Christmas Decoration Workshop

Helen Battigan is holding one of her excellent workshops on 12th December, details as above. The enrolment form can be downloaded here. Places are limited and are filling up fast, so anybody interested should contact Carmel Ryan to secure a place as soon as possible.

Cuttings Afternoon - 23rd October, 2.00pm

The Cuttings Afternoon will be held at Nicholas & Carmel Ryan's house.

This is a great time to be taking cuttings to increase your plant stock or to grow plants for sale at our Plant Sale in May next year.
The list of plants that can be propagated from cuttings is endless, roses, lavender, hydrangeas, fuschias, penstemon, pelargoniums, osteospermum, coleus.
Some of our 'expert' members will be on hand to show you how to take cuttings, prepare them, plant them and look after them.
These afternoons are great social occasions, why not come along and have a go!

September 2013 Newsletter

The September 2013 Newsletter is now available to view or download here

Cutting Afternoon to be Held Mid October

We are planning to hold our annual "Cutting Afternoon" sometime in mid October. this is a great opportunity to learn how to take cuttings and care for them. In previous years this event has proved to be very popular so we will set the venue when we have a better indication of likely numbers of people attending. Members who are interested in attending, please phone Eamonn on 053 9376908 before 7.00pm (Eamonn goes to bed when it goes dark so he can be up at first light to get out into the garden) Alternatively you can email him ritaeam@gmail.com

General Meeting 17th October 8.00pm Redmonds

Geoff Stebbings will be giving a talk on raised beds plus he will be giving hints on how to improve your presentation of entries for the show. this promises to be a really good evening

62nd Bunclody Horticultural Society Show - Major Awards

The following are the major prizes. Details of winners of all classes

will follow and hopefully you will be able to use them. Many thanks,

Eamonn

Bunclody Horticultural Society are delighted with their 62nd Annual

Show. It went off brilliantly. The Society would like to thank all who

participated and those who turned out to steward and helped with the

setting up. No mean trick. Many thanks also goes to James Murphy and

the BOM of Bunclody VEC for their marvellous cooperation. Thanks also

to our many sponsors and advertisers, without whom the Show would

never have gotten off the ground.

After-Show Committee meeting Thurs, Sept 12, Redmonds, 8pm. Robert

Miller, Garden Judge, and Ian Hodges, photographer of gardens, will

present an evening showing photos of gardens visited and Robert will

talk us through the various attractive garden features. Thurs, Sept

19, Redmonds, 8pm.

2013 Garden Competition Results

Best Ornamental Garden, Over 1/4acre, 

1st, Sheelagh and Liam O’Leary.

Jt 2nd, Maura Kavanagh & Majella Kelly. 

Best Ornamental Garden Under1/4 acre

acre, 1, Maureen Goodbody; 2, Eunice O’Connor; 3, Mary Hogan. Best

Country Garden, 1, Brian & Mary Gilsenan; 2, Erika Marten; 3, Monica

Murphy.

Becker Perpetual Trophy, 

Sheelagh & Liam O’Leary. 

First-time entrant with highest points 

Majella Kelly. 

Person with highest points who haspreviously entered but never won, 

Carmel & Nicholas Ryan.

Commendations for Special Features, 

Monica Murphy (3), Matthew O’Leary, Bernie Deane, Ann Raleigh. 

Best Community Garden, 

Day Care Centre. 

Best Private Window Box, 

1, Sheila Rothwell; 2, Erika Marten;

3, Ann Nolan. 

Best Business Window Box, 

1, Meadowside B&B; 

2, Redmonds. 

Rory Murphy Trophy (in window boxes), 

Sheila Rothwell.

62nd Annual Show Trophy results: 

Society’s Cup, most points for flowers, 

Geoff Stebbings. 

Conway Cup, 

Margaret Tully. 

Rose of the Show; Bank of Ireland Cup, 

Lorraine Kinsella, 

Best Floral arrangement; Collier Cup, 

Sheila Kirwan, 

Most points in fruit; Weston Trophy, Heidi Fortune, 

Best exhibit in fruit;  Erika Marten Trophy, 

Geoff Stebbings,

Best Exhibit in Uncommon Fruit; Society’s Cup, Most points in Veg,

Geoff Stebbings; 

Hemmingway Trophy, Best in Veg, 

Geoff Stebbings;

Society’s Cup, Home & Dairy, 

Vera Wilson; 

Austin Gilbert Cup, Most Meritorious Home & Dairy, 

Sinead Ryan; 

Lucetta Collier Cup, Knitting & Needlework, 

Mary Ann Nolan; 

Special Prize in Needlework, 

Freda Sangrai.

AIB Cup, Senior Craft, Jimmy Murphy; 

Mary Wall Beck Trophy, Art, 

Lynne Crowe. 

Society’s Cup, Photography, 

Lorraine Kinsella; 

Macra na Feirme

Cup, Agri, 

Bertie Warren; 

Thom Deacon Memorial Trophy, Agri, 

Bertie Warren; 

George T Lewis Cup, Most Meritorious in Flowers, Fruit, Veg & Agri produce, 

Geoff Stebbings. 

Riverview Cup, Home & Dairy, Senior Art and Crafts, 

Jimmy Murphy.

Junior/Youth Section: 

J Kavanagh Cup, Floral, 

Laura O’Brien; 

Patricia Cork Memorial Cup, Baking, 

Amy Smyth; 

TJ Collier Cup, Junior Craft,

Moya Rothwell; 

Eileen Black Cup, Handwriting, 

Emma Cummings; 

Joe

Anderson Cup, Most Meritorious in Youth Section, 

Patrick White Murphy.

62nd Bunclody Show & Exhibition Schedule & Entry Form

The schedule for this years show can be viewed and downloaded by clicking here

The entry form can be downloaded here

Bunclody Horticultural Society Show - 24th August 2013

The Annual Buncoldy Horticultural Society Show will be held on Saturday 24th August from 2.30 - 5.00pm in the Bunclody Vocational School Irish Street, Bunclody, Co Wexford. A celebration of the richness of traditional crafts and skills including Cookery, Crafts, Agricultural and Horticultural produce, and showcasing the best Wexford has to offer.

A family fun day including the very popular Art exhibition from local and national artists, with junior and senior sections in art, photography, short-story and writing competitions. We will be exhibiting a variety of crafts from patchwork to knitting and sewing, many beautiful creations can be viewed including patchwork quilts and a special children’s section, regarded as especially important because it encourages young people to take an interest and get involved in gardening, cooking, and especially growing.

Sharing top billing for our green fingers enthusiasts is our well-established flower section, entries always draw gasps of admiration from spectators, with the beautiful displays of cut flower arrangements and displays. The Home Produce section guarantees many feasts for the eye in this ever-popular section with stiff competition in all classes.

Gorey Bee Keepers will exhibit their bee keeping skills and you’ll get to meet a Queen bee! So don’t miss all the fun of this year’s show with exhibitions/ demonstrations/ tea /coffee and a fun filled day.

It’s a fantastic family day out with lots to see with an endless displays of top class cookery and craft, Remember to bring friends and family along for a great day out and we really look forward to meeting you there!

To find out more join us on Thursday 15^th August for a general meeting in Redmonds (pub  Main Street Bunclody, Co Wexford  at 8.00pm. New members welcome!

Full details on bunclody-hs.blogspot.ie/

Garden Competition 2013 - Entry Form available for download in "Garden Competition 2013" page

Plant Sale Set Up 24th May - 8.30pm

Set-up time for Plant Sale, Friday, 24th May, is put back to 8.30pm. All Members who are available are welcome to come along and help.

Please bring along any plants you can donate to the society and ensure that they are well presented and labelled ready for sale.

Plant Sale. 25th May

Burtown House & Gardens, Wednesday 15th May

Our next outing is to Burtown House & gardens, Athy, Co Kildare. We will have an extended visit to the gardens, have tea & coffee there then travel on to Kildare Outlet Shopping Village for a late luch.
The trip will be on a car share basis, leaving from Church of Holy Trinity, Bunclody at 0930hrs. Non members are welcome to come along and join us.

Talk - Jeremy Hill Thursday 25th April

Jeremy Hill from Monksgrange Gardens and Norman Gallery will be giving a talk on Thursday 25th April at 8.00pm in Redmond's. We will be visiting Monksgrange in June. We will be delighted to see all members at this talk now that the evenings are getting lighter. Non members are also welcome.

Thursday 14th March 2013 - Flower Photography Made Easy! Redmonds, 3.00pm, Main St, Bunclody

Got a digital camera? Want to take brilliant flower photos? Les Knowles is giving a short talk, illustrated with a display of photographs, that will help you take photos like an expert! Bring your camera along if you need any advice about what it can do. Refreshments will be served. This will be the first of our afternoon get togethers and we look forward to seeing as many members and friends as possible.

This meeting will give you a real opportunity to get to know your camera and how to get the best out of it before we go on our evening outing in July [date to be confirmed] to Bay Garden, Camolin to photograph some of the beautiful plants there.

Officers Meeting Thursday 28th February 20.00hrs

Just a timely reminder to committee members about this Thursdays meeting. Eamonn has put together the agenda that can be seen/downloaded here

Bunclody Library Gardening Talks

The programme of talks to be given by Frances and Ian MacDonald at Bunclody Library is now available to view/download by clicking here

The Morning Gardening Club, Springmount Garden Centre

The programme of talks to be given by Frances MacDonald is now available. Click here to see/download the programme

Table Quiz - Wednesday 6th February

Our annual table quiz takes place this Wednesday at 8.00pm in the Millrace Hotel.
Further details are here

What's On

The What's on page has been updated with events planned for the first half of the year.