# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Rare and Special Plant Fair 2025 
- **Event Start and End Date**: Sun, 11 May, 2025 at 10:00 am – Sun, 11 May, 2025 at 04:00 pm
- **Event Description**: Date: Sunday 11th May 2025
Time: 10am-4pm
Location: Mount Congreve Gardens
Price: Admission to the plant fair is FREE. If you wish to visit the gardens be sure to book online for the best value at www.mountcongreve.com. Kids under 16 enter the gardens for free!

The Rare and Special Plant Fair, sponsored by Bord Bia, will be held on Sunday, 11th May 2025, at Mount Congreve Gardens. This year marks the 25th anniversary of this prestigious event, and we are thrilled that Mount Congreve has been chosen as the host. This will also be the final year of Bord Bia’s sponsorship of the event.

Up to 40 Specialist Nurseries from all over Ireland will be on site to offer and showcase beautiful, unusual and hard to find varieties of plants for sale, as well as giving expert advice on care and growing.

The full list of exhibitors will be confirmed soon.

As part of the event, Elmer Dool will be hosting a special talk titled “In My Father’s Footsteps” at 11:00 AM in the Ambrose Room. Ticket prices €5.00 for members and €6.50 for non-members. Proof of membership will be required. Tickets can be booked HERE.
The Rare & Special Plant Fair was established in 2001 to ensure that the gardening public has an opportunity to purchase rare, unusual and special plants at reasonable prices, and to ensure that nurseries and breeders of these plants in Ireland have an opportunity to present them for sale.

At the same time, the Fair aims to provide an opportunity for visitors to visit a private garden that they might not otherwise visit. The fair is an annual event, always held on the second Sunday in May. Over the years the event has grown in stature and reputation with the fair being hosted in some of Ireland’s most notable and beautiful private gardens, and more recently in public and state gardens of note, including Fancroft Millhouse Gardens, Roscrea, Lakeview Gardens, Co Cavan, Kilfane Glen, Thomastown, Co. Kilkenny, Anne’s Grove Gardens, Co Cork, Castleforbes, Co Longford, Farmleigh, Phoenix Park, Dublin, St. Anne’s Park, Raheny, Russborough House, Co. Wicklow, Killruddery House, Co. Wicklow Airfield Gardens and Farm, Dublin, Burtown House, Athy, Co. Kildare, Glin Castle, Glin, Co. Limerick, Airfield, Dundrum, Dublin, Fota House and Arboretum, Borris House, Carlow and Huntington Castle Carlow in 2024.
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/waterford/rare-and-special-plant-fair-2025/200028040431346
- **Event Categories**: kids, festivals
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 106

## Ticket Details

- **Ticket URL**: http://facebook.com/200028040431346?utm_source=AllEvents.in&utm_medium=event-discovery-platform&utm_campaign=waterford-events

## Event venue details

- **city**: Waterford
- **state**: WD
- **country**: Ireland
- **location**: Mount Congreve , Waterford, Ireland X91 PX05
- **lat**: 52.24095
- **long**: -7.21909
- **full address**: Mount Congreve , Waterford, Ireland X91 PX05, Ireland

## Event Organizer details

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- **organizer**: Mount Congreve Gardens (https://allevents.in/org/mount-congreve-gardens/8483259)

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Sun, 11 May, 2025 at 10:00 am
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** Mount Congreve , Waterford, Ireland X91 PX05, Ireland
- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** Mount Congreve Gardens
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
  - **A:** kids, festivals
- **Q**: Where can I find ticket details about Rare and Special Plant Fair 2025  ?
  - **A:** You can find ticket details about this event on AllEvents.

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