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JUNE 2004----UPDATED IN NOVEMBER 2004. Due to the fact that a few nice photos have been taken, I thought I might share them with you. Hence this unusually early update for 2004. I may get around to making a complete update before the winter. Once again, I should advise you that the pictures are a bit slow to download. Please have patience. Some times it takes an age for someone to answer the phone----and that piece of technology has been around much longer than the web. I was in Cork city last week and I spent one full hour driving a distance of two miles. One more thing: did you know that, when the new road between Cork and Dublin has been completed, it will enable the motorist to cover the distance between the two places in approximately the same time as one could do it in 1960. This, in case you did not know, is known as "Progress"
This lovely looking plant is called ABUTILON. It looks well, with the blue waters of Dunmanus Bay behind it. (I am carrying on with my 2003 decision not to use botanical names for plants pictured, as I am still-----sob, sob-----hurt by the comments of a few emailers). It can be grown successfully in exposed situations, the gardener tells me.
This red ECHIUM surprised the gardener. She expected a completely different one to grow. This goes to show that even very keen and experienced gardeners can be wrong. The fact that gardeners can be wrong, for some perverse reason, gives me tremendous pleasure. This fabulous plant has been in flower since the last week in May. I should make it quite clear that when I mention the fact that gardeners being wrong gives me exquisite pleasure, it does NOT apply to the particular gardener, I have being living with for years and years and years and years. (The above sentence is an example of how one can stay married to the same woman for a very long time. Please enquire if you wish for more tips)
This one is another source of joy to the gardener. This Australian plant flowered for the first time this past April . It is called ----wait for it, PROSTANTHERA. Personally, I think "Mint Bush" sounds a lot better.
The picture below shows, in order of importance, my boat, Abutillon, Fucshia, red Watsonia and in foreground a nice splash of colour from some Alstroemeria . My boat was built thirty-one years ago and is in far better shape than I am-------it is sound in all aspects. It is thirty feet long and has a Lister -Petter 30 H.P engine. It is built from Oak and Larch. In the garden both of these trees may be found, hence its connection with gardening and why it is featuring in a garden web site
One fine day in the month of August we had a visit from a lovely young lady from the IRISH TIMES newspaper. She came with notebooks, cameras and a friend.( Hiya Jonathan) Her name was Jane Powers. This is she, leaning on a shovel, like a county council worker only much better looking.
The above two pictures, which have been published here without her permission or knowledge show that Ms. Powers is not only a fantastically good judge of a garden but is also fairly nifty with the camera. If there are not two pictures above, it means the Irish Times ----and Jane Powers--- has sued me and has got an injunction against me publishing them......they wouldn't do that, would they?
A final photo: as a contrast to the one above, this was taken during a nasty gale in late autumn. It's not always sunshine and roses around here. The dark foreground is the garden boundary. A Seaside Garden 2001 Update &Pics 2003 News About the Garden Links and help Plant List More pictures Garden Pictures Plant of the week Places Nearby UPDATE FOR 2002 2005 2006 Update 2006 update:part 2
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. We plied her with cups of coffee and some of the gardener's
home made scones, by way of a bribe and it
worked......a few weeks later there was a wonderful two page spread in the
magazine section of the paper. If you wish to view the article go to 
This
picture was taken on a fine sunny day in June, just as the garden was coming
into full glory. On dark, gloomy days during winter it will be good for my
mental well-being to look at it and marvel at the amazing things nature, with
help from the gardener, can do. It was my intention to include several more pictures and some more astute
asides but they will have to wait, . 