Highlights

The Cookery Stage – dishing out demonstrations by some of Ireland’s more tasty food-makers, including Neven Maguire, Catherine…

The Cookery Stage– dishing out demonstrations by some of Ireland's more tasty food-makers, including Neven Maguire, Catherine Fulvio and Derry Clarke.

Living green roofand green walls at "Ag Cuir Báistí", a show garden by Anú Green Designs (Rita Higgins and Paul Quirke) from Cork.

Sinuous, sculptural loungersmade from ethically sourced European and English oak, by Simon Austen, at his cousin Tim Austen's "The Garden Lounge". See www.simonausten.com.

The Garden School's stand in the "Be Free" Floral Display Marquee where you can make your own pot from recycled newspaper, fill it with Irish compost, and sow a nasturtium seed to bring home.

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The Garden Stage, as well as hosting the usual horticultural suspects (Gerry Daly, Helen Dillon et al), will have floral art demonstrationsby Maurice Wynne of Mad Flowers, tips on allergy-free gardening by Ciaran Kirwan, and environmental advice from Duncan Stewart.

"The Seven Woods" garden, the winner in RTÉ's Supergarden competition, created by Rosa O'Connell, veterinary surgeon turned garden designer.

Extreme flower arranging. Three Gates Nursery's wedding sequence tableauin the Floral Display Marquee. From hen party to marriage ceremony to honeymoon – all in flowers and foliage.