Bird Boxes
The bird box has always been something I’ve queried. I don’t know why. I just feel/ felt that they would always be better off making their own. Is that fair to say….? Either or, I wanted two in the garden just for the craic of it. You know, to see would they come. These two [...]
{ all posts, make and do } { One comment }The Ladybird
Coccinellidae or ladybirds as we know them are members of the beetle family, generally red with black spots head and antennae and can be anything up to almost half an inch in size. But with over 5,000 species they can also be any colour from yellow to black. The less prettier and often referred to [...]
{ all posts, grow your own } { 3 comments }For The Birds…
This has been a really unusual week from a bird point of view first I like to start with this [part of a qoute] from Neighbours.ie. I had written something myself on birds in our gardens a few days ago but I had neglected to mention the wider bird populus It is reported that up [...]
{ all posts, ireland } { 3 comments }Some Irish Birds…
The weather outside is absolutely freezing… it has been for some time now and today the snow fell in Ballyboughal heavy enough to concern me. With that in mind I had reckoned I should do a post on some things frost[y] related. In what I can only describe as a sincerely very welcome press release [...]
{ all posts, horticulture in ireland } { 3 comments }kilkenny Castle Rose Garden & Park
On Monday the 26th October 2009 I went to visit Kilkenny Castle Rose Park & Gardens. I went under the recommendation of my good friend Pat Fitzgerald. As I walked up towards the castle I was bemused at the amount of brand spanking smooth polished granite that adorned such a vast are[n]a, complete with mirror [...]
{ all posts, parks & places } { One comment }outdoor events and greeny gigs
Thanks to my good friend Joerg for some of these…. I’ve got a long list of free events all outdoors and green related that are on over the next coming days….. so go on get outside and enjoy yourselves first up… The Ballymun farmers market takes place on the first thursday of every month. I’ve [...]
{ all posts, courses/ gigs/ events } { 0 comments }the velvet strand, portmarnock co. dublin
When it’s right on our doorstep… they say you rarely use it. Personally, I always loved the beach. I hated it as a child. I had to get in. People would be in duffle coats and I’d be in my pants freezing, eating salad covered in sand Oh happy days! Great memories But when I [...]
{ all posts, parks & places } { 3 comments }recycle a [red] satellite… ?
I wanted a bird bath for my ‘wild’ fruit garden area remember my very dead [& red] tree….? remember my long grass under the fruit trees….? I found a satellite and had some paint left over…. I also needed a bird bath… And I fancied a little ACDC…. It makes me smile in the morning [...]
{ all posts, make and do } { 2 comments }how to look green…. doing very little
***the video works, the screen just appears funny – press play & enjoy I was sitting in my back garden having coffee with Thomas from Irish Allotments I had been showing him the video that Dave from 98fm did for me. Dave and I got talking last week and I was asking how does one [...]
{ all posts, grow your own } { 5 comments }allium ursinum.. eh…? allium triquetrum
This is wild garlic. It is the ultimate in free food. You’ll find it in most hedgegrows and damp woodlands. Go and grab yourself a little clump… a *little* clump I said! Plant it in and around the base of some hedges, near a ditch or a damp patch. Around this time it is a [...]
{ all posts, plants } { 4 comments }malahide demesne
The first Sunday of March I went to Malahide Castle [also called park or demesne]. I like the park. I’ve been here before. But it’s been a while. As an open space – I love it. But the park holds much more than green fields. I was you might say a little disappointed. On the [...]
{ all posts, parks & places } { 0 comments }what tree will you plant this week…?
Today is the start of National Tree week. There are loads of events on – some are free, some will be extremely boring – some will be great for the family. Either or it is amazing the bargains that always existed in this department. Trees don’t have to grow huge. They can also be a [...]
{ all posts, garden advice } { 4 comments }time to wake up…
I was out and about in the garden and it seems nature is actually waking up all around me… It is a little the storm before the calm. The vernalisation period that we [in Ireland] had last week and now are tipping over the ten degrees… But whilst temperatures may fluctuate – it is essentially [...]
{ all posts, horticulture in ireland } { 0 comments }national tree week
Blog posting #300 March 1st – 7th 2009 is National Tree Week. It’s a cool week. There’s loads of tree events on – literally all over the country. There is no excuse not to get involved. I have some posts on trees, trees, trees and trees here to get you in the groove. That [...]
{ all posts, horticulture in ireland } { 0 comments }cutting down hedges…
….is wrong!! According to Neil Faulkes… not when it is the right thing to do. Pause. Please read on… Neil was the brains behind the hlai event that took place at Sonairte Ecology centre Saturday 7th February ’09 – on hedge laying. I went along. I didn’t realise it was a course that was being [...]
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