Month: May 2015
Recently Fran put up a journal which featured Heucherella. At that time I never knew there was a difference between Heuchera and Heucherella. Well I didn’t even know the latter existed!!!
While going through all my labels I came across Heucherella ‘Yellowstone Falls’. And sure enough it is putting on a magnificent show in the garden. The colour of the leaves is amazing but the little flower that emerges from it is just stunning. And here was me going to go and source one, maybe at Bloom even, when I’ve had one myself the whole time.
All my Streptocarpus are starting to flower or have buds waiting to flower. Have just put an Album up (which I will add to over the coming weeks) and thanks to Rachel for her video on Potting on Streps. It was invaluable and has made such a difference to my neglected plants of yester-year!!!
is great to see amongst the bird life,spent the arvo enjoying it.
The June issue of The Irish Garden has landed in letterboxes all over the country …and it is in the shops too.
With Bloom happening next week, we have descriptions and illustrations of the 25 show gardens. Get an idea what to expect when you visit the show!
With the hazy lazy days of summer ahead, we have a sampler feature on garden furniture.
Finola Reid has written an excellent profile of the flowering dogwoods… stunning!
And there’s lots more … let us know what you think…
May I introduce Euphorbia Sequieriana Niciciana. Thank you Bruno – although I have to admit that you were very accurate in describing this pretty plant as a thug!
But i have settled on letting it ‘do its thing’ in the Oak Border where it has been giving the pretty Persicaria I got from Fran a serious run for their money!
So it has now spread itself in a neat collar around the Corylus avellana ‘Contorta – Red Majestic’ where I really like the contrast between the dark foliage of this shrub and the vivid flowers of the U4BA.
I’m so happy that the primula
I planted in the Ash Woodland have turned out to be Multi-story! I love the way these Candleabra Primula just keep growing extra “storeys” as they open 🙂
Just need to say a quick thank you for all the comments, texts, phone calls etc. from you all on my Mums passing.
Despite knowing this was going to happen it is still shock no matter how well you think you have prepared yourself.
From all of us, a big thank you, it means so much.
For so long, we had rain, showers and low temperatures, not what to expect in May. To day was so different, temperature up, no rain and one day when I had plenty time for the garden. The mower was out at once the grass was dry and while one might think that the grass was too high, nothing went wrong. By 3.15 p.m. the lawn was mown and looking good. A short coffee break and out again with the barrow to pick up the grass. After tea, I got at the rose beds, well one so far and one bed edged. A lot has to be done yet but I believe more of this good weather is on the way.
Evening all,
I bpught 2 clematis today, never had so thought i would try them, i was ging to plant near trees where the lower branches have been cut, thought they might grow up the trees and cling on, is this good or bad, also is there anything else i need to know before planting them.Thank you all very much for any advice
Just got a call to say Frans Mother passed away late this evening ….R.I.P.
Condolences to Fran Maria Colin and Maria at this sad time …
Only just over two weeks to go! We are very excited and delighted about it all and can’t wait to see all our old friends and to meet lots of new ones. I am putting together a brand new talk especially for the occasion and it is going to feature never before seen photos of the making of our garden – photos going back to the early 90’s. To enable me to do this Martin spent the afternoon going through our old photograph albums and making digital copies of all the old photos. It’s wonderful to have all these photos on my computer now.
Amongst the photos found was this one, taken at the National Garden Awards sometime around 2000 or maybe 2001. There’s a few people there you might recognise….
I planted this right beside my Sambucus ‘Black Lace’ last year as there was nowhere else to place it.
They work well together, in my opinion.
The first of this Wednesday’s videos is about colour clashes in the garden. So who can deal with pink and yellow together?
The second is on how I water and feed my orchids, the lazy way…
Lazy Girl Orchid Watering & Feed Guide – YouTube
I would just like to say thank you to everyone who has viewed and subscribed as I am at 503 subscribers now and growing fast.
Occupied with other issues at the moment so I asked Maria to collect some bags of compost and a grow bag yesterday for me.
She rang me from Woodies to say that there was 75lt bags of Erin compost for €1. I said get two and I’d see what it was. Perfect bags of compost from a dropped pallet she was told. Lots of them burst open.
So on my way home this morning myself and Aoife called in and checked what was left. I now have 900 lt of compost valued at €89 for a massive sum of €12, my gardening bargain of the year me thinks 😉
Who’s a happy camper?
Only know this as Alocasia which I got off Bruno last year and has survived all winter outside and in the ground. I dug up a few weeks ago and potted up as I want to put in a better place but delighted to see it’s first leaf and they should get bigger as it produces more.
We took some photos of the garden for the agent’s blurb, so I thought I’d put them into a small album. It’ll be awfully hard to leave!
Alan’s hanging pictures at an exhibition in Adare on June 3rd so I thought I’d come with him and visit your garden. If you’re about, ‘friend’ me and we can make arrangements.
A review that might be of interest as two of our members are mentioned. John Grimshaw felt that both Conrad and Bruno’s gardens deserved to be included in the book, what a honour.
https://johngrimshawsgardendiary.blogspot.ie/2015/05/the-irish-garden.htm
These two plants remind me of two ladies leaning over to have a chat! Loving them completely! The Solomons Seal has really started to thrive and is now towering over the Dicentra while in previous years they were only the same height!
Either way, a combination that works for me!
Dear Elizabeth – you were so kind as to give me this little plant in a pot when we visited you the day of the Fota Plant Fair and with all the chatting we did i never got the name of it!
It is really starting to grow now but I have no idea where it might like to live …
So please help!
Twice this evening I was proven right over a decision I made with my Tropical Area.
Last Autumn I moved a Peony and was told they were a plant that didn’t move well.
I moved it to a an other section of the Tropiacal area where it could be seen better. I have just heard the Peony expert say he ” loved these plants because the are so Exotic looking”, my thoughts 100%.
These guys at Chelsea seem to know what their talking about LOL
Clare thank you again for this lovely Peony, it is just about to open so the move did it no harm at all.
Be still my beating heart!!! Dan Pearson is back to Chelsea , by far my favourite garden designer and garden person. It is 11 years since last he did a garden for Chelsea and to my mind it was worth waiting for….but I missed him. I will say no more about the show tonight until everyone has a chance to see it. I will just keep hitting the red button and watching my hero.
No leaves and certainly no Cherry Blossoms . First time this has happened in over 25 years… Is it now firewood I ask? Anyone else having problems with Cherry Trees ?
It always amazes me how the weather differs greatly in a country as small as ours. Just remembering a comment by Margot on someone’s journal saying that she hasn’t put out any of her pelargoniums yet as it has been so cold and windy up in Donegal, and Moya with her late-planted tomatoes.
I guess we’re blessed further south and probably don’t really appreciate it enough. This photo is of last years pelargoniums that were never actually taken in from last year and flowering nicely already now, and that’s without having even fed them yet.
I think today has been the worst day in a long while, squally showers, very blustery and lots of hailstones that seemed like they were falling HORIZONTALLY!!!
BBC 3.15pm for 30 mins and then 7.30pm for 30 mins. For anyone who can get BBC London I would think there’ll be something on there at 6.30pm.
Just found this pic where we were renewing edging on pathway of boulder area!!!
