About | Botanic Home & Garden Centre Cork

History

Botanic Home & Garden Centre was first opened in Fota Retail Village in Carrigtwhill, Co. Cork in early 2018 by Jody Smith. Jody is a horticulture graduate (The National Botanic Gardens of Ireland, Dublin), with over 25 years’ experience working in the horticulture and retail trades. His aim was to build a modern and vibrant garden centre which caters to both contemporary and traditional home and garden styles, and that has excellent customer service at the heart of the business. Jody built a great team of diverse yet like-minded horticulturalists and gardening enthusiasts, whose hard work has resulted in Botanic Home & Garden Centre being a destination retail outlet in East Cork. In early 2020 Jody opened a sister store in Drinagh Retail Park in Blackhorse, Co. Wexford and put another team together, led by our Wexford Manager Luke Hennessey, who ensure a similar high standard of customer service and a wonderful range of gardening products are available in our new store.

In both stores, Botanic Home & Garden Centre has a wide range of plants for both seasonal colour and year-round elegance. We also stock a wide range of BBQ’s and outdoor furniture, as well as other garden accessories, to enable you to make the most of your outdoor living space. And if you are looking for that perfect gift for birthdays, weddings, Christmas and other special occasions, look no further: we have pretty pots, chic mirrors, fabulous frames and perfect plant stands amongst our wide range of striking gift options.

Botanic Home & Garden Centre is located alongside Meadows & Byrne in both locations, as well as being beside Bakestone Café in the Cork store and Kelly’s Café in the Wexford store – so why not make a day trip of it!

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FAQ’s

Cork store: We can deliver items within the Cork region, the charge will vary depending on your location. Please ask a member of our team for more details.

Wexford store: We can arrange delivery with a local provider within the Wexford region.

Nationwide delivery can be arranged where required – please ask a member of our team.

We can certainly help you. If you bring along some photos of your garden to one of our horticulturalists in store, it will also help us better advise you on what will suit the space.

Yes, we are happy to help you assemble your items, and we can also arrange delivery of the assembled items. Please ask our staff for more details. Charges will apply.

We have a large variety of trees and hedging options on display in our outdoor area. We specialise in large, specimen trees which make big impacts in your garden. Come and see our full range in-store.

Depending on seasonal availability, we are happy to order in plants not currently available in-store.

Yes, you can purchase Botanic Home & Garden Centre gift vouchers in-store or by phone, just ask a member of our staff. These make ideal gifts when you are uncertain which of our wonderful range of plants and gifts to give your loved one. Please note that vouchers for our Cork and Wexford stores are not inter-changeable and need to be spent at the store in which they are purchased.

Yes, you can spend your One4All gift vouchers in both the Cork and Wexford stores.

We can certainly discuss your office planting requirements with you and help you choose appropriate planting for small to large office spaces.

Yes! We are very aware that there can be a lot of plastic containers used for the plants. We return much of our plastic trays to one of our suppliers, who washes and re-uses them for new plants. You can do the same (do wash them out first). Furthermore, most of the plastic pots we use are recyclable, just look for the recycling symbol on the plastic, and then you can pop them in with your household recycling waste. You can also upcycle the pots and make something new. Or you can hold on to them for the next time you buy some of our range of seeds and bulbs, and propagate them in these pots. You can then pop the pots into ceramic containers – see our full range of beautiful stone and ceramic containers in-store.