tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7326764810993759242024-03-06T00:13:12.434-08:00Kelli's Northern Ireland GardenMy garden diary in County Antrim, Northern Ireland.Kellihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06263430746482725687noreply@blogger.comBlogger470125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-732676481099375924.post-65245283970071886222017-03-10T03:00:00.000-08:002017-03-10T03:00:03.427-08:00Wood Pallets and Vertical Planting<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I love all the amazing projects using old (and new) wood pallets, like these vertical planters. So creative! Quite eye catching! And quite easy and fun to make.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Photo left, and most of those below, were taken at 'Bloom' garden show in Dublin (what a fantastic annual garden show - highly recommended.) They have inspired me to make my own vertical planter for the garden - however its now in winter hibernation and needs some TLC in the coming months before I freshen it up.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">What a great way to recycle an old drinks crate!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I've been in a deep Winter slumber and haven't been into the garden for several months. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">However, March is here and I've got the 'gardening bug' so I'm itching to get back out into gardening. Over the weekend I started my garden 'spring clean'. Lots of tidying to do.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I've been looking through magazines and old photos to get some inspiration. A few photos taken last year that give a bit of inspiration this time of year...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Pallet projects seem to be really popular in the UK and USA. These photos were taken last year at gardening shows and at a community garden. What a great way to recycle and have a bit of fun. Pallets are often free of charge so this is a great low cost way to add some new pieces to the garden!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It's almost apple harvesting time, and this is a very exciting year for me! </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I have a bumper crop of 43 apples!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Six years ago I bought a self pollinating apple tree that I have grown in a pot. Over the years, I've averaged 13 apples each year (expect in 2013 when I had 0 apples). This year I've taken extra care; I've ensured the tree didn't dry out; I was careful in Spring and throughout Summer to take off leaves infected by little green caterpillars that ALWAYS infest the tree and eat the apples. I have fed and fertilized. (And I pruned last year).</span></div>
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Kellihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06263430746482725687noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-732676481099375924.post-90097777014684756152016-09-11T09:42:00.000-07:002016-09-11T09:43:07.812-07:00Summer Harvests<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Its been a busy summer and I've had lots of good eating from the garden! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I'm involved in two community growing projects and have my own garden to look after so most of my spare time over the Summer has been gardening!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The community growing projects are great in that they involve other people who have an interest in gardening, and we've been able to share our crops. The veg in the first photo is from the community growing scheme. In our first year we've had lots of salad crops, spinach, chard, runner beans, courgette, cucumber, broad beans, parsley and potatoes. </span></div>
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Kellihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06263430746482725687noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-732676481099375924.post-90310443193046609332016-07-04T10:17:00.001-07:002016-07-04T10:17:37.543-07:00Irish Castle Gardening<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Over the weekend I visited Glenveagh Castle located in Glenveagh National Park in County Donegal, Ireland. This is a beautiful area of the Irish countryside and the castle grounds are quite impressive. Just a few photos taken in the rain! Even when raining, its beautiful! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">At one stage this estate was owned by an American from </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #545454; line-height: 18.2px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Philadelphia, who purchased it in 1937, and later gave it to the Irish government.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">More info on this can be viewed by c<a href="http://www.glenveaghnationalpark.ie/" target="_blank">licking here</a>. </span></div>
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Kellihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06263430746482725687noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-732676481099375924.post-92117156636671496252016-05-17T10:56:00.001-07:002016-05-17T10:56:10.406-07:00Gardening Guru - Monty Don<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">R<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">ecently I was involved in volunteering at the Garden Show event at Antrim Castle Gardens in Northern Ireland, and was lucky to attend a Question and Answer session with </span>Monty Don which was fab! Monty has many an interesting story to tell! Then I was lucky (again) to have a chance for him to sign my book.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Monty has quite a fan base in Northern Ireland. In fact, when I meet up with the community gardening group </span>on a Saturday morning, one of the first things anyone says is, 'did you see what Monty was up to on Gardener's World'!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Thanks Monty Don for signing my book!</span></div>
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Kellihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06263430746482725687noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-732676481099375924.post-80861870756625773742016-05-02T10:17:00.003-07:002016-05-02T10:17:52.775-07:00Harvesting Rhubarb<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The rhubarb is ready for harvesting!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Rhubarb is one of the most reliable plants I've grown over the years. Its an early-cropper, while many other plants are just coming into growth at this time.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I've always grown rhubarb in a slightly shady area of the garden. I generally mulch it once a year and leave it to its own devices. Two of my four plants are growing at different paces - this is luck and perfect for staggering the harvests a bit. I've no idea what variety I have as the plants were given to me by two different people.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">What to do with the rhubarb? I saw a recipe in Tesco (grocery store) magazine about a month back, stuck it on the fridge so I wouldn't misplace it, and waited for my rhubarb to grow big enough to harvest. This weekend I made 'Soured Cream and Rhubarb Tea Cake' - yummy! Above is a picture of the cake on the recipe page - always a bonus when what I make resembles the picutre! It tastes delicious</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">. Each serving has 23 grams of fat and 477 calories - no wonder it tastes so good! </span></div>
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Kellihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06263430746482725687noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-732676481099375924.post-25784273728738478822016-04-24T10:36:00.001-07:002016-04-24T10:36:59.675-07:00Harvesting Veg (radish, spring onion, mustard greens)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">There's not a whole lot of harvesting to be done at the minute (to be honest), but it's always a great feeling to be able to sow, grow, and eat something... and that something (currently) has been radishes, spring onion and giant mustard greens. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The radish were sown in March and harvested in April. Radishes only take about a month or so to grow into something edible. I had a bit of a glut of radishes but I discovered they are delicious in stir fry, and are also good cut in half and added to vegetable soup. Of course, the most common way of eating radishes is sliced and put into salad.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Radish are generally easy to grow. However, I recall, when I first started gardening, having quite a few unsuccessful attempts at growing them! </span><span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></div>
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<span style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Spring Onion and Mustard Greens 'Giant Red' were sown last year around August time. They over wintered and are now starting to put on growth and are ready to eat. The giant mustard greens, like their name, taste just like mustard and are great on burgers, sandwiches or in salad to spice up the flavour.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You may notice the net covering the veg - this is because stray cats seem to think my nicely turned soil is a 'loo' for them, so I have to net any vegetables that I grow. Suppose this is an issue many of us face (naughty cats)!</span></div>
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Kellihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06263430746482725687noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-732676481099375924.post-41963524868434045922016-04-12T01:00:00.000-07:002016-04-12T01:00:03.650-07:00Community Gardening<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">April is the start of the gardening season for me and I've been back up at Antrim Castle Gardens volunteering weekly in the gardens. The grounds are owned by the local Council and the space is wonderful to work in with very beautiful surroundings.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Last year we developed a new Cottage Garden that has been developed for the most part from recycled materials (logs, old castle gate, etc) and from plants that have been donated. This is really its first year and we're looking forward to seeing how it looks this Summer. Its a work in progress, particularly as our budget is very limited.</span></div>
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Kellihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06263430746482725687noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-732676481099375924.post-7011790305176271592016-04-09T08:32:00.001-07:002016-04-09T08:32:18.875-07:00Sunshine and hail stones<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This morning I was volunteering at Antrim Castle Gardens in the community gardens and the weather was gorgeous and sunny. I harvested radishes (which are tasty in stir fry), and prepared a new veg planting area where I'll plant climbing beans, a selection of courgette (zucchini) / squash, and a range of veg, grown from seed.</div>
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Heading home, I thought, 'happy days, I'll get out into the garden.' Suddenly the skies turned grey and a shower of hail stones came down. Typical of this time of year in Northern Ireland. You can see the hail stones in the photo above, in my low maintenance garden area.</div>
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Once again, there goes my plans for a day of gardening. Oh well, I'll do a bit of indoor garden planning!</div>
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Kellihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06263430746482725687noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-732676481099375924.post-43267223997363357582016-04-03T10:40:00.000-07:002016-04-05T11:41:40.742-07:00Rainy day project for the garden<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I feel a bit behind schedule but I have the rest of the month to sow seeds! </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; text-align: left;">So this weekend, I decided to work on mosaic butterflies for the garden. I took a night class last year and I had started various mosaic projects - one of which was four butterflies cut out of copper. I finished three of them in class and had one more to do - today's project!</span></div>
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Kellihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06263430746482725687noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-732676481099375924.post-46049369495269639252016-03-28T02:00:00.000-07:002016-03-28T02:00:08.139-07:00Getting Back into the Garden<br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I generally wait until April to start sowing seed and this year will be the same. My little plastic green house is great and comes in handy. This little 'tent' system is cheap; it cost about £10 and keeps plants warm and protected. I'll then harden them off and get them into the ground by late May / early June.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This year I'm upping my sowing of potatoes, onions and salad plants. Other plants I always sow:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I'm focusing quite a bit on salad plants this year and will grow a variety of lettuces for colour, shape/texture and taste. Another busy year for sure!</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">It's great to see the bees buzzing around the garden; here pictured feeding on Heather.</span></td></tr>
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Kellihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06263430746482725687noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-732676481099375924.post-16175655200498392482016-03-27T05:36:00.001-07:002016-03-27T05:36:57.054-07:00Happy Easter<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Kellihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06263430746482725687noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-732676481099375924.post-6848537429333419342016-03-09T12:59:00.002-08:002016-03-09T12:59:47.311-08:00The Beauty of Spring...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Just a few photos to show the beauty of late Winter, early Spring....</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: justify;">I</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: justify;">t's about a month until the official start to Spring... this time of year its lovely to see masses of </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: justify;">snowdrops and crocuses - sure signs that warmer weather is on its way.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: justify;">The great thing about crocuses and snowdrops is that they get bigger and better each year as they develop, and as the bulbs multiply</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"> underground. These are fab little plants that are worth investing in!</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">The dogwood Cornus shrub is best known for its brightly coloured stems in Winter. You may see in the photo that little buds are beginning to grow on some of the stems, indicating it's soon time to give it a hard prune. A job for the coming weeks.<br /><br />I've been in Winter slumber along with my garden, and now there's lots of tidying to do and preparations for Spring. Not long now until seeds will be sown.... March and April will be busy months!</span></td></tr>
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Kellihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06263430746482725687noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-732676481099375924.post-86664267620563148662015-12-23T04:20:00.000-08:002015-12-23T04:20:06.905-08:00Happy Holidays<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">The healthier option (?) - pretzels covered in dark chocolate and crushed candy cane, or pretzels covered in white chocolate and a walnut.</span></td></tr>
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Kellihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06263430746482725687noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-732676481099375924.post-34085479611799282582015-12-10T09:32:00.000-08:002015-12-10T09:34:12.395-08:00December surprises in the garden<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Even though our 'winter' weather has been very mild, I haven't been in the garden much over the last two months. Daylight is shorter and I suppose I've been caught up with other things. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">There still hasn't been a hard frost, so some of the summer plants are still flowering.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">For example, the white flowered begonia (pictured) hasn't yet died back. This is unexpected for this time of year. </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">A trailing Summer bedding plant is still thriving (above). I'm not sure, but I think this is trailing verbena.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Another begonia still in flower, albeit looking a bit shabby.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Another surprise - this azalea usually flowers at Easter. It has decided to flower now! This hasn't happened before.</span></td></tr>
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Kellihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06263430746482725687noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-732676481099375924.post-63161695826240805312015-11-03T10:43:00.003-08:002015-11-03T10:43:41.937-08:00Late colour in the garden<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We have yet to have had a hard frost where I live in Northern Ireland, so there's still some great colour in the garden (along with the leaves as they fall from the trees daily and litter the garden!). </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Many of the late Summer flowers are continuing into Fall/Autumn. Some plants, of course, are looking tired each day, and I continue to do a bit of deadheading - at least until the weather gets worse.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Here's a little summary of what has looked well in October, and is keeping providing some colour going into November...</span></div>
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Kellihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06263430746482725687noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-732676481099375924.post-72454843082611627082015-10-17T11:48:00.000-07:002015-10-17T11:48:19.821-07:00Bug Hotel has vacancies<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 24px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My little bug hotel was installed in June. It's supposed to attract bees, ladybirds, lacewings. So far I've seen a wasp fly out of it, and there seem to be spiders moving in from the webbing that can be seen. </span></span></div>
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S<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">o loving the colours of Autumn...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">this is such a fab time of year with lots of red, orange, and yellow, as plants begin their seasonal change and there's a distinct feel and freshness of Autumn in the air...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">as Summer begin to fade and flowers die down...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and plants soon slumber over Winter, only to emerge again in Spring.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Dogwood Shrub looking fab with berries, and leaves and stems turning a deep red. This is a great Winter plant.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Sunflowers finishing flowering, making seed for collecting and sowing in the New Year.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Carex Bronze grass looking very Autumn like (however this one looks like this all year round!)<br /><br /><i><b><span style="color: #783f04;">Hope you're enjoying all the Autumn colour! </span></b></i></span></td></tr>
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Kellihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06263430746482725687noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-732676481099375924.post-29731762574362306982015-10-06T01:00:00.000-07:002015-10-06T01:00:01.171-07:00Goodbye Giant Sunflowers<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My <span style="background-color: white; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #0c343d;"><span style="line-height: 18.48px;">'Giant Single' Sunflowers, grown from seed, have been a cheerful addition to the garden over Summer, but they're sadly coming to an end...</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The seed were sown around April, and they slowly and steadily grew over the first few months; then like the magic 'jack and the beanstalk', they sprung up to about 7 feet tall and starting flower in August. The most cheerful plant, I can think of, in the garden! </span></div>
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Kellihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06263430746482725687noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-732676481099375924.post-7262529784688326322015-10-01T12:28:00.002-07:002015-10-01T12:28:31.707-07:00Late Summer Flowers Still Going Strong<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We've had some glorious late summer sunshine, and the flowers are still going strong. Of course, things will change once the frost hits. In the meantime, the flower beds are looking fab and its been great getting outdoors in a t-shirt this week with jobs like deadheading, clearing leaves, harvesting veg and planning for the next season - I've started </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">dividing perennials and </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">moving a few plants.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The City of Belfast Autumn Flower Show took place this month with lots of inspiration on display amongst the flower arrangers. I particularly like the 'pastimes' garden theme they had chosen this year and the category "From the Garden Shed" for the Novice Class flower arranging competition.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Pictured is my favourite creation - wellie boots overflowing with flowers such as lavender, calendula, </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">cosmos </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">etc) and lots of little gardening items. Looks lovely!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This reminds me to add a few plants that are good as 'cut flowers' into the garden this year. Cut flowers are a great addition to any garden. There are numerous articles on the internet for information, including a 5 minute video by BBC gardener, Rachel de Thame. View Rachel's cut flower diary video by <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p028dsvg" target="_blank">clicking here</a>. </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Lots of events providing Autumn/Fall inspiration this month! It's great when fellow bloggers show their local shows, so do share!</span></td></tr>
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Kellihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06263430746482725687noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-732676481099375924.post-48256333745153101662015-09-23T13:05:00.000-07:002015-09-24T10:23:16.877-07:00VegTastic Display<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The temperature may be dropping but there's still lots of harvesting to be done... </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">apples are ripening, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">leeks are fat and ready, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">lettuces are still hearting, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">fennel is going to seed, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">onions are being dried, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and there's still beetroot, kale and lots of other goodies to bring to the table. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Over the weekend I visited the City of Belfast Autumn Flower (and Veg) Show. It was quite a small show but lots of effort had noticeably gone into it. Of course it was pouring rain the day I attended, but I still really enjoyed viewing all the fantastic displays. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Here are some of my favourite photos, from the <b>Northern Ireland Vegetable Association </b>(NIVA) display - and what a lovely display it was!</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Lots of herbs, veg, and fruit displayed very carefully by the NIVA team!</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Eye catching preserves, edible flowers and herbs decorated the top of the display cart. </span></td></tr>
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