Month: July 2012

Last Friday we visited another Open Garden on the Clew Bay Garden Trail.  I just loved this Pleached Lime feature – in fact I loved the whole garden.

In the same garden mentioned in my previous Journal I came across these two beauties.  The owner, June, has since told me that the local Connaught Gold garden centre sold out of Dieramas after visitors to her garden had seen these two show stoppers!!!  I was so lucky to have June offer me seedlings from these plants that had seeded in the gravel below – now I have to mind them!!

We were inactive for a long time. Following today’s bit of sun we have a few nice strawberries at last. The chicken wire is to keep the blackberries out.

This one is planted in a pot with my David Austin rose ‘Teasing Georgia’ (yellow). I love orange and yellow together. It opened today and is looking sumptuous.

I grew Verbena bonariensis from seed this year and was keeping a good eye on them looking for buds which weren’t appearing. then today I was attaching the clothes line on the other side of the garden and there was one with a bud! I think I did put some there and they got surrounded by other things and I forgot them. Just shows, sometimes neglect works better!!

I’ve resisted the temptation lately  to wax lyrical about my beloved Rhodos and their beautiful foliage, but I can resist no more. This is the wonderful species R.fulvum, whose flowers I featured earlier on in the year and now here it is with its glorious foliage. Aren’t those leaves magnificent. I could have featured any number of other Rhodos, but R.fulvum gives a great representation of the glories of the genus.

What do you think?

delighted to see this flowering today, as I wasn’t expecting much given the summer we’ve had ( or not had!). I think it’s Star of Yelta but I’m not sure as I sowed two types together. I just hope it’s not a one-off flower as this has happened to me before.

I decided last night to load my July photos. Thanks to the new arrangement I was able to select the entire contents of the July folder on my computer at one go!!! It took a while to load (probably because there were 91 photos in that older :-)) so when it finished it was past my bedtime!

This evening I had a look and realised that some of the photos were not needed in that album, and the rest needed labels!

I made an interesting discovery – if you have added a few titles and then delete a photo you lose the titles you have added! Simple solution – “Save Gallery” before doing the deletion!

I’ve also discovered that it takes much longer than you might expect to label a load of photos 🙂 ….. and the album is down to 60 or so …. 🙂

yes it is a time when my daisies are blooming.. msimple flower bur gives me such a joy.

Happy gardening to you all.

Hedychium wardii in flower at the moment… lovely and scented…

Thought I’d feature some newly formed buds on two early flowering species. Neither of them have flowered for me yet, but R. barbatum is showing promise.

I walked with a group to the highest point in Kildare, Cupitstown, this morning. Persistant drizzle and chat and six miles covered by mid day. Walked down past Huntingbrook Gardens which looked very well worth a visit before my holidays are over. Some garden plants have escaped into the surounding ditches and look great. No gardening today put my clematis The President (I think) is looking good.

In the background is Moya’s Banana , then Bruno’s Tetrapanax and in the foreground Hedychium  . There should be Cannas right in the front but they are still about 6″ tall!!