Month: December 2012

hi all

happy christmas and may all your seeds sprout and your plants thrive in 2013.

love

evelyn.

Wishing all my garden.ie friends a very Happy Christmas.

And look what opened for me on Christmas Day! 😀

………….and all through the house, not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse.

Well here in my house my three small creatures are not stirring so I must finish off packing, then make sure that all is in place for Santa’s visit.

Wishing all at garden.ie a wonderful Christmas and a more wonderful New Year 2013, with lots of gardening and garden visits and loads of great sunshine with nice soft rain only when needed

Wishing you all a very happy Christmas.

I hope Santa brings some nice gardening goodies 🙂

I am in shock here as to the lenght of time since I was here and equally, that I am sitting down, more of less everything done.  I don’t know which is the biggest shock, to be honest.  Not only am I more or less sorted, but I also had time to do a flower arrangement.  Those of you who have the Irish Garden magazine, Carole Bone did up some beautiful flower arrnagements so I tried one.  It didn’t turn out as nice as her’s but I am pleased with it.  I have my subscription coming as part of Santa!!!

Happy Christmas everyone. 

Just sitting back listening to a lovely carol program on the TV and already my Christmas is looking up! I got a present of a lovely pink Chaenomeles which had been kept in a greenhouse so it is in full leaf. I’m keeping it in my greenhouse too as it is starting to flower!

What is the best way to acclimatise a plant like this to the hard life of outdoors in the average Irish garden?

Anyway, it is tucked up safe and sound until after the Big Day! Hey, Santa! Did you get my wish-list? Lost in the post? Whaaat!

And to those of you who have forgotten your Irish (or were never lucky enough to learn it in the first place) 

A Happy and Peaceful Christmas to all of you!

To all my forum friends both new and old i wish you a happy and peaceful christmas and a bountiful new year    

Started by having to take magnificent Maisie to the Vet. Luckily having got several potions she will be ok.  Then home and off with Meg up the fields, it was nice and sunny and I walked around listening to O Holy Night , I love that hymn/song.

Then home again and the oddest thing ever I planted 40 Daffodils and some Bluebells. Seemed so weird doing it on this day of the year.

Now watching Wonderful Life for the umpteenth time.

I wish you all the happiest of Christmasses and thank you for your friendship which has meant so much to me since I found you all.

The decorations are up,the mince pies are baked, the presents are wrapped, the chimney is cleaned for the visit of the main man,the mulled wine is been sipped as I type. All that remains to be done in advance of the big day is to wish you all my gardening friends a wonderful peaceful, happy and Healthy Christmas and a big Thank you for all the advice support and gardening chat during 2012 and looking forward to more of the same in 2013.

I believe Hellebores are also called “Christmas Roses”, or at least that’s how I knew them before I learnt they were also called Hellebores. I have a few in the garden, but they usually open around late February or March. I bought this little one last year at the beginning of December, and for the last few weeks, I could see something looking like flower buds coming out of the ground, but so, so slowly! Well I believe it was taking its time to be ready just on the right day, as I went and looked at it today and the flowers are finally out, exactly in time for Christmas!

Happy Christmas to all! 

These Acer Palmatum leaves are looking good for the season that’s upon us. Lovely mild day here today.

I take it that everyone is busy with preparations, with the quiteness of the site. It is nice the way the weekend has fallen to give extra time to prepare for the main day.

I’m even hoping to get into the garden for a few hours on Wednesday, while the family sleep on ;-))

Am I dedicated or mad,

but I need a garden fix.

some-one asked for a photo of my garden under water. I have to say I took the picture today, but with hand on my heart, I can honestly say this is what it looked like most of the summer. 

The spuds are still in the drills, and I suppose it gives a new meaning to “straining the spuds”. 

Next year I think I will put in a rice crop, keep a few chickens, and buy a couple of packets of curry powder.

But just have to post a couple of photos of the Ladies Restroom in Cork International Airport Hotel. Whacky, or what!!!

been very quite on the site lately, havent been gardening and been busy with my weight loss program walking like crazy all is going well. 

just want to wish you all a very happy christmas and all the best in 2013. hope to be back on site in the next couple of weeks as the gardening season begins again with a crazy seed sowing session. the ground is so wet you couldnt do a thing with it, havent got the trees yet but that will be sorted in jan or feb when soil is suitable for planting again 

Happy Christmas to one and all, i joined this site a year ago and have met the nicest of people and learned so much so thank you all. Hope everyone has a great holiday. I have not been on this of late as not much happening in the garden and a few weeks ago my dad had been diagnosed with fairly aggresive cancer so here’s hoping the new year will bring good news and a greater gardening year with a bit sunnier weather.

Thanks again and Happy Christmas

… to wish all garden.ie club members a joyful and peaceful Christmas.  Enjoy the festivities, safe travels to anyone on the move, and thank you for being such great garden friends.

This photo doesnt do these two orchids justice, but I wanted to put up my Christmas Journal tonight so have just taken the photo and the light is not the best.

Some of you who I know well, know that I have been having some health issues the last couple of months. I am thankful to say I have always been a very healthy person and so it is a bit of a shock when something comes along to change that. However it is also a very special, if sometimes difficult, learning experience. I realise in a new way just how precious family and friends are to us.

So as we wish each other Happy Christmas this year, just take time to pause to value each of our family and friends.

I have just started my first chemo treatment yesterday after going through surgery for breast cancer and there is a long road ahead but I am facing in to it with a positive attitude and know that I have God, family and very good friends on my side. So I hope that I will come out the other side a better person by the experience. I feel fine today and I intend to enjoy the good days and get through the bad ones:)

Family arrive tomorrow so wont have much time for the laptop!

So I wish you all a very Happy Christmas.

Just to wish one and all,

a very happy and enjoyable Christmas.

Thank you,

for being the wonderful people,

you all are.

I have had a lovely evening browsing through my pictures and came across these Begonias …if I may say so myself very nice ones ….

It was last minute Christmas shopping for me today.

Boy was it packed!

At the very end I nipped into Woodie’s in Carlow for a quick looksie.

Their orchids really are good value, at €6.99 for flowering ones, but my eye fell to the bargain trolley.

I wasn’t looking for a Dendrobium but at €2, you can’t go wrong!

It’s great to be pointed in the right direction.

I’ve scoured the web to find a picture of a wren and a dunnock at about the same position.

Having studied them closely I think that it is a dunnock. This is a bird I didn’t know of although my wife did. She also said that the wren is much smaller.

Not an easy job though.

One caution when getting something off the web. I had posted a picture on the village web site and misnamed it.

Google came along and added the picture to its data base without my knowledge.

And, of course, it was in the wrong data base.