Glasnevin | National Botanic Gardens of Ireland

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

Blog, Glasnevin

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

Blog, Glasnevin, News

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...