…– 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…

…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…

…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 –…

…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…

…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…

…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…

…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…

…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…

…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…

…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…

…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…