St.Patricks Day!

 Irish Coffee

 Gaelic games on TV(hurling)!

 Wearing something green!

To everyone who wishes they were Irish today!    Happy Gardening!

Spring has sprung!

 A few pictures of whats blooming in my back and front garden at the moment!
Snowdrops at their best now.

 Tete a tete all over the place brightening up the garden.

 Paperwhites about to bloom!

 Tete a tete

 Hellebores

 Wild primrose

 More tete a tete

 And yet more

 Campanula peeking through

 Violet primrose

 A solitary camellia with plenty more to come

 Heather in the front

Plants surrounding the pond on their way









Happy Gardening!

Snowdrop Season

 Well the first signs of Spring are visible all around,with little colourful heads of crocus and snowdrops coming up! Last weekend I was lucky enough to catch an open garden visit,held in aid of our local hospice,where these beautiful snowdrops and some hellebores were well up over ground and in full bloom.
My snowdrops are barely breaking the surface at the moment but these are not your common or garden snowdrops maybe they are hybrid and respond of course to the care and attention given by the gardener of the house!There were so many varieties,all named with their individual stickers.The day was not too kind weather wise but I was fortunate to go early in the morning before the rain arrived in the afternoon!

 These cloches featured all over the garden too.

Stone troughs.

A New Year!

Well Christmas 2012 has come and gone,thankfully it passed off well with no disasters! We enjoyed our turkey and ham dinner with all the trimmings! My gifts this year included an IPad which I love!I also have a day spa to look forward too!

Happy New Year to all,may it be healthy and peaceful!

Onwards and upwards now to gardening matters and the coming Spring!My snowdrops are well up over ground now and I planted lots of daffy and tulips out front too so I am looking forward to a colourful show in springtime!

happy Gardening!

Christmassy Stuff!

 The interior of the English Market in the city centre of Cork,decorated for the season.

 Outside on St. Patricks St. our main thoroughfare.

 Grand Parade

Tis the Season................

 Made a start on putting up the Christmas decor this weekend,just a little,as we discovered when bringing the boxes down from storage,that the wrong tree had been disposed of last year!
Now we have to purchase two new artificial trees for the two rooms we decorate each year!

 Bought this new this year,I am a sucker for all things candlelight and love their glowing effect.Dressed up the base with some pinecones and red berried shrub from the garden and some glass beading.

 The always inviting Christmas cookery book,again bought on impulse this year(only €4.99)the cover looks so inviting!

 The local Cork City Christmas Market opened this weekend on the Grand Parade.Beautiful blue skies in the morning but later returned to grey skies and misty rain.

 Love the Santa Hat roof tops on these cabins!

 Toy soldiers standing to attention in the Bishop Lucey Park which is transformed into a Christmas Wonderland for the next 4 weeks.

 Inside the Merchants Quay Shopping Centre.

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The Blue Hour over the city on Oliver Plunkett St.