Month: November 2013
I am just wondering if there are any more votes in the Which Cattleya Will Open First Competition?
So far we have Tina, Clare and Joann voting for number 6, Johnstown’s Orange.
We have Jacinta and Scrubber voting for number 8, Voilà.
We have Pwiseman and Fran voting for number 2, Bob Betts.
And we have Spider voting for general confusion!
Come on now, there’s a prize up for grabs! Do we have any more votes?
Just to tempt you all, here are photos taken today!
From the top left…
1. BLC Huatand City ‘TY Naughty’
2. Cattleya Bob Betts
3. Cattleya forbesii
4. Noid Betty Boop
5. LC Coastal Sunrise
6. Noid Johnstown Orange
7. BLC King of Taiwan ‘Dashin no. 1’
8. Guarcyclia Voilà
9. LC G.C. Roebling ‘Sentinel’
I was really surprised to see this Cirsium coming into full flower again this late in the year.
Tomorrow night promises to be a great one for the Limerick Garden Plants Groupwhen Stephen Butler Curator of Horticulture at DublinZoo comes along to give us a much anticipated talk. Starts at 8pm at the Southcourt Hotel, Raheen, Limerick. Everyone welcome! Members €3, visitors €8, includes refreshments afterwards.
November 28th
Planting for Illusion
An illustrated talk by Stephen Butler
Stephen is head gardener at Dublin Zoo and has this to say about his talk tonight “Dublin Zoo has undergone remarkable development over the past 10 years, with an Asian Rainforest for our Indian elephants, full of bamboos and tropical looking plants, an African savannah with many South African plants adding colour through the seasons, and a densely planted African rainforest for our gorillas. Plants are now accepted as crucial to the design, and much thought goes into plant choice and layout, this talk will give an idea of how a modern zoo uses plants to improve visitors impressions, and create better habitats for our animals.”
These bubs flowered for me the first time this year, loved them.
What I find strange and the same thing happened last year also was, after flowering the foliage died down quickly but in a couple of months new growth appeared and the photo shows the stage the growth is at now.
The foliage will stay like this through the winter.
Is this the norm for this type of Gladioli?
I think this photo says it all,
Fallen golden / brown leaves, yellowing leaves on plants and a big clump of Kaffir lilies.
One of my Clianthus is in bud at the moment.
This can only end badly!
November so it’s hedge-planting time again, thankfully the last bit. And it was dry this year, unlike last year when it didn’t stop raining. In a few years we’ll have a nice thick windbreak and I might just have a spot where I can plant a Japanese acer!
Hi everyone. Since the consensus seems to be that we go to Johnstown again this year I contacted Jim there and he sent me this link to a video of the new premises.
I also checked and they will be having their usual January Sale finishing on Sunday 12th january.
I suggest we go for the last day of the sale – and Jim assures me that they will also have lots of spring plants in by then.
For people who haven’t attended one of these events before we usually meet in the Restaurant for a bit of lunch – and part of the event is the Kris kindle and free raffle.
Johnstown Garden Centre on the Naas Road is the venue and they make us very welcome. They will also put plants from the sale aside for us for collection on the day.
And of course is it also a great opportunity to bring along all those bits and pieces you promised to other members!
But the best part of this event is catching up with our gardening friends for a good chat.
As usual I will be looking for volunteers to help with the various tbings on the day but more of that later!
Please feel free to suggest any variations to the arrangements!
have been stuck in hospital since the early hours of tuesday morning. this chap seems to have taken a shine to me. tries to come in the window each day .really huge up close.
These Geraniums were grown from seed this year by Marias dad. He gave me the extra plants he had.
Been slow to throw away perfectly good plants I took them up a few weeks back, tidied them up a put them all in a couple of pots in dryish compost and into the shed they went.
Whatever makes it trough the winter well and good, but just look at them now, they seem to like where they are and are flowering away happily.
