Month: November 2010
not an unexpected flower, but a trowel I had mislaid months ago!! Why are so many garden tools green????
This is what I have deleted from internet & Xmas. I have never been to a Christmas of garden.ie.
My mistake -oops!! I though the Christmas get-together was for garden.ie friends to meet up have a chat over a nice cupa/meal, swap hints and tips & anyone wishing to swap plants or seeds ect: Silly me lol! :-))
I can’t suggest any of the already suggested places, it was back in the 70’s since my visit to Powercourt. Oh! I hear you say she is over the hill 🙂 not quite yet but I can see over the top lol! ;-)) where ever is chosen I’ll be there, unless something happens I can’t travel. Public transport isn’t a problem (where there is a will there a way)
Happy gardening all.
Maybe I put this up in the wrong place so I appologise to everyone. Maureen
does callicarpa need any certain conditions to grow or will any type do
A frost morning in Waterford after a very rainy day yesterday. The light this morning along the river was very strange with the fog coming down the hill and lying on the river. It is getting so cold again this evening that I had to light the heater in the glasshouse to hopefully keep my tender bulbs safe. I have added a few photos to my November album. Mary
Very frosty here this morning but looked gorgeous from inside the house. Gone a little cloudy now and warmed up a bit. Was able to get a lot of tidying up done yesterday in the lovely sunshine. Hope to continue cleaning up today in the beds and greenhouse. It should have been done weeks ago but it was very hard to get motivated after our holiday. Even though we are back 3 weeks the time just flys by so fast. We were at a wedding in Wekford last week and that took care of the whole weekend. Years ago wedding’s lasted for one day and now they go on for three days, not that I’m complaining it was a great weekend. If it stays dry I might try and get a final cut on the grass, mind you I said that for the last two cuts.
A while back a member put up a address for a site that gives Latin pronunciation of plants trees etc… I cannot remember who it was, ……so can you please put it up here again .. I have lost it…. and I find it brilliant, as we have to learn so many names ..Thanks in advance 🙂
Kate
The wind is absolutely HOWLING around the house now.
It’s a long time since I’ve heard it so loud.
A couple of shrubs were broken just before it got dark. The wind is far worse now.
Really wet and windy to such an extent that our card group called off the game tonight — unprecedented!
very very windy here plus plenty of rain
We had a dreadful night last night. I feared for trees that are well established and I thought I need fear no more for them. I saw my Amalanchier ‘Ballerina’ fairly bend in the wind.
But this morning all was well. The pots were all over the garden but the only damage seems to have been a chicken wire fence that came away from its post and the plastic membrane on the ‘grass bank’ which came loose. Thank goodness.
Today I took a good look at my newly planted front hedge, Elaeagnus ebbingei, and the stakes on it. It is doing really well but i want it to stay that way so I staked nearly all of the remaining plants. Pat’s Privet hedge seems to be holding well (touch wood).
I also dug a hole for my Strawberry tree but then the wind kind of whipped up again and I took pity on the poor tree and decided to leave it in the greenhouse another day. I also removed grass circles from two places where I will put trees.
I have photos but they are at home and we have no internet so I am writing this in the library.
have a modest little plot, new to gardening but hope to supply fresh organic no air miles food for family , hubby got 3 chucks , they seem happy enough, eggs every day, have a small front garden hope to plant with old cottage favs, also small area for fruit trees and wild flowers,
After the storms of last night it was a relief to get out and find no serious damage done this morning, but everywhere looking a mess with leaves, heads of hydrangea and twigs everywhere.
But I did manage a while in the afternoon to plant my new "Malvern Hills" rambling rose from David Austin. Also planted a Saxifraga "Apple Pie" into the rockery. Myrtle gave it to me on my last trip south and it has a beautiful leaf.
Something very satisfying about getting even a very little done in the garden!
At last a few pics of New England. It has taken ages to upload this many .
have been having a quick look at all your journals, will talk soon. Night night
Last night the make-shift shelter I had built for the cats food was blown to pieces so I had to do a pretty quick repair before heading for work this morning. I am currently working in Tipperary Town, a mere 80 km (50 miles) from home so I have lots of opportunity to observe the weather – and this morning I was completely blown away by the beautiful sunrise over the mountains on my way down the M8 (my geography is terrible so I have no idea which mountains I was looking at!)
Isn’t it amazing how clear and clean ths sky looks afer a big storm! Haven’t been able to check for storm damage down the garden yet as it was dark when I got home but at least the Wind turbine is still standing and still has it’s full compliment of blades!
The wind also pushed the greenhouse door open a few inches so I’m grateful that there wasn’t any frost as that would really have finished off the potatoes… I’m still being optimistic….
have a modest little plot, new to gardening but hope to supply fresh organic no air miles food for family , hubby got 3 chucks , they seem happy enough, eggs every day, have a small front garden hope to plant with old cottage favs, also small area for fruit trees and wild flowers,
2morro friday should be a nice dry day to b out in garden
Can’t get a final cut at the lawn. Nothing but rain, rain, frost, rain. The lawns are saturated. Doesn’t look as if I am going to get the last cut of the season.
Two nice books arrived in this morning’s post, ideal books for winter reading with lots of bright blue skies and wonderful exotic gardens, just the books to have of a cold, miserable winter’s evening.
"The Gardens of Madeira" by Gerald Luckhurst
"Italy’s Private Gardens, An Inside View" by Helena Attlee
At the moment, I’m reading "The Curious Gardener" by Anna Pavord ("The Tulip") and finding it a very enjoyable, witty, insightful and with lots of useful information and comments. Even, surprisingly, some very honest comment of well-known gardens. At last, someone who calls it as it is rather than heaping false praise on mediocre gardens or those, as it is in this case, which are living on past glories but not keeping the garden up to standard at present.
Paddy
Here’s an interesting nursery. Check out the booklist.
https://www.shadydealsnursery.com/
Paddy
My husband is still apologising for putting my bizzy lizzy outside for some "air" and forgot to take it in. Killed by the frost. Gave it a little trim and god gave me a little hope, 5 green leafs beneath all the dead leaves. Hope it will grow again, looks positive though
Thanks Noel. Seems a great site.
I was half listening to Mooney on the radio yesterday and I think a woman said the temp is to go down to -8 over the next few nights. I brought the rest of the geranium’s that I had in pots into the greenhouse and put them in the small plastic greenhouse that I bought in Aldi’s last year for extra protection hope it works. Still to wet to get the final cut on the grass.