Month: May 2015
How to move Photos from ipad to make an album on ie. When I click add photos nothing happens! did this before but forget so help pease ipad friends.tata
A beautiful morning here, eventhough a bit breezy and rain is due later.
This is the border at the front of the house that we dug out and replanted three years ago. Removing the big shrubs and replacing with mainly perennials was the best thing I ever did for my garden. Very happy with it now.
HELLO EVERYONE AS I WAS ASKING FOR HELP LAST WEEK REGARDING A SEVERE RASH YOU ALL GAVE ME GREAT ADVICE AND THANK YYOU.WELL THE UPDATE IS AS FOLLOWS AFTER A LOT OF ARGUMENTS WITH THE HOSPITAL I GOT NOWHERE SO I RANG A PRIVATE CLINIC IN DUBLIN AND THEY DID BLOOD TESTS AND SKIN SAMPLES AND WITHIN TWO HOURS FOUND OUT IT WAS A CHEMICAL REACTION TO SOME SORT OF SPRAY THAT WAS USED THEY GAVE HIM TUBES OF CREAM BUT THAT DIDN’T WORK SO I REMEMBERED YEARS AGO MY OLD UNCLE HAD GREAT BELIEF ON THE OLD RED BAR OF CARBOLIC SOAP SO OFF I WENT HUNTING FOR IT AND FOUND IT AFTER A LOT OF CAJOOLING AND PERSUADING I GOT MY SON TO SHOWER IN IT FOR A FEW DAYS LO AND BEHOLD THREE DAYS LATER THE ITCH WAS GONE AND HIS SKIN WAS HEALING AND I NOW HAVE A HAPPY ITCH FREE SON BACK ….. THANK GOD FOR THE OLD FOLK WHO KNEW A LOT MORE THEN PEOPLE THOUGHT….
I was in the garden all morning, doing the usual, moving pots and making things flow a little better from a visual point of view. Spent too long at Bloom the other day LOL. A bit of planting and repotting, basically chilled and relaxed with nothing overly taxing to be done.
Hazel the first flower on Geranium Wargrave Pink has just opened, really delighted with it, many thanks 😉
Had a lovely day at Bloom yesterday. Met Jacinta and Gretta at the Show Gardens and had a long chat. Margaret and Ted K were busy buying plants in the marquee and later we ran into Rachel and Liga sauntering around after a long day.
Bought a few plants and saw those very expensive hydranges, beautiful.
My haul for the day was :Polemonium caeruleum ‘Purple Rain’, Geranium maculatum Red leaf, Vancouveria hexandra, Geum ‘ Mai Tai’, 3 Primula chungensis and three bulbs of Scadoxus multiflorus, nothing very unusual, but nice to have something coming home.
A little snippet before Gardener’s World last night and it seemed very good.
I was also at Bloom yesterday and had a lovey, if exhausting, day.
I went with Liga and bumped into Ali, Paddy & Mary from the site and several others, not from the site.
I did better this year than last, coming home with 3 plants!
Before I left, I recorder this video in the ‘Year in the Life’ series, which I hope you will enjoy.
A Year in the Life of a Border – May, Cherry Border – YouTube
This Clematis is full of buds – weather so cold here for the past week, except for last Tuesday when it was a wonderful day!! Ceonothus really making a great show and with an added bonus – perfumed!! Reminder that Beechgrove is on 8.30pm tonight BBC2 Scotland. Gardeners World is also on at the same time tonight BBC2!!!!
I was at Bloom today with my sister-in-law Terry. We always go on the first day and its a real treat – since its a rare event for us to meet up we push the boat out and do lunch in the “posh” restaurant – although it is getting more expensive every year!
As none of our .ie friends managed to bump in to us we had to settle for a brief encounter with Uachtarain ns hEireann instead!
Like Fran, I don’t want to ruin the surprise for others so I’ll just talk about them instead – which is really annoying for you all with no pictures Hee Hee!
I really liked a garden called “Summer Days” or something like that – full of colour, lovely blending of plants and colours …. I also loved the Postcard Gardens this year … and the Children’s Hospital one was lovely too ….and the one with the seaside theme featuring ground cover sedums … liked Jane McCorkells… Best in Show again I think? ….and …. and … and … but the one I CAN show a photo of is the Super Garden because its been on the telly already!!!! I got to talk to the designer and complimented him – it transferred very well to Bloom I have to say. I could just picture that little chap from the house having great fun with the wheelchair accessible water feature – is ther anything children like more than messing with running water! I thought it looke even better at Bloom than it had on the show.
One thing disappointed me this year. A lot of the gardens featured very drab colour pallettes – dark purples and blues in a lot of them with dark green foliage seemed to be a theme this year but some of the gardens with this overall pallette had brought the whole thing alive by introducing a touch of vivid colour. There was a beautiful garden very formal in structure planted in whites and a fairly pale yellow but again it needed a strong colour to give it a “zing” in my opinion.
For oxygenating plant. I used to have loads of it in my pond and somehow it all vanished. I have been looking for some for ages and ages and don’t know where to get it. Am using barley straw at present but the plant is better. So if any of you have a pond with oxy.plant to spare, and are going to Terra nova , would you bring me some please and thanks.
I am not sure of this but I think it is a Rugosa Rose. I have a fair number in the front. They are very easily propagated. My late sister in Co. Waterford gave them to me. A few of them are in bloom. They are quite hardy.
Here’s a video of an experiment on a dahlia propagating quirk…
Thank you, Peter, for use of your photo…
A Quirk On Growing Dahlias From Cuttings – Coupe de Soleil – YouTube
Looking good out there, some showers expected but I’ll be doing the norm and getting the show gardends out of the way, then it can do as it likes because I’ll be inside. Going to really enjoy my day, bestist salad sambos are already made 😉
Hoping to meet some .ier’s along the way. No shopping list as such mainly on the lookout for a climber or two of some kind that will fit into the new area.
Enjoy the day whatever it brings, life is too short.
Just a quick note to remind you all about the new TV programme on BBC2 on June 1st. Busy week-end for gardeners with Bloom happening and I hope everyone has a great time there and the weather is kind to us. I am going on Friday and maybe I will bump into some of you.
As regards Greatest Gardens, a friend of mine is featured in one of the three programmes, so looking forward to seeing her garden as I have not been there for about three years.
Years ago in Tesco, I bought a four pack of Ericeous plants for a few euro. With nowhere to plant them at the time they went into a pot. As time went by they grew and the roots intertwined there was no way of seperating them so I just potted them on and on. I got the first blooms on the Camelia a few weeks back and now this display is looking great.
With hindsight I’m delighted I didn’t manage to divide them.
On account of the low temperatures in May, most of the roses are slow to open. However I have one rose to display. It is Abraham Darby, a shrub rose of the David Austin variety. It is very fragrant. Yesterday was lovely, one of the best days this season, however the temperature is down a lot to day.
OK folks so it’s time to start getting excited now, between Bloom this weekend and our get together the following Saturday we will all be garden talked out by the end of it all. 😉
Sadly there has been a few people have had to drop out or are unsure. If you are planning on going, and have not already said you are going could you please do so here. Deborah needs to know roughly what kind of numbers to expect.
There will be a small charge of €10 for the day, a precentage of which will be going to one of Deborah’s local animal shelters. This will include access to the garden, a talk by the great ‘Lady’ herself on the Developement and Growth of the garden, and a Treasure Hunt. We are also having a communal lunch, so if you can bring along your favorite salad/cold dish for sharing it would be great. I have had a few of these at other events and they are great fun. Plates, knives, forkes etc. will all be provided along with tea and coffee facilities.
Needless to say another one of our now infamous Plant Swaps will be happening and a few plant lists have already been posted in recent days.
I will post a full list of attendees early next week, with a reminder of directions etc. We are meeting at 12.00pm so please do not arrive too much befor that time in case you catch the Faries at work putting the finishing touches to this wonderful garden that is Terra Nova in every way.
I am trying to create an Album. Have titled it: Front Garden and have up-loaded six photos. BUT I cannot get them into the album box. I obviously knew how to do this some time back because there are several old ones with mutiples of pics.
Would someone kindly give me some advice? If so, many thanks.
I took possession of my late neighbour and friend Larry’s garden pump today. His grown up children asked me to remove it as the house is up for sale and wanted me to have it. I haven’t decided upon a location for it yet but am thinking that it will look nice possible in a circular flower bed in front lawn. The Cup attached to the pump is solid iron and was made locally around 1900 in the local forge ( now a small but busy garage) just up the road from me.
Very cold today in this part of Mayo rain all morning,it`s just showing a little bit of blue sky. the rain has done alot of good bringing on the young plants we brought up the pots and planters and put them under the cottage for shelter at least the wind has gone round to a sotherly now. The clematis are full of flowers they will be a lovely show just now.
Yesterday I was visiting Mount Congreve gardens and when walking down the Paeonia walk one of the gardeners was busy cutting off the small buds from the paeonies. She told me that cutting of the small buds will make the remaining buds flower much bigger, which makes perfect sense. This morning I decided to do the same to one of mine, Paeonia ‘Jan van de leeuwen’ and I removed twenty six buds. Now, most of my paeonies could not afford to have buds removed, but it will be interesting to see how it will flower this year.
Is flowering now, absolutely love it. It seems the flowers only last a day but with lots of them in the flower spike it’s happy days.
This started flowering here a couple of weeks ago with the odd flower and just tought that’d be it now until later in the year but the last week more and more are starting to open and should be covered in flowers in no time. Delighted to see it but is it early for this?
I had a red one open at the weekend. But a much smaller flower than normal, and the ends of the petals were slightly blackened. And there was only the one flower. Were the petals blackened by strong winds maybe? However, not to worry.
Today, my lovely climbing rose in the front (R. ‘Graham Thomas’) opened. I’m hoping to train this to grow under my living room windowsill and across to the hall door (or thereabouts).
