recycle a garden giveaway #2

The last time I did a garden giveaway…. this is what happened – click here This time its a little different… lettuce plants in plug trays about 15 cobble stones varying sizes and colours about 170 and i might even throw in some fresh eggs oh and i’ve got a draftsmans drawing table as well [...]

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m9, m7, m50, m1, mmmmmm….

I’ve been working near The Curragh recently and my journey is one that sees me up at around 6am each morning. No problemo! A big bowl of porridge, a lovely brew of fresh ground coffee and I’m on my way… I’m a happy go lucky kind of chappie. I work long hours, but then I [...]

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plants require passports…?

it is so very true… One may wonder why but it is in fact very necessary. So that I don’t bore you to absolute tears – I’m gonna break this post up into two/ three parts. But I’ll try and keep it short and to the point. The first will give you a general gist; [...]

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herbaceous plants

herbaceous adj designating plants that are soft stemmed rather than woody herbaceous border n a flower bed that contains perennials rather than annuals [source collins paperback dictionary] In ordinary lingo, a herbaceous plant is one that although is more like a shrub rather than a bedding plant; it will come up year after year [ie. [...]

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to bloom or not to…

bloom …that is was the question. The search had been put out for my intended prop for Bloom 2009 but show gardens require a lot more than that. I have learnt that one the hard way. It does require [a lot of] months preparation and hard work. It is not for the faint hearted. It [...]

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longlisted for the irish blog awards…

as this is my first time to be nominated for the blog awards… the process was a little new to me and ‘maybe’ to you. I have written about it before – but that was because I was nominated. Now, I have been longlisted. As a brief by the way there are two official blog [...]

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photosynthesis – a useful equation

photosynthesis: n [in plants] the process by which a green plant uses sunlight to build up carbohydrate reserves. it is so to speak plants using the suns light to make its own food. It is that simple… ? The equation above basically says that if a plant takes in carbon dioxide [6CO2]/ air + [6H2O] [...]

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small garden… any ideas?

Whether small or large, the size is irrelevant, your garden should still be given the same amount of thought, detail and attention as any other. If you are looking for ideas, you’ve had enough of the January blues and February is the month you really need to make life that little bit brighter… Then here [...]

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nominated for the irish blog awards…

to my absolute delight i found out that my weblog has been nominated for the Irish Blog Awards 2009. Why does a gardener blog – click here & read. It may just make sense… That said – awards or not, it is because of *you* that I write and to be simply nominated is reason [...]

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thomas… thursday garden guest #10

If you would like to know more about Thursday Garden Guest time – click here For the moment the writer in the finalé of this series is Thomas & Máire of Irish Allotments. It’s quite fitting that through the series of articles we have had the botantist, the plant hobby-ist right down to the one [...]

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[another] 9 great gifts for a gardener this christmas

For any garden enthusiast you might know here are my suggestions that ARE 1000% better than socks and a CD. If you prefer cooked turkey and a kiss under the mistletoe over a good scrap with the mother in law and some frozen sprouts..? Here’s my thinking cap – put it on this year for [...]

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a deer christmas …?

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the poetry of plants [reviewed]

Saturday 15th November 2008, from 2-5pm saw four guest speakers take the stand for The Lewis Glucksman Memorial Symposium. What must have been a near full auditorium in the Edmund Burke Theatre in Trinity College [sponsored by Bloom and in association with Dublin City Library]. Chaired by Professor Moray McGowan; The first speaker was Dr [...]

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dicksonia antartica

also known as the man/ soft/ wooly tree fern; they remind me of big old cigars with grass groing out of the tops of them… but these guys are so amazing. A genus of semi/ evergreen ferns the trunks as they appear are really a rhizome [another days post] covered with roots of sorts. They [...]

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Damien… Thursday garden guest #4

If you’d like to know more about Thursday garden guest time – click here For the moment writer #4 is Damien Mulley. When I first suggested that I do a garden guest slot… suprisingly, possibly, the first person to contact me on twitter was Damien. He owns Mulley Communications runs the Irish Blog Awards; the [...]

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