Showing posts with label Blarney Castle Gardens. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Blarney Castle Gardens. Show all posts

Thursday, March 28, 2024

Buds and Blossom

Buds and Blossom

Blarney Castle Gardens 

28.03.2024

Wild Garlic

Blossom at the entrance

On the way to the castle

Walking to and from castle under a cover of spring blossom

Budding


Wednesday, February 21, 2024

Blarney Castle Gardens. 15.02.2024

Blarney Castle Gardens

15.02.2024

February colour



Recycling

Three trees (for reference)

Trees. Donkeys. Horse.

Beech corner (concealing car-parking)

Badgers Cave (escape route when Cromwell threatened).

Monday, January 15, 2024

Monday, October 16, 2023

Fungi and falling leaves signal the arrival of Autumn at Blarney Castle Gardens

 Fungi and falling leaves signal arrival of Autumn at Blarney Castle Gardens  

Pics taken 14.01.2023

A domesticated grey cat, with a long bushy tail, perhaps a Maine Coon, works its way

along the leaf-strewn floor of the Fern Tree Garden



Leaves and fungi signal the arrival of Autumn.


Come for a walk

A fine seat, one of a pair, in the Poison Garden

Water falls down to pool in Fern Tree Garden

This little resting spot was completed
by the staff this year.


Saturday, October 14, 2023

Just a few hints of Autumn as October begins in Blarney Castle Gardens.

 Just a few hints of Autumn as October begins in Blarney Castle Gardens

(pics 2nd Oct '23)

Pips of the robust thorny Rosa Moyesi (I think!!!)

Much of this tree is still green.


Quercus Rubra (Red Oak) above and below.


Rhus leaves turning

Blooming time for these Cyclamen, hidden away in a shady corner.


Indian Pokeweed in the Poison Garden.
More on its dangers here via Mt Sinai Hospital

All together now, munch!


In the Carnivorous garden.



Monday, October 9, 2023

Blarney Castle and Gardens. Autumn Begins

Blarney Castle Gardens 

Autumn Begins

7th October 2023

Sweet chestnuts

Curious

Framed

Michaelmas Daisies

Red oak

Rhus

Starlings


Monday, August 7, 2023

Blarney Castle Gardens at end of July.

Blarney Castle Gardens end of July.


Pics taken 31.07.2023

Take a load off Annie
Lig do Scith





Peacock butterfly






Large tile in floor of rest hut (above and top)