Bunbeg Strand, County Donegal 6.30 am and the sun was splitting the sky while I drove down the road to Dublin airport. Tears were still dripping off my chin as I approached Newry. I could still picture my sister standing in
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Believing in Belfast
I think that when you leave a place you remember it in your minds eye the way it was not when you last saw it, but when you first got to know the place. I moved to Belfast in 1987. I
Gardening in the old country.
It’s been so wet this week in Ireland that even the stone statues in my Mum’s garden are taking shelter! My Husband and I flew home last Friday, the day after the Master Gardener graduation. It’s only rained twice in
Master Gardener Graduation – the icing on the cake!
It struck the fear of God in me when my husband offered to carry the cake out to the car. Now, you may call that an overreaction, but you just have to see this cake! I’m not saying my husband
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Thyme for tea.
Inspired by a Master Gardener talk at Guadalupe Gardens, I went home in a foraging frame of mind. Joan, the speaker and also my mentor during Master Gardener training, had mentioned making herbal tea and I was eager to experiment.
Some ideas are better than others!
Yep, The hottest day of the year to date and of course what happens? My free wood chips arrived from my arborist pals at Andersons Tree Care. Thus, I arrived home today to a driveway full of aromatic, bug inviting
Sweet surprises and possible massacres
What’s not to love about sweetpea? They have beautiful flowers in a variety of colors. They can be free standing (bush-type), though many are climbers, but as annuals they never get invasive or heavy enough to overwhelm a structure, and
Easter Bunny time!
Did you know that the Easter Bunny poops Jelly Beans? So I am reliably informed by my four-year-old chum, David. He has it on high authority that the colours of each jelly bean are attributed to the food the Easter
The only way is up, baby. (Think Yazz!)
Here’s what I did wrong last year: I had no planting plan and shoved things in where ever I could find a space. I planted my warm season veggies too early. I forgot to label a lot of things after
This one’s for you Daddy xo
Flowers always make me smile, especially when they remind me of loved ones. The last present my Daddy gave me before he died was a bunch of pink tulips. He apologized that his birthday present that year was so simple.