Month: July 2011

I always end up looking terrible in them 🙁

I have 3 plants from dahlia seeds what Deborah sent to me.Would be more,if someone who name i won’t call,would take trys off each other when brought them to heated glasshouse in early spring.

  This one is first,all others still in buds.Love colour,and i did respect something pink,like Fran had,,but this is much better.

Really glad I bought the seeds of these this year. Just starting to flower now, fine strong, bushy plants.

I am actually grateful for the changeable weather we have had for the last week – I mentioned in my Journal last Sunday that I had planted the latest bit of lawn – and was worried that nothing would come up because of the diesel that got spilt in that area – but lo and behold! I couldn’t believe my eyes – looking down the garden there was a definite greenish tinge  – I am amazed!

Love them!

guess what it is!

so as to have quirky garden features…. honestly!

I was trying to wait until the whole thing is flowering. But the flowers on the bottom are shrivelling before the top ones come out. Very beautiful. New one to my garden. Hope it will be here for a long time. I think I got this from Terra Nova?

Went to the corinthians garden festival today, total disappointment, not too bad at €5 to get in, but nothing much to see. only bought 2 plants a dierama – looks like merlin, waiting for flower to open, but guy selling it did not know. also bought a yellow echinacea might be harvest moon going by pic on web but he did not know this one either. anybody any ideas?

Occasionally while dead-heading I accidentally brush against bees seeking pollen. Lovely and furry to touch. This one was lost in his own little world today.

This is Cecile Brunner a lovely rose with the palest pink shade.  It has masses of little flowers which are about the round of an egg cup and it just sprawls through anything that grows around it. 

Bought this late last year and happy to see it flowering again after the cold winter.  It has a great scent also.  Called Love Story

Saw first time it in Violetas garden last year,and of course when i saw bulbs this spring i got for my self them too.And now atlast they flowering! But…it look like ‘Red Dutch’ and same time not,,but nice any way :))

The day here looked quite unpromising with mizzly rain and overcast but after lunch it picked up. Decided that I had to make an inroad into the plants in waiting had four pots of orange alstroemeria, Kates Heliothrope that the rabbits nipped off, agastache sangria and abuliton from Rachel to name but a few. Decided that these were all going into terracotta pots to go on the steps from the terrace. Discovered not much compost so set off to try and buy some infuriating none to be had no garden centre open, none at garages and we have no Woodies or similar in Monaghan town. Normally I mix up 1 trug of compost to one of soil and today I planned to add some 5 year rotted horse manure as Johnny had emptied out the pit that it’s stored in. In the end I mixed up peat that we’d been given with the soil and rotted manure and planted up the pots topped them off with grit. Swept down the steps decided to cut back  the seed heads of the creeping plant, removed poppies that had gone over and then positioned the pots on the landing and steps hope that the Alstroemeria starts to thrive bit pale in the leaf put Rachel’s Agastache Sangria into one planter with a small lavender and a little purple leafed geranium seedling, also in this arrangement of pots is an Agastache I bought in Birr and Heuchera Plum Pudding, after the summer I’ll need to find permanent homes for these plants. Then spent a couple of hours deadheading and weeding along the south bed, so peaceful with the dogs for company and the ducks splashing about on the pond. It’s amazing the difference it makes to plants with the deadheads removed but it is so tedious on the campanula. This year both the white and blue campanula have done really well and Campanula Elizabeth just keeps going, have finished deadheading the white and started the blue then I’ll tackle Elizabeth as she looks a bit dowdy at the minute. Cut out the Astrantia  flowers that have turned brown finished Ruby Wedding have to finish Major Buckland. Hope tomorrow is another reasonable day as there is so much to do. 

Am hoping this combination of plants will put on a show now they’ve been released from waiting. Must post up a picture of the plant on the bank to see if I can get a name for it.

Earlier in the year Martin B sent me a packet of Rustic Rudbeckia seeds only got about 5 plants but they are now opening and I really like them bright and sunny so thanks Martin for the seeds think they look great against the Verbena Rigida.

I became a Mammy again the other day. I think my baby has put on at least 1 gram since then. Still skinny though! He needs a good big snail to munch on.

I saw here some nice gladiolus already flowering.Can’t wait for my one.Got it last year from Mount venus nursery.Really hardy gladiolus.

I bought this shrub a few years ago on a whim as I knew nothing about it, but I liked the look of it and it was unusual. It is a strong grower and mine would have been bigger but for an accidental collision which set it back a bit three years ago. Its almost ready to flower and when it does I will post some photos. The flowers are white and scented and it has peeling bark which I really like. It has sailed through the rough winters and its a shrub I would recommend.

Rachel it’s got silvery grey leaves there is a bigger photo in July photos