Month: December 2013
Happy New Year to all on this site. I have met some great people here and have learned so much.I look forward to many more meetings and many more years of using this site. A pic of 2013’s daffs and of whats to come in the new year. A small few are starting to stick up out of the ground and with even more varieties this year i cannot wait for my Narcissus/Daffs to come up. And some cocktails we will enjoy tonight đŸ˜€
found this on pictrest it is a great site where you can get great ideas a friend told me about this as i was looking for good ideas and what should be in a japanese garden, also love these cyclemen what drew me to them was the different motting on the leaves also close up of my camelias. i have my eye on some nice pots to put these into which i will pick up over the next week or so
i have just set the wheels in motion for a new area that was a veg raised bed area and i am turning it into a japanese style area, i am really excited about this and love out there planning and scheming. i actually sat down last night and drew out a rough idea of what i want. still more sketches to do to get it right, i have also been on the PINTREST site and got some lovely ideas of different japanese gardens and wow they are gorgeous., i have printed out some of the garden ideas so i will sit down now and see what i want to use and what i dont. i want to do something else with the patio than what it has been almost marry the two together which will be fun because it is just a concrete mass and that really doesnt go with the japanese feel.
between yesturday and today i have got it almost cleared out now. i have also been shopping and got myself two lovely pink camelias and i have my eye on two pale yellow ones also got some buxus and carex, i already have black mondo grass and will add a couple of the cornus midwinter fire in also. want to pick up some cobbles etc.
i would like to wish you all a very happy new year may all your plans come true and heres hoping for another good summer
I wish ye, one and all a happy new year, may your dreams come closer to fruitation, may good health be bestowed on you and your family and may your home and heart be full of happiness. That is my wish for your new year.
As this day ends, and we enter a new day and year, I wish to thank you one and all for some great memories and times spent together.
Whatever you wish for in 2014 may it come true with added interest. May we all be here in 12 months time, wishing each other the very best for another year and be looking back on what I hope will have been a great year for us all.
Looking forward to waving 2013 goodbye as it hasn’t been great for me. But……forever the optimist, things WILL get better. And as I am a woman of few words (some will argue LOL) I want to wish all my friends here a very Happy New Year.
Happy New Year to one and all. I hope you have good weather and health to enjoy your gardens in 2014 and look forward to sharing lots of photos, visits etc.
I hope to get back to my garden now that the builders have left.
I have included a few photos from lovely garden visits this year.
Happy new year to all gardeners on .ie On a friends tablet here…Trying to get used to it……has nothing to do with the copious amounts of red wine I’m drinking……
Here,s to a greatgardening year in 2014 to all of you……
As we are getting closer and closer to the new year, and before it gets too busy here, I want to wish you all a very Happy New Year for 2014, happiness, health and lots of enjoyment from gardens, flowers, plants…
We’re celebrating New Year’s Eve tonight, and tomorrow New Year’s Day and Sophie’s birthday. As of tomorrow, we will officially have a teenager in the house, how did that happen so quickly!
Looking very much forward to the get-together in a couple of weeks time also!
After the storm last night, it seemed to clear and give us a lovely day for the garden. It didnt turn out that way. We have somewhat broken weather to day. I went to Woodies to find that there was a sale. Among the various items I bought, was an orchid, like most, a Phal. Instead of being €6.95, there was €1.40 discount. Now the picture shows two orchids, one bought to day the other I showed early on . It came from Woodies. Can any one tell the real difference between them? Of course I haven’t over 300 orchids like Rachel. The tall one was bought to day.
Wishing all member a very Happy New Year and looking forward to seeing lots of photos of gardens during next year. 2013 has been a great year weather wise for visiting gardens and it was so nice to have shared a number of visit with the members on the site.
Looking forward to gardening in 2014 and have started to make plans already. Seeds ordered, dates in diary for talks and holiday booked for April 1st.
Miserable weather here in Waterford since lunch hour but I did get out for a little gardening this morning. At this time of year I want to be out getting ready for spring and with bulbs pushing up through the soil, hellebores and primulas starting to flower your spirits are lifted in someway.
Have a great New Year wherever you are this evening. I am hoping to be at the fireworks in town to mark the eleven hundred years of Waterford city.
Many good wishes to all of you and your gardens in 2014. Exchanging news and photos has been a real pleasure and inspiration this year. We’ll be hoping to spend more of the year visiting gardens and seeing these beautiful creations in the flesh, as it were.
We should have spent the glorious day yesterday gardening, but it was my birthday so we celebrated having two good knees by going for a long walk on the beach, something we haven’t been able to do over the New Year for several years. It was wonderful. Scotland was great fun and very beautiful, but it’s so busy in the UK, and it’s great to be back on quieter roads and peaceful beaches.
Enjoy the turning of the year and like you all we’ll be hungrily watching those first green shoots…..
Hello all, I would like to wish everyone associated with Garden.ie a very happy new year, in particular all who write journals which are a constant source of information,advice and pleasure for me.
Mise le meas
Seán
No I am not on my travels merely out the front/back doors!! A large assortment of lakes are to be seen different shapes , sizes and depth. Never have I seen such flooding in the garden but not surprising after last nights downpour and the previous rain. More to come I gather so maybe I will look at boats today and choose a nice one to get around . Now I regret not digging up my pet Dahlias I fear there will be a lot of rotting taking place this year.
But 2014 is on it’s way and I wish all my dear ie friends the best of everything.
Our Grandaughter has had this since November and wanted to give it to me for Christmas ….I never saw this before .
That is the bean/seed with my name on it and in 7 to 10 days it will appear with my name on it and will break open to reveal the leaves …
Must say it is different ….so will let you know if it comes true ..
I would just like to wish all you wonderful people a very Happy and Healthy New Year
I can’t believe another year is over and that it’s been a year almost since I started using the journal on here. I’m so glad that I did because I’ve learned so much and have met some lovely people too.
Im hoping to make it to Johnston to meet up with you all and put faces to the names at last. I will have to have a look around and see if I can come up with anything to swap, or would anyone be even interested in what I have, as they are just everyday ordinary plants so far, as this is my first year doing actual ‘proper’ gardening.
i hope you all have a lovely evening tonight whatever you do. We are heading out for dinner this evening and then coming back home to a ‘quiet’ night. I don’t like NYE I prefer to get it out of the way. I love 1st Jan as it’s a new year, new start, new beginning.
So whatever you are up to, enjoy. And I look forward to lots more fantastic journals in 2014.
Happy New Year!!
Gidday all, acouple of the shrubs doing well in the heat.
regards roofy.
Delighted to see that the Gardeners’ Gathering is taking place again in a couple of weeks. Looking forward to a trip to Johnstown.
This fair weather gardener has been idle in the garden but will start looking forward to spring now. These Hyacinths are doing well indoors and they smell great too!
To day, the weather was suitable for the garden. It started off with rain but soon the sun came out. I planted the Magnolia stellata which was a present, in the back garden where it would be sheltered. The clothes also went out. The birds are back again. They had not been fed while i was away. I did a detour of the front garden to see if there was any damage done by the strong winds, apparently not. The grass has grown and on one shrub I noticed a ladybird, unusual at this time of year. The pruning of the roses was begun about 12. In the afternoon it got a bit cold so i retied.
Hello to all my gardening friends. Apologies I have not been on the site over the past while but things have been a bit hectic. My dear Dad was taken into hospital the week before Christmas but thank God he is back home now and getting stronger every day.
We had a lovely Christmas busy with Santy entertaining family and friends and visiting other family members. I got some lovely presents and of course there was the usual smattering of garden related ones , Books including Carol Klein Life in a Cottage Garden and a gift of a garden Alice Taylor as well as a voucher for the local garden centre.
After 4 or 5 days of indulegence I had itchy fingers to get out to the garden and the weather obliged to-day – it was calm with lovely sunshine. We did a good bit of tidying up more perennials , cut back the leaves from around the Hellebores and planted up a few bits for Johnstown (more of this in a further journal) We finished up the afternoon with coffee and mince pies outside lovely my kind of day.
The chosen pictures are of three spikey plants that looked good in the sunshine today and give a bit of structure.
As I did not get to wish anyone a Happy Chrismas I am getting in good and early with my New year wishes. I hope you all have a very Happy, Peaceful and Healthy 2014 and that we create some great gardening memories.
just been looking up bamboos as i am going to turn my raised beds in to smaller containers for my bamboos, looking at the rhs it describes in one part that the phyllostyaches nigra and the yellow stemmed bamboo which is also a phyllostyaches as clump forming and then in an other part it says that it is a runner form, i am putting them into these raised beds but i dont want to end up cursing it in a couple of years when it starts running riot. is there anything i can do with the bottom of the beds to ensure it stays put or will the container do the job……..advice please
Having been out of action recently with mobility, I decided to coax and cajole Steve to take us out on a short trip to the Botanic Gardens. It’s the first day I have been out walking without the crutches, so it was a test in itself.
After such a horrendous night with torrential rain and winds, it brightened up no end by midday so it made for a very welcome stroll around the Botanic Gardens in Glasnevin. I didn’t manage to do the full perimeter of the gardens but I surprised myself anyway. And it was sooooo great to be out in a cold, but lovely sunny day.
After the miserable weather over the christmas i just thought i’d post a photo of my garden in the sweltering heat of last summer….i hope for a repeat in ’14!!!!
My new year’s resolution is to spend more time on gardening web sites and blogs! I have missed seeing what all of the lovely gardeners of Garden.ie have been up to in the garden!
I was so happy to see this bloom on my orchid. It had been dormant for months!
Happy New Year to my fellow gardeners!
Dana Xx
Was in my nearest Woodies store today and only JUST resisted temptation. This Cymbidium was reduced from €14.99 to a mere fiver. But I already have one here for the last three years and I’m still waiting for it to flower for a second time. If it doesn’t come up with the goods soon, it’s up for grabs.
