Month: July 2014
This is a lovely foliage marginal plant. I have it a few years now and it’s beginning to spread about nicely. It does produce nice dainty white flowers on a tall spike in time. But none here so far. Maybe it’s beginning to settle in now!!!
I bought some bulbs in Bloom if this pretty plant. They are in full flower now and in pots. So they are in the flower beds filling up a few spare spaces. Lovely little plant.
To day warm and humid, still no rain yet but prepared. Greenhouse is producing well, another two tomatoes picked and another should be ripe to morrow. Every time I enter the greenhouse, I pick some grapes, lovely. I picked about 4 pounds of gooseberries to day. The path up the garden seemed impassible every day with weeds mainly vetches. To day I took them on and after some great effort cleared the path. That means thatI can now get at the fruit better. I noticed that the rhubarb had grown a lot in the last two weeks so two bunches were picked. I am ready for the Country Market to morrow. Roses, Hydrangeas, Hypericums, Philadelphus all looking good. Some parts of the garden are parched. The rain will be welcome to morrow.
The persicaria bank is beginning to look a little yellow at the top as a result of all this drought.
I had to send a certain junior hero up this morning with the hose.
Arrived Home from Wicklow at 10pm last Night…poured a Coffee and went out to the Lean-to only to be greeted with the most Mind Blowing Aroma’s of Sweetpea and Stock…after light Rain for the most part of the Day {Miss Dasies report}it seemed to unleash Natures Scents…even a Woodbine Plant was playing its part with whiffs of its Perfume hovering around…
Just waiting for Miss Daisey now to finish her Breakfast before heading for Galway…Another Day gone to loss and 3 more to follow before normality {I hope} returns on Monday next …
This is part of the garden that I think I have never posted a picture of before on the site. It leads from the back garden up to the fruit and vegetable garden. Bit wild and overgrown and as always looks better in the phote then in reality.
Forgive my long absence. In the beginning it was a broadband problem lasting for about 3 weeks. When the broadband was got working again it was the good weather. There was a stretch in the evenings, the weather was brilliant and there was lots to do. I was out in the garden til after 10 in the evening and the last thing on my mind was writing a journal. i have being logging in an odd evening to see what everybody is up to. It is now time to put up a few journals to show what I have being up to for the last few months.
Most of you know my Japanese area by now. But if I and you were totally honest it’s like as if I only got half way to Japan with the planting.
So it’s going to be done right at years end.
Most of the plants are coming out, extra soil will be added, along with a few Acers, my Cloud Tree (improving nicely) will then be planted instead. The the area will be covered with weed membrane and granite grit will dress it off. A nice piece of granite may add the final touch.
Then I think it can rightly be call a Japanese Corner.
I was in Derrynane last week and noticed someone taking a photo of a flower so I went over to see what they had found and it was a Bee Orchid, so I took a photo too! I think they are amazing the way part of the flower imitates a bee in order to attract other bees to it for pollination.
I knew those Indian saris in the attic would come in useful again one day…
Knitting and now sewing for Open Day – let it never be said that I didn’t go all out!
One of the best things I like about gardening is the maths!!
You know the addition, the division, the multiplication, even the subtraction ……..they all have a place there.
So with that in mind I bought a Canna lily ‘Kreta’ in Lidl last week for €3.99. It was a lovely healthy one.
Whenever I buy a plant and it’s a decent size I always try to divide it up. And this I did…….I took out my old bread knife and I chopped it up like a loaf of bread and hey presto I know have 3 wonderful plants out of 1 wonderful plant.
So you see 3 does go into 1…..well in my world of maths anyway
We had to go to Gorey yesterday so on the way we called to Killmacuragh and was not dissapointed , it always has something to offer .
I went around with the camera very fast as we were expected for lunch in Gorey but when you are in a garden such as this lunch was the furthest thing from my mind …..
Can anyone id these please? I wish I had more of them as the photo doesn’t do them Justice. A lovely purple/pink in color and low growing with light green leaves in clumps. I cant remember planting these at all !!
This was planted in Ratoath and I thought it added great structure and interest but there was no name on it and the staff member did not know what it was
these two are looking really good as they are intermingling at the top of the arch.
but of a different kind. Found this by chance today very near to where we were working. Maybe just as well because they did not like being disturbed and so we were very very careful thereafter. One sting each was enough to be getting on with.
The second Lily to bloom, (perhaps the third, ‘Blackout might have been slightly before, but anyway, we’ll go with this one) is Lilium martagon ‘Arabian Night’. Scented, to my nose at least, like oranges and quite a few blooms this year.
Isn’t it great to get weather like this? I was at the Meals on Wheels again this morning but the weather continued to be good for hours afterwards. Some time, not very much was taken up at deadheading of roses. As some are taken out others take their place. A certain area near, the secret garden, had a lot of young blackthorns and briars. Removing these was tedious but worth it. The Hypericum hidcote is excellent this year. Another tomato is on the way to be picked. I tasted the grapes and some are quite sweet. While they taste good, they are still small and I wonder if they are to remain that way. After tea, I was at a meeting and coming in the gate after same, the scent of the Philadelphus was supreme.
A few weeks ago I was weeding the Arena and accidently broke off 2 Leaves of a “Sedum” Plant…not wanting to throw them out I chanced planting them…this is the result…
Nothing wrong with your memory, Jacinta. You are right this dierama bloomed in my garden 2012. It didnt appear last summer and not so far this year. But I saved seeds and I am hoping that I will see results maybe next year. It was very unusual and Gerry Daly said it may have been a cross as I had sowed mixed seed in a pot and left them all together. I had a terracotta one and a pink but then this appeared a couple of years later.
Thats the great thing about sowing seed, you can always look forward to something different!
Well on our last visit Fran offered me to do some digging in the garden… But promises promises, promises….. so i need to get a digger in…
oh i hope you all will see on the open day…mind you will not be finished.
These Yellow Dwarf Lilies are out in full bloom at the moment. They are a lovely vivid yellow and very cheery… I have a pot of red dwarf lilies too but just not out yet.
We got a special delivery for Open Day by tractor this evening đŸ™‚
PS The photo has nothing to do with it.
Hubby was busy cutting hedges today.
He was busy doing the top of the hedge that screens our dump when I heard an almighty yell and scream for me to come help.
My heart was in my mouth as I raced over with horrible images of the chain saw massacre in my mind!
I found hubby between the hedge and the dump and I knew what had happened…
Last year Sam took a notion to dig a big hole. He was influenced by that book, Holes. He was quite helpful in the garden at first but then when he wanted to continue digging and I had nowhere for him to dig I sent him to behind the hedge and told him he could dig a hole there.
He dug a 3ft hole before he got bored.
And, you’ve guessed it. Norman forgot about the 3ft hole when he was cutting behind the hedge and busy looking up and ended up in it.
Luckily nothing was broken, just some cuts and bruises.
