Growing Your Own Cut Flowers Seasonally and Sustainably with Fionnula Fallon

Name: Growing Your Own Cut Flowers Seasonally and Sustainably with Fionnula Fallon
Start: 2025-03-11T09:00:00+00:00
Location: Ballymaloe Cookery School, P25 R274

Schedule

Tue, 11 Mar, 2025 at 09:00 am

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Location

Ballymaloe Cookery School, P25 R274 | Cork, CK

Fionnuala Fallon, a National Botanic Gardens-trained horticulturist, author and gardening correspondent with the Irish Times, joins us on March 11th to deliver a full day course on sustainable cut flower growing and floristry.
Fionnuala is a flower-farmer-florist with a deep love of seasonality and sustainability whose work is inspired by the wild Irish landscape so the course will also include a module on Irish-grown foliage and foraging elements from gardens and hedgerows.
This course is focused on cut-flower growing and will cover everything from good site selection and preparation, management of pests and diseases and selection and sourcing of the best varieties for cutting - all to teach you how to create a cut flower patch that's truly seasonal.
Starting with a slideshow on the core topics above (with lots of opportunites to ask questions), Fionnuala will then lead a walk around the gardens to show your the theory in pracitice and teach you how to identify suitable material for use in flower arranging . You'll also choose some material to propagate from cuttings after lunch. We'll also visit the glasshouse to see how Eileen (a long standing member of our garden team who creates the most incredible seasonal displays at the school) grows indoors all year round. After lunch you'll sow seeds and do a few cuttings to take home and then Fionnuala will give a practical demonstration in flower arranging using sustainable techniques.
Good to Know:
As we’ll spend time walking and learning around the farm please bring suitable clothing and footwear - and allow for changeable weather!
Refreshments and Lunch included; eat alongside our students, cookery school teachers, farm staff, gardeners and visiting experts
The course is held at Ballymaloe Cookery School’s Organic Farm and Gardens in Shanagarry, Co. Cork P25 R274
Tea and Coffee with sourdough bread, jersey butter and homemade jams will be served from 8.45 am so please arrive early to sign in and get ready for a busy day of hands on learning