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15 June 2013 21:13:57
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I just read last night in our local paper that this garden was open today at 11.am to 5 pm so sent a message to two Garden.ie members but a bit late as they were not able to get there .
This garden is only 5 mins from our house so I went at 11.30 and Admission was €5 to include light refreshments ...
I walked around the side passage and yes lovely planting but my garden is 100 ft long and this was about 50ft...the planting was lovely but not much colour very plesent Lady and I did meet an old friend and had a great chat and we will be meeting up next week so something came out of the visit..
Paper had ...... Carol....will open her award -winning garden in Bray next Saturday June 15th .........
Carols Garden has previously won Best Garden in Wicklow , Best Garden in Leinster and the Irish Garden Award..
Now all the gardens that I have visited from members here on Garden.ie you would have all won these Awards ..........so get going and enter .
No I was not dissapointed but expected so much more ..
I will put more photos up .
14 June 2013 09:20:33
Allium Siculum.
Fran this is the Allium Siculum that was growing in a window box ...it broke of with the wind as it was so tall ...I took it in side and this is the photo I took .
12 June 2013 21:52:47
Thank you JoanG
I was out playing with the camera this morning at about 9.30 and the more I take I think the better I get , I have a long way to go yet , but enjoying it
Here is one of the Fushias that JoanG gave me as a small plant last year .
12 June 2013 09:24:33
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The rain last night was good to the Poppies as it was a very fine rain and all are still standing....just a few photos of them .
11 June 2013 22:45:24
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I got a call fom Fran and we were on our way ...to this beautiful house in Enniskerry . Co Wicklow .only about 20 mins. from Fran and myself .
This Garden only opens a few times a year and I have been here 3 times and each time things look so different .So much to see it would take several times to take it all in ...3 gardeners 2 groundsmen and one other boss who I do know as he is our sons friend ..he loves his job and would you blame him living in one of the gate lodges ..
Frans photos tell all ...hope Fran is going to get us all together in August ....
10 June 2013 22:27:14
Bee landing
My son took this photo outside our front door.
09 June 2013 07:25:52
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What a beautiful day we all had yesterday in the most idyllic spot at Avoca ,Co Wicklow .
Jurgita you pulled out all the stops and it was a credit to you .
Your garden is just getting better and better every time I visit .
The People we spent the day with were also such a great bunch we had so many laughs not forgetting Violetta who was such a great help to you ....oh and not forgetting Noel who we all visited his garden another garden so so beautiful.
I am putting up some photos just to let you see some of the areas Jurgita has transformed to this her Happy Place ..
08 June 2013 07:53:22
Just the spot.
We had our Grandaughter here for the weekend and for a 11 year old she is just interested in everything and loves life to the full ....so we were out doing a bit of tidying up and I thought the one Corn plant was getting a bit big and I was going to put it into a bigger pot...but Aja suggested to put it in the ground near the glasshouse and there it went .....it fits in well ....
This is Ajas plant I was told as she loves Corn on the cob.
06 June 2013 18:45:41
Allium Siculum.
What a brilliant day again today was it is still so warm out there ...I just took a photo of this Allium Siculum so the bad start to Summer did not have any effect on this beauty.
05 June 2013 20:24:57
Fascinator
My Daughter would cringe at this photo as she is a Milliner and makes the most beautiful hats and fascinators for very famous people ...as she lives in Chester she gets a lot of orders from many people going to the Chester races such as football wags and plenty more so here is my little fascinator grown by my bare hands.....
05 June 2013 08:28:36
Some things in life are free
I just love this time of the year as there is so much colour and this Campanulia just spreads and settles into the slightest crack in a path or on a wall .
This area of our garden gets sun only early morning and late afternoon so the Tulips are always late and this year very late.
02 June 2013 23:46:46
I love this one
Alison gave me this abour 3 years ago as a little seedling and I have been looking after it since ..and yes it has paid off as this is it today .
Thank you Alison as it is from a Garden.ier who has passed away by the name of Shelsher ..
I love it .
31 May 2013 21:41:29
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One Wedensday morning I went down the garden and there were 4 heads of my lovely poppy ,so I took them up and put them into a little glass each and this morning I came down a little late to the kitchen as the Sun was shining in the kitchen window and one had burst open , A bird or something must have hit them.
30 May 2013 00:19:59
Photo taken yesterday .
Just got a phone call from a sister to tell me to spend €50 at Bloom as she had won €365 on the lotto and was just one number away from 10 million ...can you just imagine how she felt ticking the numbers ...
Thanks to the best Sister out of all 10 of us xx Jacinta.
29 May 2013 21:28:55
Iris but not growing .
I was at my Art class today and finished my latest painting I dont know if I like it or not but it took 4 weeks to do it and am glad it is finished ... it is all done with a knife and hard to get used to it .