Garden Blog
Sowing for Spring
Preparations for opening continue apace. The frame-yard has seen a substantial up grade with metal edging placed around the lawns, new gravel spread, and new ...
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Preparing for the Season Ahead
It’s a busy time in the garden at Glenarm as we prepare the garden for the coming season. We are planting several new hedges this ...
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Turning Over a New Leaf
The tulips have all been lifted now and we have replanted the herbaceous plants into the Hot Border. This year we have added a new ...
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Winter Work Under The Glass
The weather has been as wet as I’ve ever known it, which sadly fits the Met Eireann prediction that Ireland will be getting wetter over ...
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The Secret To Successful Autumn Cuttings
October is a good time to take all sorts of soft-wood cuttings. Most have ripened a little and they are no longer soft as the ...
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Preparing For Winter
Nights are beginning to cool now and so we are making preparations for the autumn and winter. We have been growing many different types of ...
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Cooking The Cuttings
Late summer is a great time to take semi-ripe cuttings. At the moment, we have Abutilon ‘Nabob’, Buddleja colvilei, Lonicera brownii ‘Dropmore Scarlet’, Senecio glastifolius, ...
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Late Summer Planting and Pruning
The biennials sown in June are now ready to go outside to bulk up for the late summer, before they are lifted and planted out ...
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A Bed of Roses
The Irish spring continues to rage around us with cold, drying winds, overcast skies and very little in the way of rain. One old book ...
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Highlights of the Herbaceous Border
Thankfully, the squirrel has forgotten about our luscious tree fern and the drama of its unfurling has been allowed to continue unmolested. The tulips have ...
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A Dose Of Salts And A Mystery Critter
We are still planting at Glenarm, especially after a couple of bouts of prolonged rainfall – beauteous rain! In our lighter sandy loam, Magnesium becomes ...
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Spring Bulbs And The New Woodland Walk
Last autumn, we took some hardwood cuttings of Berberis thunbergia ‘Atropurpurea Nana’, a fabulous small berberis which forms a fine square-sided, small hedge around 2 ...
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Pruning the Medlar Trees
October is traditionally the start of the gardening year. A time to plan and order new items for forthcoming winter projects. All the seeds have ...
A Mild Autumn
The mild autumn weather continues and many of the late flowering plants are out in full flower. Aralia elata is looking gorgeous with its huge ...
Grasses From New Zealand
The autumn is the best time to divide Chionochloa, those lovely grasses from New Zealand. Today we divided a clump of Chionochloa flavescens, (pictured). Placing ...
Autumn Colour and Beautiful Small Trees
As the Walled Garden is now closed, the garden team have been clearing the ground for the Glenarm Tulip Festival, 30th April – 2nd May. ...
Planting for a Coastal Garden
The work of cutting back herbaceous plants in the borders went on apace this week. Some of the ‘pinch points’, where the grass always becomes ...
As Autumn fades the winter work continues
The mild weather continues and this year’s display of late autumn/early winter colour has been fabulous. Perhaps the most stunning has been Acer palmatum ‘Osakazuki’, ...
A New Woodland Walk, Tulip Planting and Looking Ahead to 2022
A fine start has been made planting a small part of the Woodland Walk with a view to developing this into a woodland garden in ...
A Challenging Start To The Year
Back from the Christmas break and disaster has occurred. The local wildlife have eaten many of the tulips which were newly planted before Christmas, eating ...
Seeding Ideas
January has been a great time to do some planning for the future. New seed is coming from New Zealand, the Chatham Island Forget-me-not, Myosotidium ...
Pruning the Vine
The weather has been kind and the ground has dried up a bit in the cold breezes we have enjoyed over the last few days. ...
Apple Goblets and a New Cornus from North East India
There are twenty young apple trees planted in the Wildflower Orchard, ten eating apples, Adam’s Pearmain and ten cookers, Lord Derby, both on M25 rootstocks, ...
Breaking Bud
We planted two hedges, one of Hornbeam and the other of Beech. The plants were bare rooted and cost very little each to buy. The ...
