Our day started early. With a raucous choir of bird song under a low grey sky, I watered the plants in the tunnels at home. We fed the cats, drank some coffee and loaded the last few items into the car. We closed the garden gate in Mayo at 6 am and hit the roadContinue reading “THURSDAY 2ND JUNE- FIRST DAY AT BLOOM”
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BLOOM 2011
BLOOM IS BACK, AND WE WILL BE BACK AT BLOOM. OUR STAND IS IN THE FLORAL PAVILION, NUMBER 40. The Garden School will have a stand and I will also be doing a daily blog, and may be a little more about BLOOm 2011. Using my iPhone I will be snapping pics of gardenContinue reading “BLOOM 2011”
Day in the Botanic Gardens
I have had a great day with some students in the National Botanic Gardens in Glasnevin, Dublin. Paeonia rockii in flower, flowering ash, Fraxinus ornus, in bloom and Spanish bluebells flowering under Laburnum trees. Looking superb! Here are a few pics I took with my phone…
Leg of Lamb With Coffee Sauce
For Easter Sunday last weekend, we bought a half leg of lamb from the Irish Organic Meats stall at Boyle market in Co. Roscommon. I wanted to do something a little different. Hanna suggested cooking it with coffee. This is a traditional Easter lamb dish in Hanna’ family which here grandmother always cooked back inContinue reading “Leg of Lamb With Coffee Sauce”
Autumn Pudding with White Chocolate Sauce
It all started with a trip to a nursery. We went to purchase named female cultivars of our favourite berry plant, sea buckthorn, Hippophae rhamnoides. The nursery is Fruit and Nut, part of the Sustainability Institute in Westport, Co. Mayo. We had selected three different cultivars, we already have a female plant and one maleContinue reading “Autumn Pudding with White Chocolate Sauce”
Admired plant
This is Asarina scandens, much admired by students on the home study course at one of the regular garden visits to National Botanic Gardens at Glasnevin in Dublin. It is a tender perennial herbaceous climbing plant. It always self seeds into the old stone walls at the bots where in trails downwards. It can growContinue reading “Admired plant”
Facebook friend offers free weedkiller for my talk
Tonight I am doing a talk for the Oranmore GIY (Grow Your Own) Group. The title of the talk is “Top Fruit, Soft Fruit and Strange Fruit”. I announced the talk on my Facebook page and then I got an email from a Facebook friend who I have never met, Oisin from Irish Organic Weedkiller.Continue reading “Facebook friend offers free weedkiller for my talk”
Ciaran The Gardener 