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Everglades Gardens at Leura
A few months ago, I was asked fellow garden blogger Britt Conley from the Photo Garden Bee to partake in a photo meme. For the post I...
Blackthorn, Shillelaghs and the tree of the fairies, the Hawthorn
Blackthorn (Prunus spinosa) Draigean (Gaelic name) This native Irish tree may be known by its Latin name Prunus spinosa or one of its...
Shell House ‘Nautilus’ New Mexico
A few months back while researching for my post The Shell House at Ballymaloe Cookery School, I came across this very different and quite...
‘Its fruit Jim, but not as we know it’
So the sun is finally shining here in Ireland and the plant growth, more than a month behind is finally bursting into life. All this good...
Stone Chairs. Some ancient some not so ancient…Yet….
One of my favourite things to build is stone seats. There is something very special about sitting in a stone seat, it feels very grand,...
‘Extinct’ plant flowers, in Dublin’s National Botanical Gardens
This is a story I have just come across, posted on the RHS website. Apparently just a few minutes drive from where I am sitting, in the...
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