The thoughts and ramblings of a landscape gardener…
Posted in every post to date, my favourite plants on Jun 27th, 2008
This allium, also a member of the alliaceae/ lilliaceae family, the same as kitchen garlic [allium sativum] is probably my favourite bulb.
My favourite variety is this and of course Allium globemaster - mainly because of its yellow centre spot on a mre purple flower; akin to that of the solanum crispum glasnevin.
These guys do cost [...]
Posted in every post to date, my favourite plants on Jun 26th, 2008
This member of the Pinaceae family was planted quite recently, but it is probably one of my all time favourite trees. But for all the gardens I have created, I have probably only ever planted 5 of these [maximum] in my career. [To put that in context I may have planted close to One million [...]
Posted in every post to date, my favourite plants on Feb 20th, 2008
Daffodil bulbs! it might be a little nippy out - but it is fantastic to see nature bring that little touch of inspiration! Whilst most of the bulbs planted last year are still attempting to bloom - there are a few that have had the courage to test themselves against the sub zero celcius [...]
Posted in every post to date, my favourite plants on Feb 7th, 2008
I bought this plant around five years ago. But only recently has it started to show its true beauty. An aged, almost antique piece for the garden The ‘corkscrew hazel’ as it is commonly known produces tiny catkins which develop around the winter period.
I found it very difficult to get a really good photograph - but [...]
Posted in every post to date, my favourite plants on Jan 28th, 2008
Walking through the nurseries today selecting trees for a garden we are creating at the moment when I stumbled upon this little beauty flowering on its bare stems. Most of the trees I needed are in bud at present, but not in leaf and definitely theres rare, if any oportunity to see flower. Next time [...]
Posted in every post to date, my favourite plants on Jan 17th, 2008
this is the platycerium bifurcatum, more commonly know as staghorn fern. I thought it worth a mention being that it is so unusual and not exactly what one might see on O’Connell Street!
For those of you who dont know… epiphytic plants, in this case of fern, are plants that grow above the ground level and [...]
