I take a lot of photos. Most just while I’m out and about. Some in a garden, some not. Some I just found intrigued me. Rather than simply delete them, I felt I should do something with them. As a btw I’ve tried to keep repeats and sets of images out.
If the mood strikes me, I’ll do it for December….
On the first day of Christmas my true love gave to me….
The following are 10 gifts for the person in your life who may or not, be the ultimate gardener or more simply the ultimate garden lover. Have a browse or let me know what you think…. contact details at the bottom.
A makeover, a facelift… you may simply require that little extra professional touch to brighten up the front or back garden for or after the festive season. Planted exactly to your liking or positioned to brighten up that apartment, existing garden or balcony.
For the office or home, for inside or out. One for the entire office or one just for Mary. Culinary or colour or simply pretty and inviting. A living gift that will last that little bit longer….
Your trees or tall shrubs can be fruiting and small and or native and tall. Planted on your date of choice or delivered straight to your loved ones door.
An existing garden needing something that little bit more unique and one off. How about a garden feature made especially for you ?
You may wish to do the job yourself but you simply do not know where to start. Book a day with yours truly to get the best from your garden in your garden. Your very own garden class, a consultation, plant shopping or a garden layout.
Scheduled, time-lines, products and plants. All drawn and planned – all in order, organised and tailor-made to suit your budget and your space in your great outdoors.
The hedge, the trees the lawn. It may not be the Phoenix Park but sometimes the arms of others are better used, letting you get on with the things that matter more.
Fancy your very own garden class just for you and your group. A day out in your garden or at your place of work. Green by grow your own or specific to the more amenity side of the garden, maybe you’d like to mix them both… The choice is yours. All materials can be supplied and times to suit yourself.
If you fancy giving it all a try yourself…. all of the pieces to complete the puzzle hand-picked, delivered and wrapped if you wish. All of the garden products you could ever need to complete the tasks at hand or to put that final addition to that great outdoors.
Pop me an email or pick up the phone. You can as always contact me via:
Some of these I have reviewed before here, others I simply never got around to it. What you might like to know is that these are all books from my own library.
No matter what level or age of gardener [or not] you are, the video will give you a decent enough browse through to help you decide if it is one for you or not – and if you are still unsure – you can always leave a comment below.
In no particular order the books noted are:
I think the video explains it better than text ever could the coryllus avellana ‘Contorta’ or commonly known Corkscrew hazel and the maintenance steps I need to take to bring it back to its glory days for the coming season.
For those who might like to know, I thought these the most helpful of definitions:
Reversion: 3. Genetics A return to the normal phenotype, usually by a second mutation
or
Reversion: n 1 return to an earlier condition, practice, or belief 2. Biol the return of individuals or organs to a more primitive condition or type
In all of the gardens I have ever owned [2] I have always had one of these plants. I don’t entirely know why. Part of me always wondered if it knew it were an oddball alone in the plant world and/ or just what it was thinking when it began returning to normal.
More than that I always loved how when everything else was going to sleep for the winter like some sort of Cinderella, this fellow took the stage and became so amazingly beautiful - only for it to return to contorted just as everything else was waking up.
How the plant kingdom will never cease to amaze me and why I love it so much.
Clontarf District and Gardening Society – Soils and Aspect
Balbriggan Educate Together School – Green Gardening Certificate
Fingal Libraries – Wintery Gardens
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