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”
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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…
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”
Cashel House- The Final Day of the Course
It was raining during the night. When we woke, Hanna pulled back the curtains, the sun light came flooding into the room. Through the branches of the tress in the secret garden it created twisted silhouettes and golden rays. We had just had an excellent night sleep, the quiet of Cashel Bay wraps your sleepContinue reading “Cashel House- The Final Day of the Course”
Saturday at Cashel House Gardening Course
The sun has been shining all day. The weather has been great for us at Cashel House, as usual. There has been days here in the past where we have had coffee and scones laden with home made jam and whipped cream while sitting on the front lawn and basking in sunshine while the restContinue reading “Saturday at Cashel House Gardening Course”
Cashel House Hotel, Connemara- a weekend of blooms and food!
Menu from Cashel House Hotel 1st of April 2011 I am so lucky that my work takes me to Cashel House Hotel in Connemara, Co. Galway. Situated in a picturesque bay on the Atlantic coast with mountain views and ocean waves, the grounds of Cashel House Hotel are home to a varied and unusualContinue reading “Cashel House Hotel, Connemara- a weekend of blooms and food!”
Ciaran The Gardener 