{"id":10267,"date":"2014-07-26T22:45:30","date_gmt":"2014-07-26T21:45:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greensideup.ie\/?p=10267"},"modified":"2019-03-14T19:46:45","modified_gmt":"2019-03-14T19:46:45","slug":"carlow-garden-festival-opens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greensideup.ie\/carlow-garden-festival-opens\/","title":{"rendered":"Carlow Garden Festival Opens – We’re in for a treat!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Carol & Dee<\/p><\/div>\n
Carlow Garden Festival has begun and what a fantastic way to open it with none other than the queen of plants-women, Carol Klein. If I gush a bit during this post I hope you’ll forgive me as having spent two days at local garden related events with another nine in store, it’s difficult not to!<\/p>\n
Carol’s cat<\/p><\/div>\n
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The ballroom in the Woodford Dolman hotel in Carlow was packed with young and old who’d come to see and hear Carol talk about her cottage garden at Glebe House in Devon and we weren’t disappointed.<\/p>\n
Carol is inspirational and so very down to earth and the way she talked us through her slides with her friendly Lancashire lilt clearly showed us all that her enthusiasm of plants and nature isn’t just for the telly.<\/p>\n
Carol lives and breathes this lifestyle and her warmth and humour shone through. If anyone there hasn’t been watching Gardeners World up until now, I’m sure they all will be in future. Despite the exhausting schedule she found herself under since arriving in our county, Carol took the time to chat, sign books and autographs, as well as answer any questions thrown at her and have her photo taken with whoever requested one during the evening.<\/p>\n