John is joined by Diarmuid Gavin show ambassador for Garden Show Ireland to chat about the show and the recently completed Coronation Garden Diarmuid completed.  Garden Show Ireland returns to Antrim Castle Gardens The three-day gardening extravaganza takes place from 16-18 June 2023 Now in its 19th year, the show runs from Friday 16 – Sunday 18 June and is expected to attract some 30,000 visitors across the weekend. Northern Ireland’s largest gardening festival, the horticulture showcase is bigger and better than ever before with a great programme featuring a range of horticultural experts. Taking inspiration from acclaimed garden designer Diarmuid Gavin’s magical, mechanical Jubilee Garden, this year’s show is adopting ‘Pure Imagination’ as its theme for 2023 as weird and wonderful exuberance meets gardening excellence. Diarmuid and distinguished plantsman Paul Smyth get potty about pots with an enormous co-designed plant pot display, a centrepiece of the show that must be seen to be believed. Serving up plenty of ideas and inspiration for your own garden, green-fingered veterans and budding gardeners can soak up expert advice from the industry’s brightest, uniting with specialist plant growers to celebrate this year’s bloom and share creative insights across a range of Workshops, panel discussions and masterclasses on topics ranging from flower farming and growing your own produce to pots, planting and gardening for small spaces. Cultivating knowledge, Diarmuid will be joined by gardening extraordinaires Marie Staunton, Paul Smyth, Michael Kelly, Biruk Hailu, Klaus Laitenberger, Geoff Stebbings and Brian McCarthy for panel discussions on topics including gardening for health, food empathy, zero waste, indestructible plants, how to achieve year-round colour and more. For the amateur, take part in masterclasses and come away with the inspiration and know-how to create your own dream garden, and for the novice, dust off those gardening utensils for some hands-on workshops guided by experienced organic gardeners and innovators.  Klaus Laitenberger will host a series of demonstrations on seed growing and propagation while the Northern Ireland Flower and Foliage Association (NIFFA) will deliver workshops on foraging for table arrangements, sustainable floristry techniques, wearable floral creations and more. Show ambassador Diarmuid Gavin said: “I’m so excited about this year’s Garden Show Ireland which is going to be different to any other Show" Tickets for Garden Show Ireland cost £10 and can be purchased online at https://gardenshowireland.com Children under 16 go free. There will be a blog post on this episode very soon on my website. This blog and previous blogs along with all podcast episodes are available on my    Website :https://mastermygarden.com/     If there is any topic you would like covered in future episodes, please let me know.    Please like and follow Master My Garden on the following channels     Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mastermygarden/  Instagram @Mastermygarden https://www.instagram.com/mastermygarden/  Twitter:https://twitter.com/tweetsbyMMG   or email [email protected]     Until next week   Happy gardening   John  Support the show