Eco Christmas Craft Market
Eco Christmas Craft Market, Glasnevin. Saturday 10th and Sunday 11th December, from 10am to 4pm. Our traditional Christmas Craft Market returns to the Gardens. A pinch of Christmas magic will be cast over the stunning surroundings, with over 70 stalls both indoors...
Science Week 2022 at the National Botanic Gardens
Join us for Science Week at the National Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin from November 13th to 20th! We have a packed schedule of talks, demonstrations, tours, botanical art workshops, and interactive experiments to investigate and celebrate plant science! Our series of...
Halloween at Glasnevin – 23rd October!
Halloween at Glasnevin is back for 2022! Get ready for lots of plant based spookiness this Halloween, starting with our Harvest Display on Saturday the 22nd of October. This fabulously designed display will showcase not only the diversity of pumpkins, squash and...
National Tree Day: Bark Life Trail
Have you ever looked at a tree’s bark and wondered what it’s for? Well for National Tree Day 2022 follow our Bark Life trail 2022 trail around the gardens to discover some interesting facts about bark and discover the many uses that people around the world have found...
Book Launch ‘The life of Charles Frederick Ball (1879-1915), botanist and horticulturist’, Seamus O’Brien and Brian Willan
In 1915 the Irish Times called Charles Frederick Ball ‘one of the best known botanists and horticulturists in Ireland’. He had been Assistant Keeper of the Royal (now National) Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin, editor of the journal Irish Gardening, and a noted plant...