WATCH The sixth Limerick Garden Festival will bring garden talks and high-profile experts to the city this June 15

The sixth Limerick Garden Festival will bring garden talks and high-profile experts to the city this June 15, 2025. Picture: Olena Oleksienko/ilovelimerick

Limerick Garden Festival is celebrating its sixth year with an exciting programme of events coming to the Limerick Milk Market this June 15

Limerick Garden Festival is now in its 6th year and is this year and organisers are excited to bring, for the first time, a Cookery demonstration with Chef Tom Flavin in addition to a packed schedule of Garden talks by high-profile experts, including the garden, craft, and food market featuring stalls from all over Ireland.

The sixth Limerick Garden Festival at Limerick Milk Market will feature an exciting plant, garden & food market with traders from all over Ireland, all-day garden expert talks and many opportunities for gardeners, their families and friends to enjoy, engage and experience all things gardening. Suitable for all types of gardeners, young and old, the festival will feature ornamental & organic gardening.

Limerick Garden Festival will be held on Sunday, 15th June at the Milk Market, Limerick. The festival aims to serve the entire gardening community and their families and friends by offering a specialist garden fair and fun & educational entertainment in a horticultural manner, creating a great family day out.

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This year we feature award-winning Chef Tom Flavin, who has a keen interest in training and developing the next generation of Culinary Artists in addition to our core educational Horticultural talks and workshops for Adults and Children on topics including Mental Wellbeing, Gardening with Children, Hands-on Outdoor arts and Community Growing.

Speaking about this year’s festival, Jim McNamara told I Love Limerick, “ There’s a real mix this year with a particular focus on wellbeing, on biodiversity, and on the fact that gardening is there for everybody. It is very doable, it need not be perfect, and anybody with any little bit of soil or even a window box can begin to use the outdoors and in the process, get touching the soil, improve your own health, and increase biodiversity. Do your little bit for climate change as well.”

Mr McNamara explained the 2025 Limerick Garden Festival will feature events for gardening for children, designing your own landscape for wellbeing, and noted that Chef Tom Flavin will take part in this year’s festival, noting, “We also have particular focus on food, and we are so lucky to have one of the specialist food experts of the country at the moment here with us.”

Chef Tom Flavin said he hopes to see people come to the festival to learn a thing or two, he said, “ I’m delighted to be part of this year’s Limerick Garden Festival on June 15. I’d love to see as many people as possible come along. I’m going to learn loads and loads of tips; I have a little bit of a garden out the back myself; I love to grow my own produce. I love to use it in cooking. There’s nothing better than going out, picking some salad, picking some berries, picking anything, any fruit that you’re growing, and believe me, it is easy to grow.”

This year’s festival will feature national and international experts and stalls from all over Ireland at the historic Milk Market, Limerick city, attracting visitors from the city, county and beyond.

Tom Flavin spoke about his plans for the festival, from healthy drinks to “funky salads”, saying, “I’m going to be making some strawberry kombucha. We’re going to be doing some really funky salads. We’re going to be doing some products that you can use for your lunch, for your dinner.

“There’s going to be loads and loads of tips, lots of chats. I’m really looking forward to meeting so many people on the day and, um, picking up some tips myself from the expert gardeners that are going to be here.”

Limerick Garden Festival is run by the Limerick Market Trustees, a Non-Profit, Community Organisation registered in 1852 to provide Markets, promote local food and offer trading opportunities for startup businesses & local micro businesses.

Pictures: Olena/ilovelimerick