Month: December 2014

A very happy Christmas to all my wonderful friends . I wish you all that is good for 2015.

Wishing all my gardening friends a very happy Christmas! Pity I can’t show you the lovely Christmas Rose and the flowers on Brendan’s tree cheering me up today with all the lovely sunshine!

Wishing you all a very Happy Christmas and New Year.

See you in Johnstown 🙂

Sending warm wishes to you all and your loved ones, and to the Irish Garden / Garden.ie team too.

I’m all excited for tomorrow!

(I’m unable to upload pics for some reason but not to worry)

Have a good one folks, and I’ll see you at the get-together!!!!

Wishing all Gardeners a very Happy Christmas and a Wonderful New Year in 2015. 

Let’s not forget to send our best wishes for the Happiest Christmas to Gerry Daly, CraigK and the garden.ie team, who consistently sort out our online issues and put in a lot of hard work to keep the site going from strength to strength.

Wishing everybody on garden.ie a good and peaceful Christmas…

A very Happy Christmas to all you wonderful garden.ie friends and your families.  Thank you for sharing your gardening dreams, successes, failures, advice, expertise and fun throughout the year, for all the lovely garden visits we shared and most of all for your friendship.

I hope to see many of you again in 2015, meanwhile have a peaceful and restful time (if possible!) over the coming days.

Hi everyone and seasons greetings to you all. Where did the year go? I retired after 31 years in one job, started another totally different job part time and said bye to Mum in June . She will be missed at Christmas dinner this year having come to us for the past six years. Her Silk Cut Blue Box still holds one cigarette in it. She loved a smoke when she visited even though none of us did ! Maybe I will light up for her this one last time.  Next year maybe I will get to meet some of you in person, just have to make the effort. Roll on the longer evenings and good health to all in 2015. Declan 

i would like to wish all my garden.ie friends a very happy christmas all the best for 2015 

i am starting to feel a small bit more human at the moment it was the worse sickness i have ever had with a touch of pneumonia and then pleurisy. ended up in A & E yesturday as my doctor was afraid of blood clots thankfully it wasnt so was let go home phew was afraid i was in for christmas

i am going to town tomorrow no matter what, i have planned this for along time so i will wrap up well and enjoy a couple of hours looking around the shops and havea rosmantic  breakfast with hubby in the GBC cafe in town. a great way to start christmas eve.

hope santa brings loads of garden gifts to you all 

Just want to say Happy Christmas to all the wonderful people on this site. It has been a pleasure to be on this site since I got into gardening and have learned so much from people here and also I am growing so many of your plants in my garden which is a great bonus from great people. We are over the hump of the shortest day now so onwards and upwards with the garden. I already have daffs, crocus’s and Snowdrops popping there heads above the soil to get me excited for the nex year.

Can’t seem to upload a photo, will try add it later.

I would like to wish all on Garden.ie a wonderful, happy, healthy and safe christmas.

Happy christmas to all my friends on this site, and i hope you have a really really good new year and that it will be the best for you so far!…i have neglected to post this year however next year is another year and i hope to rectify this

I’ve just received an email from some friends in the NP.

There is one ticket left for an amazing world wide garden visit trip of a lifetime. You need to be free from Sunset on the 24th December to Sunrise on the 25th December. 

This trip will encompass every garden in the world. It will be guided by a Mr. S Claus, not sure about his garden knowledge, but he is said to a great character, and enjoys a good laugh.

So if you’ve been a really good gardener this year, and can make it to the NP Sleigh Stop No. 1 by Sunset on the 24th the trip could be yours.

Only draw back that I have noticed in the small print is that once the trip is over, and you return home, you will remember nothing of it ;(

But what a trip it would be.

‘Well’ chortled Cherub Cymbals ‘Dear Mr. Scrubber is finishing the year in typical fashion!. Some people put up lights, some people try to get in new trees but Mr. Scrubber  “FINDS ANOTHER NEW ROCK AND MOVES IT!’ The whole Scrub seemed to join in with him in the chorus and Cherub-who was indeed most helpful today-especially at the last bit of push and pull (helped by Cherub Lute I have no doubt) Cherub smiled and said ‘Theres a lot to be said for consistency!’ ‘Eggshactly’ stated Micilein Dee, his voice a little muffled by the amount of winter beech leaves that had blown in around him. ‘My Shentiments egszhactly, Cherub’ ‘-Zhackly,- Zhackly’ echoed Esmeralda..

They are all a bit giddy coming up to Christmas and I might explain that Scrubber had no intention of working with stones today. He had heard a little klink yesterday as he worked to trim the edge of the lawn overlooking his ‘Dads garden’ i.e. down where the crab apples are going. There was a path on the slope about a foot down from the edge and the edge itself had become uneven and ragged. So Scrubber widened the path by digging into the bank-thus the klink. But it seemed a very large stone so best let sleeping giants lie.

Only today when piling up the extra clay, the spade did detect a ‘slight budge’ so Scrubber brought out the crowbar to attempt… and lo The stone moved a little and then a lot and then was manouvered up and away from bank and then moved back into the bank as a support. Honestly it didn’t travel more than two feet in either direction but with the two cherubs’ help it slid finally into position and Scrubber filled in around it with the surplus clay and was able to plant out about fourteen small clumps of snowdrops from the three bunches that were unearthed during excavations.

Then after all that excitement-back to raking raking raking. Scrubber was knee deep in leaves most of the time and still has tonnes to move but got Marian’s bed and most of the old rockery clear. And its lovely when you shift the leaves to see all the little snowdrop tips shooting up. I now have three daffodils in bloom and they were not my early ones but are quite sheltered down there so maybe that’s it. Tomorrow is to be wet and windy and then it’s Christmas eve so time to call a brief halt!

May we all, Cherub, Cherub Cymbal and Lute, Statue Scrubber, Mr. Gnome, Esmeralda, Hoot Owl, Lord Buddha, Shoosh and distant Dooley and lastly Scrubber hisself,  wish each and every one of you a peaceful and contented Christmas, May joy light a candle in your hearts and may 2015 bring us all a richness and fulfillment and appreciation of how very lucky and blessed we are, even if at times it slips our mind!

(Sorry no pics as Computer is acting the maggot but if i say anything there will be a row and it wont even print text!

I got a very nice prezzie today from a very special person ……my oldest son Greg ……he is colour blind and he picked this one out himself and with a perfect wine coloured pot …if he saw this he would be so mad as he is shy …………………..but takes great photos .

Ive put up a small album showing the progress of the groundworks for the greenhouse.

So happy with it all. The paths and base are now in and all before the rain is due!!!

Im delighted it all done and hopefully the acutal greenhouse wont be too far off now. Jim got lots done over the past few days, he is brilliant and even with the camera stuck in his face, he takes it all in his stride 😉

Hope you enjoy the photos !!!

 

I’ll be heading north tomorrow so I’d like to wish everyone a Happy Christmas and great gardening in 2015!