Garden Tour – Ciaran The Gardener

Photos from Irish Gardens – Carmel Duignan’s garden

I have been looking back at this blog which I made over the course of BLOOM and the Kotipuutarha tour of Irish gardens last June. It was great fun making it and it is really nice to look back on the tour. All the photos were taken using an iPhone. The whole blog was madeContinue reading “Photos from Irish Gardens – Carmel Duignan’s garden”

The Last Night

Shopping done,we travelled from Kilmurry Nursery to Acvoca in Kilmacanogue in Co. Wicklow for lunch. More shopping was done, including more plants and seeds. Then it was time for lunch. After lunch it was back to Dublin, Trinity Capital Hotel, where they very nicely supplied plastic bags for everyone to help them pack their plantsContinue reading “The Last Night”

Kilmurry Nursery, Gorey, Co. Wexford

After leaving the Bay garden, we took a short coach trip to Kilmurry nurseries near Gorey in Co. Wexford. It is a family run business, Paul and Orla Woods specialize in growing quality herbaceous perennials and grasses. Orla is an ex-classmate of mine from college, National Botanic Gardens. Kilmurry are regulars at BLOOM and otherContinue reading “Kilmurry Nursery, Gorey, Co. Wexford”

Bay Garden

When walking around the woodland garden in Bay Garden, I had a moment of disorientation. I looked around and thought I was in the woodland garden of RHS gardens in Wisley. Ian Mac Donald says that the Wislay garden was his inspiration, and he has certainly achieved his goal. Broad sweeping grass paths lead youContinue reading “Bay Garden”

More photos from Cedar Lodge

After leaving Cedar Lodge we had lunch at Jamesons in Middleton and then drove from Cork to Bunclody in Co. Wexford. Tomorrow we visit Bay Garden in Camolin and Kilmurry Nursery, both in Co. Wexford. The time has flown by, we must be enjoying ourselves! Photos below- from top: Cornus controversa ‘Variegata’; ornamental grasses; SambucusContinue reading “More photos from Cedar Lodge”

Cedar Lodge

I remember hearing of Neil Williams about 20 years ago. I was working in Murphy & Wood Garden Centre in Dublin, Neil was propreitor of Carewswood Garden Centre in Cork. Both garden centres had a similar focus, sourcing rare, new and unusual plants to sell to their plant mad customers. I remember when the blueContinue reading “Cedar Lodge”

Photos from Coosheen

Hosta ‘Chinese Sunrise and H. ‘Alan P. Mc Conell’; Hosta ‘Praying Hands’; Salix sp. And Eryngium bourgatii; weeping larch; path under acer and cornus in back garden; blue hosts; Persicaria ‘Red Dragon’; view through Stipa gigantea.