Robinia Pseudoacacia Frisia
I had an email in today reminding me that October was just around the corner…. And it is. With that comes tree planing season. That said, this photo was taken last week and there is great potential for me to end on an entirely different subject-ish My idea here is just to get you thinking of [...]
{ all posts, plants } { One comment }12 New Plants To The Market – From Ireland
I have interviewed my good friend Pat Fitzgerald before. Twice actually. But when a Kilkenny man brings 12 new plants to the market, already employs 35 people and exports [some as far as Japan] over 85% of all of his plants grown…. I think it’s more than news worthy. An Irish man selling Japanese style [...]
{ all posts, plants } { 7 comments }the umberella plant…?
My oldest brother came home from college one day with one of the little arrangements you get at Christmas time. My oldest sister bought it one day with her friend. anyhoo onto the plant…. I would have been about 9 years old I’d guess. Anyhow, the wee thing grew too large for the wee pot [...]
{ all posts, plants } { 2 comments }Cycas Revoluta
The Cycas or Sago palm, cycadaceae, is a genus of about 15 species. This one, the C. revoluta is better known as the Japaneese sago palm. These are another batch of plants I spotted in the Cape Garden Centre. It is generally a very robust plant but with age it tends to begin to lean [...]
{ all posts, plants } { One comment }Beaucarnea recurvata
… Some of these plants were used in the building of the garden in Wallacedene. Once again they came from The Cape Garden Centre. They were however planted as a smaller species [you'll see them in the images below in sand in a liner similar to a 1 litre pot]. Once again and yet again [...]
{ all posts, plants } { 0 comments }Irelands Native Irish Trees [listed & detailed]
** TO VOTE For Your Favourite Native Irish Tree – please scroll to the bottom of the post – really appreciated – Peter With the lead into the winter spring/ tree planting season I went searching for a list of native Irish trees recently. Left extremely disappointed by what I could find… There are many [...]
{ all posts, plants } { 31 comments }Leucospermum cordifolium x glabrum
I was blown away when I saw this plant displayed at The Cape Garden Centre. I have seen these guys before… but they are very much a rarity, in Ireland anyway and moreso in such abundance. The Leucospernum, commonly known as the pincushion, Protaeaceae, is a genus of about 47 species of evergreen shrubs. What is [...]
{ all posts, plants } { 0 comments }Lavender
The Lavandula [labiatae/ lamiaceae] A genus of about 25 species this fragrant beauty is an absolute must in any garden. Particularly high in nectar and therefore extremely attractive to bees, the answer from a domestic point of view is to be careful where exactly they are planted. A case of beneficial versus pest, possibly? Often [...]
{ all posts, plants } { 2 comments }Carex Oshimensis ‘Evergold’
The Carex or sedge plant [cyperaceae] is a genus of over 1,500 species. They are mostly evergreen, at least those that I am most familiar with, although there are some that are deciduous and they are grown mainly for their foliage. The member of the Carex family that I am chosing to profile is the Carex oshimensis [...]
{ all posts, plants } { 2 comments }Helianthus
In a garden recently and I spotted this little beauty growing in a widow box…. It brought me way back to my childhood days. Dad used to have these old cavity concrete blocks running along side the oil tank. Every summer we’d go down to the library to get our free seeds and plant them direct into [...]
{ all posts, plants } { 0 comments }Horse Chestnut Tree
The Aesculus [Hippocastanaceae] or horse chestnut tree is an absolute all time favourite of mine. I don’t know how many years I spent hanging out of them or trying to harvest the conkers from them… Love it. A genus of about 15 species, these are the ultimate in examples of palmate [hand like leaves]. Do [...]
{ all posts, plants } { 0 comments }paeonia [peony rose]
I love the peony roses. They were one of my Grandmothers favourites. But they came with so many ‘how and what not’ fables attached it’s infallable…. When my Nan passed away my Mam brought one of these from her garden and planted it in ours. It ‘died off’ shortly after she planted it… but came [...]
{ all posts, plants } { 5 comments }can you recommend a plant… ?
If you are looking for that splash of colour… for that flower-less bed that just never seems to appear bright at all or you simply wish to have a ‘bash’ at creating your own bit of inspiration……. Then here are 18 little beauties that are guaranteed to bring a [greater] smile to your face. You [...]
{ all posts, plants } { 4 comments }taxus bacata
the yew, taxaceae is of a genus of 5-10 species and one of those that reminds me firmly and almost immediately of the ‘ye olde’ type style gardens. In fact I’ve yet to meet one without. Most commonly famed for its use in hedging or topiary, they are evergreen, berry producing plants that are listed [...]
{ all posts, plants } { 2 comments }solanum crispum glasnevin
there are about 1,400 members to the solanum family. I particularly like this one climber mainly for its blue and yellow dotted trailing flowers. A member of the potatoe family… for that reason I believe] I find this beauty always does well in Irish soils given half a chance. The crispum members of the solanum [...]
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