Summer, oh where is the summer? This morning was a rare sunny start and I was up early to see the fog lifting its damp veil from around our plants. There is a saying in Ireland, “sun before seven is gone by eleven”. You really do have to get up early to get the best of the day. I was out with the camera at just after 6am, I had started working on a garden plan but the light was fabulous and there was not a breath of wind, to good a moment to miss… I hope you enjoy my photos of some of my favourite plants in the garden at the moment.
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Ripening berries of Sorbus koehneana
Cobwebs on Weigela “Alexandra’
Rose, shrub from Estonia, can’t remember name…
Lychnis flos-cuculi ‘Jenny’
Lychnis flos-cuculi ‘Jenny’
Geranium x oxonianum f. thurstonianum and foxgloves- Digitalis purpures
Sambucus nigra “Black Beauty’
Deutzia scabra ‘Plena’
Scabiosa ‘Butterfly Blue’ and Stipa tenuissima
Dierama – angel’s fishing rods
Dierama in flower
Tropaeolum majus – nasturtium foliage and flowers
Tropaeolum majus – nasturtium flowers
Nettle – every garden should have a good bunch of nettles, we have lots!!!
Fuchsia magellanica ‘Alba’
Dandelions… obviously we have not eaten enough fried dandelions…
Early this morning as the fog was lifting.
Periscaria polymorpha early morning in our garden
Rosa ‘Rosarie de l’Hay’ – beautifully fragrant
Lots of these guys…
Philadelphus -grown from seed, good scent
Rosa ‘Fru Dagmar Hastrup’ – rugosa hybrid and fragrant
Tilia henryana
Deutzia ‘Magician’
Potentilla ‘Mango Tango’
Verbascum chiaxii ‘Album’
Cerinthe major ‘Purpurascens’
Abelia engleriana, lightly scented and very long flowering season
I am a gardening enthusiast, a horticulturist, working as Head of Horticulture in Johnstown Garden Centre, and a gardener on my days off.
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4 thoughts on “Early morning in our garden in Co. Mayo – July 2012”
‘sun before seven is gone by eleven’ I’ve never heard this ‘Irish’ saying and can only assume it’s a colloquial phrase. Lets keep our fingers crossed that St. Swithun’s day (July 15th) is a dry one! Fab photos as always Ciaran, brightened up this wet grey day here in Deansgrange – thanks 🙂
Ciaran The Gardener 
‘sun before seven is gone by eleven’ I’ve never heard this ‘Irish’ saying and can only assume it’s a colloquial phrase. Lets keep our fingers crossed that St. Swithun’s day (July 15th) is a dry one! Fab photos as always Ciaran, brightened up this wet grey day here in Deansgrange – thanks 🙂
Thanks Ena, I learnt the saying from a woman in Dublin, its what her mother used to say to her, maybe the weather is different in Cork!
I love your garden, it looks a bit like mine!
Thank You Jemima! You mean you have lots of weeds in your garden too? 🙂