tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5078245683750900412024-03-13T17:26:41.314+00:00Tales from A GardenMusings and photos from a little suburban garden......and other random happenings as they occur!
Scatter seeds of kindness wherever you go!talesfromagardenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02853695502377101314noreply@blogger.comBlogger280125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-507824568375090041.post-89234928504991329262015-06-23T20:08:00.001+01:002015-06-23T20:08:26.460+01:00Garden in June<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
Lots of colour at the moment in the garden,we have had some sunshine through the clouds,very dry and humid at times,but the garden is enjoying the conditions!<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-RV0g1gpzKms/VYmsX0mUeBI/AAAAAAAAMcE/d25jUAEA62I/s1600/image.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-RV0g1gpzKms/VYmsX0mUeBI/AAAAAAAAMcE/d25jUAEA62I/s320/image.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>
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<br /><div class="blogger-post-footer">Posted by Kathleen @talesfromagarden.blogspot.com</div>talesfromagardenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02853695502377101314noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-507824568375090041.post-32160185979304796952015-05-13T14:42:00.000+01:002015-05-13T14:42:58.742+01:00May Garden!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
Just sharing a few pics of my garden as it's a lovely sunny day out there!<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-XFxRi2AMPzI/VVNR6nnFexI/AAAAAAAAKdw/KQFm1mx2ta4/s1600/image.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-XFxRi2AMPzI/VVNR6nnFexI/AAAAAAAAKdw/KQFm1mx2ta4/s320/image.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>
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Delighted with my two Clematis M ontana ,can't stop admiring them,blooms just keep coming!</div>
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Yes! Winter and all it's dark dreary cold days are beginning to recede! The weather forecast in my neck of the woods is still for more biting cold frost and ice and maybe snow to come but we have escaped so far from very bad conditions.Its been mighty cold recently which saw me indoors mostly looking out at the bare garden but I am enjoying looking at my snowdrops emerging and I am seeing one lone daffodil in flower too! Anyway here's to warmer weather on the way!<br />
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Some more photos of what's doing well in the month of June with some small additions! Above is a patio rose years old,always performs when I treat it with Roseclear at the first sign of black spot and conditions have been very helpful to this lately!<br />
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Last weekend my sister and I attended our 7th annual trip to Dublin to see Bloom in the Park,a festival run over the bank holiday weekend,showcasing all the best in food,flowers<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-fWRBnF2To1s/U48AjD2s3lI/AAAAAAAAFto/Nz8E5aGDWjE/s1600/IMAGE_109.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-fWRBnF2To1s/U48AjD2s3lI/AAAAAAAAFto/Nz8E5aGDWjE/s1600/IMAGE_109.jpg" height="240" width="320" /></a>and everything to do with gardening!</div>
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There were 23 show gardens to see,an indoor floral pavilion,and many,many stalls/shops selling all sorts! Cookery/gardening demos and a fashion show as well.Something for everyone.It is all all on display in the Phoenix Park, Dublin. It differs from Chelsea in that it is billed as a family day out,children admitted free,and lots of activities laid on to entertain them!<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-iTWSg4RH0dc/U48Af1aGBrI/AAAAAAAAFtI/seZjCJ5oH8E/s1600/IMAGE_106.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-iTWSg4RH0dc/U48Af1aGBrI/AAAAAAAAFtI/seZjCJ5oH8E/s1600/IMAGE_106.jpg" height="240" width="320" /></a>Alliums standing tall!</div>
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Happy Gardening!<div class="blogger-post-footer">Posted by Kathleen @talesfromagarden.blogspot.com</div>talesfromagardenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02853695502377101314noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-507824568375090041.post-70759350552683963572014-04-06T18:15:00.001+01:002014-04-06T18:15:28.733+01:00April GardenPictures no sound! Just going to upload photos from my garden that are nice eye candy at the moment,trying to add text after each photo is proving impossible as only two photos appear at any time and I can't seem to be able to sort the problem on my IPad at the moment!<br />
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<div class="blogger-post-footer">Posted by Kathleen @talesfromagarden.blogspot.com</div>talesfromagardenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02853695502377101314noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-507824568375090041.post-49877976005816781832014-03-17T14:00:00.000+00:002014-03-17T14:03:08.805+00:00St.Patricks Day!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: lime;">Happy St.Patricks Day to all,enjoy the day !🍀🍀🍀🍀</span><div class="blogger-post-footer">Posted by Kathleen @talesfromagarden.blogspot.com</div>talesfromagardenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02853695502377101314noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-507824568375090041.post-45874295996812905342014-03-10T15:18:00.000+00:002014-03-10T15:18:04.855+00:00Sunshine!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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What a beautiful sunny day here in the south of Ireland today! Clear blue sky,with a little warmth there too! A perfect day to capture some nice pics of the few blooms I have in the garden.I hope to fill in the blanks soon!<br />
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After a few weeks of horrible weather since Christmas the days are getting longer and a little brighter at last.We were very lucky that we suffered no great damage in the recent stormy weather,just a timber rose arch blown over and a waterlogged front garden but nothing major.</div>
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Hope everyone is enjoying this festive season hopefully with family and friends !<br />
On the night of the 18th December,hubby and I had the great pleasure of attending our very first Andre Rieu concert at the O2 venue in Dublin.We endured a less than pleasant drive up from Cork due to adverse weather conditions but got there in time to check in to our overnight hotel and get to the concert in record time! It was worth all the hassle needless to say,a packed arena and a great night was had by all! Following are a selection of photos from the event......<br />
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The ever changing background threw up some shapes!<br />
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Right showing the packed arena!<br />
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Beautiful backdrops,costumes and tenors and sopranos,it had it all!<br />
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And here we are at the end of a most enjoyable show,cant wait to go again!<div class="blogger-post-footer">Posted by Kathleen @talesfromagarden.blogspot.com</div>talesfromagardenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02853695502377101314noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-507824568375090041.post-77890338626050443752013-12-03T11:15:00.003+00:002013-12-03T11:15:44.132+00:00The time of year...........<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Well its getting closer and closer .......Christmas of course! It hardly seems like a year since the decorations were stored away and here we are decorating and shopping again!<br />
Leafing through magazines my daughter brought home from her travels in France and Spain,and a few her American friend brought to her,I think I definitely Under decorate!! Imagine taking all that down I said to her about a heavily decorated tree,perish the thought!Anyway.we are enjoying very mild temps.for the time of year here,cannot remember a good rainy day recently,so great weather for being out and about! Following are a few pics from when I started the home decor,tree no.2 which will be a real tree has yet to be installed,so I am delaying a while so it is still green by the big day itself! This gi normous cone on the left was picked from the ground last summer during our holiday in the Loire Valley,brought home a good few though not all this size!<br />
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I christened this tree my recession tree,as it cost me 14.99 euros in my local Super Valu! Standing at a questionable 6ft it does the job when trimmed with lights (I also reverted to coloured ones this year instead of stark white)more traditional I think!<br />
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My favourite is my front door with this great sign daughter C brought back from Florida,Disneyland of course!<br />
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This rustic heart was given free in a Spanish magazine that my daughter brought home,I added the berries and wrote the year with a sharpie!<br />
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Christmas Glow is the name given to the festival in Cork City this year,we also have a ferris wheel that gives views over the city for 3.00! Nothing like the size of the London Eye but still good!<br />
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So the clocks have gone back in our little corner of the world and its now dark outside at 5.50pm as I write! The south coast of England is threatened with a bad storm and we may get the left-overs at some point!Batten down the hatches weather!<br />
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Just had to share this little snippet I read in a magazine today though........<br />
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The article was on the subject of life skills and self-acceptance............<br />
"An elderly Chinese woman had two large pots,each hung on the ends of a pole which she carried across her neck.One of the pots had a crack in it while the other pot was perfect and always delivered a full portion of water.At the end of the long walk from the stream to the house,the cracked pot arrived only half full.<br />
For a full two years this went on daily,with the woman bringing home only one and a half pots of water.<br />
Of course,the perfect pot was proud of its accomplishments.But the poor cracked pot was ashamed of its own imperfection,and miserable that it could only do half of what it had been made to do.After 2 years of what it perceived to be bitter failure,it spoke to the woman one day by the stream.<br />
"I am ashamed of myself,because this crack in my side causes water to leak out all the way back to your house."<br />
The old woman smiled,"Did you notice that there are flowers on your side of the path,but not on the other pot's side?""Thats because I have always known about your flaw,so I planted flower seeds on your side of the path,and everyday while we walk back,you water them." "For two years I have been able to pick these beautiful flowers to decorate the table,without you being just the way you are,there would not be this beauty to grace the house."<br />
Each of us has our own unique flaw,but its the cracks and flaws we each have that make our lives together so very interesting and rewarding.You have just got to take each person for what they are and look for the good in them.<br />
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Last Saturday was a lovely autumn day here,for a few hours at least so I was happy to spend it out in the patch doing a bit of a clean up! Plenty of weeds to hoe and plants and shrubs that needed pruning or removing.I was more than happy with the result as I usually leave this job too late and the whole place looks a mess before I attempt any clean up.<br />
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Some photos of the results,I can plan for next year now,get more of some plants and fill in with bulbs in other spots.<br />
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I will be first in the queue at my local gardening centre(Ballygarvan)for these beauties,I bought three bedding gerbera last year and they still havent stopped flowering,I must have got them around April or May.The plant itself is so fresh and green and the leaves never yellowed or withered all Summer long and still there are buds coming!Great value for money!<br />
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The holly growing in the shade of the acer on the right,this holly was about two leaves in a tiny pot when I bought it years ago at Christmas,I planted it out and it took forever to get this big but it is in the way of the Acer so maybe I will have to trim back that rather than risk moving the holly!<br />
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The gerbera still budding and two others above.<br />
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The Torbay Dazzler left,this was reduced to nothing after the severe frosts a couple of years ago,we left the stump and hey presto! it came back again in the form of 4 plants!<br />
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I replaced my two blue pots that held small palms with these red cordylines much nicer!<br />
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The debris before it was removed!<br />
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As promised some pics of our recent holiday to the Loire Valley in France......this was the lovely gite we stayed in I expected a cottage/bungalow but got a fine two storey house instead,very spacious!We rented through www.holidaylettings.co.uk/210136.Our hosts were lovely people,and very helpful in every way but not intruding on our holiday!<br />
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Our gite was a gardeners paradise,lots of colourful hanging baskets everywhere!<br />
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This and the following two pics were of a home and garden in the vicinity of where we stayed,we used cycle past most evenings,what a stunning garden,no detail overlooked.<br />
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Hubby and myself by the banks of the Loire in Saumur.<br />
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Sunflower fields<br />
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The chateau in Langleais(spelling?)<br />
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Chateau in Montserou (spelling?)<br />
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Found this much wanted swimming facility nearby,a beautiful Municipal park,La Capiteine.<br />
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The train station in Tours<br />
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Me indulging in my favourite french passtime,sampling the coffee and pastries!We returned here a few times to this little patisserie in Borgeuil!<br />
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Happy Gardening!<div class="blogger-post-footer">Posted by Kathleen @talesfromagarden.blogspot.com</div>talesfromagardenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02853695502377101314noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-507824568375090041.post-25259526654950555052013-07-30T21:38:00.002+01:002013-07-30T21:38:57.593+01:00Back to Blogging<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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Hello all!<br />
After a bit of a holiday from the blog I am catching up again slowly.I blame the Ipad I was given at Christmas for a present!I have nearly forgotten how to use the keyboard and as I cannot use blogger and upload photos onto it the blog was on holidays! Its like learning all over again.As the Ipad is touch screen I have been dabbing every electronic device I use with my finger,habits form quickly!<br />
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Anyway just a little snippet of what I have been up to since last March, sis and I visited the centenerary Chelsea Flower Show which unfortunately for us decided to rain on our parade for the day we were there,Fri. However it was still brilliant and we got to see Alan Titchmarsh and Chris Beardshaw up close and personal!<br />
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A week later we paid our annual pilgrimage to our own excellent flower show,Bloom held in the Phoenix Park,Dublin,which was good to us weather wise and proved a great day out again.<br />
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Mallow Homes and Garden Festival was next on the agenda,a 30 min.car journey from home,I must locate some photos,which was also another great gardeners delight!<br />
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After all that I needed a holiday so France it was......again......I never get tired of it!<br />
This time we travelled by ferry to Cherbourg and onwards to the Loire Valley for two weeks R&R,we travelled to Tours and Saumur and other little towns and villages and saw some chateaux!<br />
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Back soon with more photos when I get into the groove of Blogger again!<div class="blogger-post-footer">Posted by Kathleen @talesfromagarden.blogspot.com</div>talesfromagardenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02853695502377101314noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-507824568375090041.post-59298059721577346812013-03-17T16:25:00.000+00:002013-03-17T16:25:18.847+00:00St.Patricks Day!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Irish Coffee<br />
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Gaelic games on TV(hurling)!<br />
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Wearing something green!<br />
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To everyone who wishes they were Irish today! Happy Gardening!<div class="blogger-post-footer">Posted by Kathleen @talesfromagarden.blogspot.com</div>talesfromagardenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02853695502377101314noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-507824568375090041.post-4064002791265421312013-03-08T11:20:00.003+00:002013-03-08T11:20:51.946+00:00Spring has sprung!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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A few pictures of whats blooming in my back and front garden at the moment!<br />
Snowdrops at their best now.<br />
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Tete a tete all over the place brightening up the garden.<br />
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Paperwhites about to bloom!<br />
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Tete a tete<br />
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Hellebores<br />
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Wild primrose<br />
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More tete a tete<br />
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Campanula peeking through<br />
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Violet primrose<br />
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A solitary camellia with plenty more to come<br />
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Heather in the front<br />
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Plants surrounding the pond on their way<br />
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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.<br />
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!<br />
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These cloches featured all over the garden too.<br />
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