As you all know my favourite pastimes are English, (reading, teaching and visiting sites from lives of authors or novels) and gardening. Every June I visit Dublin on 16th June, Bloomsday, to follow the meanderings of Stephen and Leopold. Next blog will be about this I hope, But this year I thought I would also like to visit Bloom, (the garden festival). As we were planning a family trip for the bank holiday weekend (another blog perhaps), I thought I would not be able to go, but on Tuesday as I left work I met the gardener from the centre’s organic gardening section and she asked if I would like to visit BLOOM!!!! there were places on the minibus and the centre had tickets! (A freebie!!!)
On Thursday 2nd June we set off for Bloom. the weather was great, we got the best weather so far this year. The food there was also great, not forgetting the plants! The gardens were brilliant. The two photos above are from Bloom. I didn’t buy anything cause I didn’t want to lug plants home and the man at the Friday market in Askeaton has good plants. I bought some from him the next morning.
Now for a tour of my garden. Thanks to my friends and family my garden is looking good this year and will be even better in a month’s time. The first photo is of the pathway and tree borders that Joseph built. The one on the right is of my chicken run. the chickens posed for the photo, or maybe they expected food!
These next two are of my vegetable patches that the youth from the church helped me to prepare. I have had spring onions and rhubarb so far and the rest are doing well, unfortunately the weeds are thriving too!.
Here is the seat under the willow that Mairtin designed and made. This is the best spot to sit on a hot day, many of which we are about to get this summer. On the right is the latest section I have planted and set some summer flowering seeds also. The patch is a bit bigger that the came out in the photo, photography is not one of my hobbies.
This is the front of the house with Kevin trying to tidy quickly before I took the photo. Lovely red jumper to stand out against the white background. He waters the baskets and digs when put on the pressure, not an enthusiastic gardener I am afraid! but a good laundry worker, (no photos included of the clothes line as I do not air my clean washing in public).
The View from our bedroom is my favourite and this section is the first we worked on. Kevin and I dug out the pond and Elaine’s dogs dug the liner up so we filled it in to make a bog. Two of our dogs, Bonny and Gromit are buried in this section, Bonny is under a Sally and Gromit was under the Eucalyptus but it died this winter and Jaf cut it down the other day so now he is under the gap in the lawn. My cat Pishwish was buried in a rockery that has since been covered by the garage and drive. The clematis on the archway died this winter. Most of our hedging died also.
This overgrown shrubbery below is also one of the first things planted. Joseph and his friends picked out stones and I paid them 50p a bucket full I think, Then I planted the shrubs and Alec has trimmed them a number of times. The past two really cold winters we had killed some of them and the rest seemed to grown faster then usual!
Sorry to anyone not interested in gardening, but that’s all for now. Now that I know how to add photos I will write soon. Bye.
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