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A SUB-TROPICAL WILDERNESS
This is what I choose to call our garden at this moment, a sub-tropical wilderness. It all happened in a week or so of soft rain during the beginning of July, come to think of it there was an awful...
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a BEAUTIFUL GARDEN INFLUENCED BY CHRISTOPHER LLOYD OF GREAT DIXTER
One of the most fine and inspiring gardens on the West Cork Garden Trail is situated near Dunmanway. It is the Aultaghreagh Cottage Garden which is beautifully created by Christine and Leslie Wilson...
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A SHORT VISIT TO lIER IN BELGIUM
Some weeks ago now I had the opportunity to visit my native country again for a short time. So it was with delight that I departed from Dublin airport to arrive to the welcome of my dear sister...
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AUTUMN’S GRAND FINALE
“Fall has always been my favorite season. The time when everything bursts with its last beauty, as if nature had been saving up all year for the grand finale”.Lauren DeStefano Willow- leaves...
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november garden
The wonders we discover in an November garden, the colours, the textures, the unexpected plants, the fungi, or still the odd insect flying around, and sucking nectar from the autumn flowers which...
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COLOUR AND TEXTURE IN THE WINTER GARDEN
‘Every gardener know that under the cloak of winter lies a miracle, a seed waiting to sprout, a bulb opening to the light, a bud straining to unfurl. And the anticipation nurtures our dream’ B.Winkler...
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Nature on CHRISTMAS EVE
All is calm in our little town on this Christmas Eve, the only sounds in our street are the wind howling and the odd car passing. It seems that people are all heading towards home, the shops are...
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SILENT NATURE WALK ON SUNNY SUNDAY MORNING IN JANUARY
On this first Sunday morning of the New Year I decided to visit the small seaside village of Union Hall in West Cork. It lies just 15 minutes drive from where we live and though it had frozen during...
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TAKING TIME OUT
Nice walk along the N71 surrounding Skibbereen town. River Illen flows through the town and has many different faces, this time a faint reflexion of the blue sky and some light white clouds. In the...
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THE STORY OF THE KALANCHOE PLANT
The story of the Kalanchoe blossfeldiana is a nice one, at least in our household it is. Over the years I was often given one of these plants, and that in a variety of colours, red, white, yellow and...
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OVERWINTERING HERBS IN WEST CORK
Rosemary – this plant is three years old Currently it is the time to take stock and make plans for this coming growing season. I have done a little of that, and I’ve also gone through my last years...
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