My Miscellany

We took a trip to Birr on Saturday. With C being with me I took very few photos compared to if I were on my own, but it was nice to have him...

Birr, again... I heard someone on a gardening program last week saying that she would always have mahonia for the scent. Well, the one in o...

More photos from Birr. It was lovely to see the structures of the trees so clearly, and to have views that are normally obcscured by all the...

 I was lucky enough to have another trip to Birr today. In a way it's a pity C's meeting last week was cancelled, because it would ...

Since we leave on holidays at the weekend I'd better finish off with my Birr photos. I mentioned the carpet of colchicum, so here a coup...

If I had to choose a favourite part of Birr, which would be an almost impossible task, this part of the garden might  just be it. For years ...

I have never seen so many of these butterflies all in one place - Brimstones, I think. On the agapanthus they had to thrust themselves righ...

I am glad I pushed myself a bit to go for the trip to Birr today, it was such a lovely day weatherwise, and lovely to see the gardens coming...

Just a last few photos. I am sorry I don't have any worth sharing of the hornbeam cloisters - they are so wonderful, but at this time of...