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Posts by Brian Browne:

Early 2021

Free online course coming up:

I’m be running a lunchtime session focussed on dried flowers: Growing, harvesting and preserving them. Click here to book. 

Thanks to Westmeath Libraries for sponsoring these FREE events!

It’s all about the flowers now, I’m in the throes of seed sowing, but there are lots of flowers to pick also!

If you’d like to buy my beautiful fragrant and local flowers there are lots of options: you can contact me at 087 2222562 to arrange delivery locally.

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You can also buy bunches at Neighbourfood: Neighbourfood Mullingar and Neighbourfood Ballymahon

I drop a few bunches to Nuts & Grains on Thursday or Friday – I’ll post delivery there on my Instagram story. 

Also I’m delighted to have enough extra to supply 2 other floral creators – It’s so cool to see what they create with my blooms. 

Athlone: A Room in Bloom

Dublin 15 and surrounds: Heather and Harebells

Spring bouquet

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Back to normal!

So Flower Week has come and gone – how was it for you? While our own small local event was worthwhile and enjoyable for all concerned, I think it’s safe to say that lessons were learned for 2020 & beyond. Our next outing is a trip to Russborough House in Blessington, for a collaborative effort with some of the members of the Flower Farmers of Ireland.

We’ll be there as part of the third annual RHSI Garden Show, which promises to be a great day out for anyone even remotely interested in Gardening. There will be talks from horticulture & environmental experts, Garden Design Clinics (separate Booking required) and your ticket will give you access to the regular attractions at Russborough as well as a 25% discount on a tour of the House itself or visit the National Birds of Prey centre, where a special demonstration will take place on the day.

Irish Flower Week is here!

To mark the occasion of the very first Irish Flower Week, Big Sky Flowers is joining forces with Conicker Farm to run a pop-up Flower Bar at the Gingerbread Café, Blackhall, Mullingar, on Saturday the 6th of July from 10.00AM to 12.00PM. What’s a flower bar you ask? Well, we haven’t entirely worked out all the details yet but, it’s, like, a bar where you buy flowers… 😆

Excellent food and drinks (including some special florally-themed ones) will be available as usual from the talented and hard-working staff of the Gingerbread Café.

And if you sign up for one of our ‘flowers for a month’ deals on the day you’ll get a 25% discount!

Irish Flower Week is about promoting locally grown cut flowers, and the people who grow them. Imported flowers = exported revenue! Plus most imports are liberally treated with pesticides during their growth, refrigerated during transport, and clock up thousands of transport miles in planes, ships and trucks to get from their point of origin. So buying from an Irish Grower is good for the local economy AND the environment.