When Life’s All A Bit Mulch

Sowing the seeds… SAT24AUG24

ne of the most heartening sights at The Dahlia Show down in St Patrick’s this year was the amount of young people in attendance.

Maybe they’d been dragged along by smart parents, but as the two cousins above made their way from table to table, they clearly knew their flowers.

And where their ridiculous names came from.

Which is more than can be said for GG, who’s happy to simply admire the incredible blooms on display. Especially those blooms that look like they would normally be found at the bottom of the ocean. Or attacking Spock and co in outer space.

Organised by The Delgany & District Horticultural Society, no one’s quite sure how long this annual event – or its summer twin, The Rose Show – has been running, but it’s got to be somewhere in and around the 100 year mark.

And back in 1985, it even had a cutting bloom into its own little society, when The Greystones Flower Club grew from an idea planted by the late, great John Markham, among others.

Remind us to dig deeper into those roots one fine day…

The winners podium today was dominated by Trevor Stevenson and Niall Coveney, with Christy White, Joan Gregg, John Harford, Noel Cavanagh, Richard Lowe, Carol O’Riordan and E. DeSouza also coming up smelling of award-winning roses.

For now though, we managed to corner two of the ringleaders behind The Delgany Horticultural & Agricultural Society, Catherine Coveney and Trevor Stephenson, for a quick ramble chat…

You can find out more about the Delgany & District Horticultural Society on their Facebook page here, check out last year’s Dahlia Show here, or get in touch with the bould Catherine on email here.