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 }Buy Plants and Products
Whether you are building your own garden and have a list of plants in mind or simply recreating a part of your garden and require only the finest plants sourced and selected specifically for your home. From instant mature trees, hedges or shrubs to high impact specimen plants, I source only from the very best [...]
{ all posts, services } { One comment }Bloom 2010
As always you can rss the podcasts via iTunes or direct via audioboo To all things Bloom, once again, I quote myself from last year: To only mention the gardens is, maybe, what I should be doing…. but, as a garden builder and designer at Bloom – they are all [seriously] amazing and I simply [...]
{ all posts, courses/ gigs/ events } { 7 comments }Webber Moth
This is an odd one. A message came in follwed by an email with three photographs [the first 3 - see below - the rest followed shortly after] of what I was told was the tent caterpillar. Which is correct-ish. But not, because the the [eastern] tent caterpillar moth Malacosoma americanum is from [eastern] North [...]
{ all posts, garden advice } { 0 comments }Irish Times 31st May 2010
I got a call last week from Conor. He was doing this article on Grow Your Own and asked for some thoughts. To the pieces I know that I have written that may refer to my quotes below. Grow your own kits cheaper than B and Q. I think it’s a logic alternate piece. There [...]
{ all posts, media } { 2 comments }Water Conservation
Today I discovered some of plant collection had been, put simply, close on fried. It’s rare for me to complain about the weather…. but here’s my situation. For gardens that are new, or newly planted [Hi Julie and Terry ],for best results and knowing that the hose must be used…. try water at night time. [...]
{ all posts, garden advice } { One comment }April In The Garden
You’d know from the ‘March in the Garden’ post that I had just sown my seeds. Well germinated at this stage, the above photograph shows the results after just after 2 weeks. Growth is starting, slowly but surely and it seems to me we’re going to be on for a cracker of a season! I’d [...]
{ all posts, garden advice } { 3 comments }The Grow Your Own Gardening Class
It was a weekend ago that I decided to do the grow your own gardening course. And whilst the weather turned good I had to wait ’til now to do my synopsis of it. How did it go…? Louise did a review under the title dirty fingernails and Jason reviewed it under the title some [...]
{ all posts, courses/ gigs/ events } { 10 comments }straw grass…?
I get loads of these…. some one liners…. some emails. Some without pictures But I try my best and quite enjoy answering them being honest Email in on Saturday from Melanie. Hi Peter, Thanks for this, myself and Alex are full of enthusiasm for the garden at the moment but neither of us have much [...]
{ all posts, garden advice } { 0 comments }Gardening…. It’s Kids Stuff
You may remember I was asked to do a gardening class at the La Leche League of Ireland annual conference. On Saturday 6th March I travelled to Maynooth Co. Kildare to do just that. I know I’ll be doing a gardening course soon, but, there are some obvious major differences in the populus breakdown of [...]
{ all posts, courses/ gigs/ events } { 2 comments }The Right Time To Grow
With high day time temperatures, the sun factor increasing the warmth in the greenhouse well above the the teens and night time temperatures in the minus…. I could almost do a piece here on autumn colour but… it’s March and there are no leaves on the trees. So instead the resulting problem and piece is [...]
{ all posts, garden advice } { One comment }March In The Garden
I haven’t done an ‘In the garden‘ session so far this year. Mainly because, well… I guess the snow, the rain, the cold and in such abundance just got a bit too much for me. Anyhow, that aside, it’s time to get grooving and moving and here is why and what I will be doing [...]
{ all posts, garden advice } { 0 comments }Fireblight
Two of the photographs above are of a collection of Sorbus trees that I had in my garden. They are now nothing but a pile of ashes. The sorbus you see are members of the rosaceae or rose family – the most of which are susceptible to a disease known as fireblight. The first thing [...]
{ all posts, garden advice } { 0 comments }So You Wish To Sow Seeds
Of course I have written pieces on this before but…. now is the time to get grooving in the seedling department…. It is one of the simplest things one can do. The beauty about these wieghtless flecks of dust is that one doesn’t need a vast area of space. One simply needs an area anything [...]
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