9th June

…– CHW Our hotel is Wolesley Lodge, a spanking new product of the Irish golfing boom and bust, just outside Tullow which, as a town, would rank below Redruth in…

12th April

…at The Vean before reconstruction and the Top Lodge before tarmac covered them. They were proper Irish ‘gypsy’ violets and these are all that remain today. Pity! wild violets Magnolia…

7th June

…a picture or two on my phone suitably blurred by Irish hospitality. clearance work 2005 – FJW 2 flowers on Camellia Kimberley – Rho stamineum flowering very well. 1909 –…

30th April

…the Irish Garden Plant Society about the Marchioness of Londonderry, Lady Edith, who created the garden at Mount Stewart and her granddaughter Lady Rose with whom we had lunch. article…

19th April

…Staphylea trifolia Staphylea trifolia 2018 – CHW Day four of the Irish trip – click for full details. Overnight at Ballyvolane House and onwards to Mount Congreve. Mount Congreve House…

18th April

Irish trip – A long drive to visit two island gardens near Sneem on the coast. Rossdohan House 2017 – CHW A trip to the greenhouses to select some plant…

17th April

…Sorbus coloneura Lindera umbellata in flower. Not that exciting! Lindera umbellata 2018 – CHW Day two of the Irish trip with a visit to Bantry House and Illnacullen Island. We…

16th April

…The start of our Irish trip. Team photo 2017 – CHW A newish clump of Rhododendron ‘Blue Diamond’ below Donkey Shoe. This seems a rather paler form than I remember…

15th April

…x martinianum Rhododendron williamsianum x martinianum 2018 – CHW We are off on a tour of Irish gardens for four days so there will be a pause in the diary.Much…

1st February

…now in extreme old age. The Irish yew is not and neither is the enormous Virginia creeper to be seen on the main tower which I remember being cut down…

April 2024 Ireland Trip (Day 2)

…at Ilnacullin during a previous Irish garden trip. Ercilla volubilis Ercilla volubilis Populus maximowiczii was superb. Astonishing flower tassels. A record tree at Rowallane and something we definitely need to…