Agapanthus ‘Kilmurry White’
Agapanthus ‘Kilmurry White’ Found at Kilmurry Nursery, Gorey, Wexford, part of a range of varieties developed by the owners Paul and Orla Woods. A lovely clean pure white flower, prolifically produced in summer. Flowers are partially sterile, enabling the plant energy to concentrate on flowers – a young plant will thus have many flower stems. […]
Sorbus ‘Autumn Spire’
Sorbus ‘Autumn Spire’ A relative of the native rowan or mountain ash Sorbus aucuparia, this is a wonderful, small, fastigiate (upright growing), deciduous tree, reaching about 4ms in height but only 2ms wide. A clone of the popular Sorbus ‘Joseph Rock’, a chance seedling found at Flannery’s Nursery, Staplestown, Kildare in 1996. Clean white flowers […]
Romneya coulteri
Romneya coulteri The Californian poppy is a gorgeous plant with glaucous foliage and huge blooms, their white petals looking like slightly crumpled tissue paper surrounding a central boss of golden stamens. But how can a poppy from California be an Irish plant? It has strong Irish associations having been collected by Thomas Coulter of Dundalk […]
Dahlia ‘Matt Armour’
Dahlia ‘Matt Armour’ Dahlia ‘Matt Armour’ commemorates the gardener at Glenveagh Castle in Co. Donegal who grew it from seed in the 1930s when the estate was owned by Henry McIlhenny. Now run by the OPW, it was registered by the present Head Gardener, Seán O’Gaoithín in 1996. A single-flowered red, it makes a stunning […]
Latest E-Bulletin: January 12, 2021
Dear Members If you would like to register for the IGPS’s first Zoom lecture please contact Nichola Monk at; igps.membership@gmail.com Details of the lecture and notes on Zoom are given below. Also…. Members may wish to avail of the opportunity to sign up for lectures being organised by our sister organisation, Plant Heritage. Details for […]
Garden & Landscape Designers Association SEMINAR 2021
Designing in Challenging Times, A Shift in Perspective Garden & Landscape Designers Association Annual Seminar – online – 27 February 2021 To design in challenging times is to design in interesting times. Challenges, whether they be environmental, economic or societal, bring about change and garden designers must respond to that change with […]
Zoom Talk for Members – Thursday, 21st January at 7.30p.m.
The Greedy Gardener – How to have colour in every season with Rosemary Maye Zoom lecture – MEMBERS WILL HAVE RECEIVED AN EMAIL REGARDING THIS TALK AND IT IS NECESSARY TO RESPOND TO THAT EMAIL TO REGISTER BEFORE BEING ABLE TO JOIN THE TALK. Thursday January 21st 2021 at 7.30pm Rosemary Maye is probably […]
E-Bulletin, January 2021
View this email in your browser We would like to wish you a very happy new year as we all look forward to a more positive year ahead. A new year brings new opportunities. One of the first will be for all members regardless of where they are living to enjoy a couple of online […]
Talks from Plant Heritage
The Lismacloskey Rectory Garden
The mild weather which has characterised our autumn continued right up until the start of December and allowed the IGPS volunteers at the Lismacloskey Rectory Garden to have a final clearance of the weeds which had run riot during the prolonged period while the Ulster Folk Museum was closed due to the pandemic and to […]
Sissinghurst, The Dream Garden
Sissinghurst, The Dream Garden Paddy Tobin Book Review October 24, 2020 With this book Sissinghurst has received what it so deservedly merits, an author whose writings do it justice, for reading Tim Richardson’s book has been an enjoyment comparable to visiting Harold Nicholson’s and Vita Sackville-West’s garden. Both are simply superb. The garden’s creators are no longer with […]
Thinking the Plant – Rebecca John
Thinking The Plant Paddy Tobin Book Review November 17, 2020 This rather odd title – for so it struck me – is proved by the golden thread of the artist’s insightful and revealing commentary on her work which runs through the narrative. 21 January, 1997: “I have been in intense and exhausting contemplation with leaves and stems, light […]
Newsletter 150
Newsletter 150, September 2020, has been sent to members and contains a range of very interesting articles: The newsletter is one of the benefits of membership of the IGPS.
Rowallane
Rowallane Gardens There wasn’t a cloud in the sky on the morning of 1st October when some members of the IGPS went on a DIY visit to Rowallane Gardens, Saintfield, Co Down. In full compliance with the regulations, each member made an individual booking and the visit was self-guided using the excellent handout prepared […]
The Lismacloskey Rectory Garden Update.
The Folk Museum was closed for almost five months as a result of the pandemic so our volunteers have had to work like trojans in recent weeks to tackle the weeds and restore some order. But there is lots of colour from among other things Penstemon’Evelyn’ and Crocosmia ‘George Davison’ echoing the golden berries on […]
IGPS South Belfast Garden Ramble, September 2020
IGPS South Belfast Garden Ramble On Saturday 5th September, we had a very enjoyable visit to three very different town gardens, all in close proximity in BT9, Richmond Park South Belfast, and all owned by members of the IGPS. Garden 1 owned by Adrian Walsh This garden combines an imaginative and colourful planting of […]
Garden Ramble in BT9 South Belfast on 5th September
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Spring Wildflowers of the Northeast.
Flowers – Wild and Garden! Paddy Tobin Book Review July 31, 2020 Lavish praise, a very generous book review, can be counter-productive for there is within us all that little streak of cynicism which says it may be too good to be true. This is my predicament with Spring Wildflowers of the Northeast, A Natural History by Carol Gracie for I […]
Visit to Finnebrogue House and ‘Collie’ garden
After a long time without a society event, on Saturday members were treated to a very enjoyable visit to the magnificent privately owned 1660’s mansion, Finnebrogue House, near Downpatrick, Co Down. Also to ‘Collie’ garden, a beautiful one acre country garden within the Finnebrogue Demesne, owned by members Agnes and John Peacocke. Here’s some photos […]
At long last!
At long last there is the prospect of a garden visit! It has been a long time without a society event and, given the present situation re Covid 19, arrangements will be a little different from normal and early booking will be essential. Find all details of this visit to Finnebrogue House and “Coille” on […]
