Tickets to Bloom Flower Show

The BLOOM Flower Show, organised by Bord Bia is a showcase for the very best in gardening in Ireland and takes place in the Phoenix Park, Dublin over the June Bank Holiday weekend each year. If you are looking for inspiration for your own garden or simply a great day out, then make sure you get to BLOOM!


As part of our association with Bord Bia, we are delighted to offer you a chance to book discounted tickets online (see below). We also have a FREE Draw in the garden centre to win tickets to the flower show - come in and see if you can be one of the lucky winners!

Hope to see you soon

As part of our Association with Bord Bia we are delighted to offer you a chance to buy discounted tickets to the BLOOM Flower Show.

To get your discounted tickets you need to 
book on line before the event, and use the promotional code GCC16 , to get an extra €2 discount off either the early bird or advance ticket price to Bloom. This offer cannot be used in conjunction with any other offer.

For inspiration, education and entertainment, the place to be this June Bank Holiday weekend is the colourful Bloom Garden Festival in the Phoenix Park, Dublin. Organised by Bord Bia, this year’s event is five days long (9am to 6pm) and it takes place from Thursday 2nd June to Monday 6th June 2016.

Please note kids go free as per previous years! Log on to www.bloominthepark.com for more details on Show Gardens, Features, free seminars and entertainment.

If you don’t fancy driving, use the train and avail of the courtesy shuttle bus from Heuston station to the 70 acre Bloom site in the centre of the Phoenix Park.

We're very excited to have West Country Lupins at Ardcarne Garden Centre. These are a new range of superior hybrids with large tapering spikes of lightly fragrant flowers in a range of wonderful colours. The growth is especially strong and upright which means that staking is not required. And they flower for ages in the summer garden.

We've a range of varieties and sizes at the moment but HURRY they are going fast!

Job of the week: Support clematis

Clematis are starting into full growth now and will rapidly clamber up supports, winding their leaf stalks around wires or canes to cling on. So make sure that there are adequate structures in place as soon as you plant: fix trellis or wires to fences or walls, making sure they are securely fastened. Gently tease out the stems towards their support and tie in loosely to encourage them in the right direction.