Month: March 2015
While I do like seeing all the different types of Daffodils at this time of the year, I’m afraid I have to ‘come out’ and say that I am ‘oldie’ and really prefere the good old plain Daffs.
One that I do have and am delighted that it is bulking up grand is N. rip van winkle. It’s a real keeper for me.
Margot, you gave me these when I visited you and they are flowering now.
Thanks so much, I love them.
I stopped by Woodies on the way home for a packet if parsnip seed. I have no idea or recollection as to how these two Cana Corms ended up in the boot . Anyhow do I set these indoors for outdoor container planting or plant out later . Should I bring them in each winter ??? The advice on the packets was minimal to say the least . Plant 8 cm deep and that was it !!! HELP . Will exchange huge Parsnips for good advice
Or Portugal Laurel. I am wondering if anyone has experience of growing this as a hedge. I am particularly interested in knowing if it survived for anyone during the two very bad Winters that we had.
We have finally got the digger man in and cleared the escallonia hedge which never recovered from these Bad Winters,
I now have a blank canvas in which to plant but unfortunately need something that is going to grow reasonably fast as we are now exposed to all the neighbours and I am not loving that!!!
Any feedback at all would be much appreaicated
This is just a quick check in to say that I’ve had a fantastic weekend but am quite exhausted and don’t see much gardening happening today.
Last night I was giving my Exciting Annuals talk in Myshall in Carlow and was delighted to see Peter, aka Scrubber, appear. He promised all kinds of heckling from the audience but, in the end, was as good as gold 😀
Thank you, Peter. You are such a pet and a real gent and I’m only sorry I didn’t see you when you slipped away but I got your message.
And here’s just a little reminder video that the April Irish Garden is out now, for anyone who may have missed it…
After such lovely weather it is hard to see it changing and back to cooler and wet again!
Heavy showers here this morning and some with hailstones too! Brrr!
Never mind! This rainbow, a few minutes ago, reminded me that it will pass!
My back garden faces mainly south so working there to day, it was great and digging was pleasant. The soil broke up so well. I sowed the parsnips. I would have done more except for that phone call. Looking at Kerria joponica Pleniflora, I plan to divide and there should be plenty for many.
I posted this one before but I was struck when I saw Peter Wiseman’s journal by how similar they are.
This one is labelled Sue Jervis.
The Limerick Garden Plants Group are delighted to host a talk by Averil Milligan, head gardener of the National Trusts Rowallane Garden in Co. Down, Northern Ireland, this coming Thursday 26th March. All are welcome! The venue is The Southcourt Hotel, Raheen, Limerick, at 8pm. There will be refreshments afterwards plus a plant sale and raffle.
I had loads of Hellebore seedlings coming up a few weeks ago. In this area I have three different kinds of Hellebores, one of which is orientalis. It does show characteristics of this one, but the petals are more fluted. Loving it.
In full flower at the moment, aren’t the flowers just the best looking, the detail is amazing.
Well no takers and I can understand why. How does one transport an 8ft plus Bamboo? So when Eddie came to help me in the garden today we had a chat about it. I suggested that he might try to see how difficult it would be to dig out. Back came the report , not hard at all !! So there is now a plan to move it to an area where it will look good. I am still more than happy to give some to anybody who might like to have it. How great to have had a sequence of sunny days hope there may be some more to come. Enjoy.
Good evening fellow gardeners,
Now i forgot to take a before photo, but i am making a cup out of old tyres, painting it up and then planting it, i do have a patch at the top of my garden where i plant wildflowers, and have all sorts of knick knacks there for the summer, wheni am done i will take photos so until then, i hope ye all are well
the rain has arrived only light but good,so all,s good here.
They have their terracotta pots back in.
Only one Fritillaria here in my garden, and that’s ‘uva vulpis’. Just beginning to flower now. I see lots of smaller ones coming up all around the few that are flowering. But I think they may just be a little bit immature to do the business just yet. I could be wrong (I usually am!!! ).
Really liking this display of daffodils at the moment in one of my pots. A really nice white and orange one which is from a selection of daffd april got me for my birthday last year.
“Kew on a Plate” tonight BBC2 9.00-10.00pm
This morning, I got a phone call. A woman was on first. She was apparently checking my computer. She asked me for my e-mail address which I gave her. I asked her how genuine the call was. She put me on to a man, who like her spoke in an accent from Asia. He said that he was from Éircom and was there to upgrade the computer service. After some time I got suspicious and asked him to ring back. I got on to my Telephone Company, Gaelic Telecom. The lady who spoke to me was suspicious as the system to being genuine. The man who claimed to be from Éircom rang back after about an hour. I asked him again was the call genuine. I hung up.
There was quite a frost here Saturday night, the Hellebores just keel over with it. But once temps start to rise again they are back to normal, amazing to watch.
Thanks to Jacinta’s post yesterday I got to come home from work this morning and settle with breakfast in front of the TV, watching 3 great gardening programs that had me itching to get out into the garden.
So once I got out and back to “operation transformation Garden 2015” I was in full swing and ready to pounce on every weed in sight. But low and behold …….
For a couple of years I own 3 Hellebores and while the clumps are definitely getting bigger, I never found or saw self sown plants. I truly was wondering if my soil wasnt encouraging seeds to germinate or if my plants were even setting seed! But today was the day. I found Baby Hellebores ! Thanks to a post by Hazel that was sitting in the back of my mind I recognized the little babies as Hellebores rather than those dreaded tree seeds I am weeding out in millions. It saved my precious seedlings just in the nick of time and made weeding a lell of a lot harder haha.
Thank you Hazel and Jacinta for your journal entries and I am thanking everyone else in advance for your entries too. I am learning so much with each and every one of them.
For I’m going to mention this plant once again.
Melanselinum really does produce the most stunning new growth on leaves you will ever see. I think the photo is just stunning.
In the foreground of the photo is a Bamboo!! This is a very excellent plant in the best of health and vigour. It is a clumper not a spreader so also well behaved. It may be a Fargesia; the stems are a pleasant yellowish colour. Trouble is the present owner planted it in the wrong place.It is in front of a Phyl. aurea and taking the sun from the area behind. Should anybody like to give it a good home they will have to come and dig it out!!!! It could be divided into several good plants for use as screen or feature. Owner would like to keep a couple of culms as she hates losing any plant completely being a sentimental creature. Refreshment will be on offer to the digger. Large strong fork will be required, a good back may also be an asset.
There was pots of flowers on my dads grave last summer that had dried up and died and my mom was just throwing them away as you would but I saw the primula looked like saving so took it and planted out the back and has come on great since with really nice flowers, very hard to photo as it is darker than this in reality but don’t have a clue of name if anyone knew.
I was informed the other day that I tend to ‘waffle on’ and ‘exggerate’ at times!!! 😉
So I will just let the photos tell their own story of a ‘wee’ garden we visted the other day and you can decide for yourself, but when Garden VIP’s like Jimi Blake show up while your there, it says something for this wonderful garden.
Or maybe it was just that Jimi heard I was there……………. hmmmm
Thank you both for a lovely day.
Enjoy the album folks.
