Frances MacDonald is our Garden Tours Manager. She trained in the National Botanic Gardens and has worked in gardening for over 35 years. She and her husband, Iain, whom she met while working in Kew Garden, live in The Bay Garden in Camolin, Co. Wexford and open their garden to the public during the summer months.
She has worked as a series consultant on RTE gardening programmes, judges at Bloom and other major horticultural show and is a columnist for The Irish Garden magazine. She has 20 years experience in organising and guiding garden tours at home, in Europe and further afield in China, South Africa and Japan where she has previously lived. She has compiled our varied and exciting programme for 2016 and leads many of the tours.