Upcoming Events
The Events Committee of the RHSI organise a full and varied programme of events for members and guests. Some events must be pre-booked. Early booking is advisable and bookings are taken on a first come first served basis.
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Lectures take place on Wednesday evenings and during the winter months, on Saturdays afternoons. There is a fantastic range of prominent speakers from gardeners to designers and plant specialists from Ireland and abroad who share a wealth of experience and photographs.
Floral Art demonstrations also take place on Wednesday evenings. We have many well known floral artists from Ireland and occasionally from abroad who come and show us new and innovative ways of creating flower arrangements. Gala demonstrations organised at Christmas are always a sell-out and early booking is advisable.
Day tours are organised during the summer months and are extremely popular. The tours consist of visits to gardens of which many are not usually open to the general public, as well as visits to other well known gardens. Travel is by coach leaving from south Dublin but with the option to meet the coach along the route for country members is required.
Overnight tours in Ireland and abroad are arranged each year. These are also very popular and can be booked up very quickly.
All events are listed on the programme. At times a last minute opportunity for a special garden visit or lecture may arise and these are posted on the website and sent to members by email as soon as they become available.
Venues
Lectures and floral art demonstrations are usually held in Wesley House, Leeson Park, Dublin 4. Some lectures and seminars are held in the National Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin. Full details are listed under each event.
Non members are very welcome to join our events many of which must be pre-booked. Occasionally events will be restricted to members only.
For further information please contact Deborah Bailey at events@rhsi.ie
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Oliver Schurmann live at National Botanic Gardens
We’re back!
After many years away from live, in-person talks, the RHSI is thrilled to be returning to the lecture hall with a very special evening at the National Botanic Gardens.
And we couldn’t have wished for a better speaker to mark the occasion.
Oliver Schurmann – co-owner of Mount Venus Nursery – joins us to share his deep knowledge of hardy perennial planting, shaped by German training, decades of hands-on experience, and a truly pragmatic, plant-led approach that works with the Irish climate, not against it.
Alongside running Mount Venus with his wife Liat (now celebrating 25 years at the foot of the Dublin Mountains), Oliver Schurmann is a highly regarded garden designer with multiple gold medal-winning show gardens to his name. His work spans Ireland and beyond – most recently appearing at the Ireland Pavilion at Expo 2025 in Osaka, and in a striking commissioned installation for the European premiere of Hamnet in Dublin.
This feels like a moment!
A return to gathering, learning, questioning, and being inspired together – in one of Ireland’s most beautiful horticultural settings.
If you’ve missed the buzz of a live RHSI talk, this is the one to come back for.