Over the following few weeks I might be including to my common #SixOnSaturday posts with Sunday spots for fellow gardeners.
Our go to as we speak takes us to the Eire. Let’s discover out extra about Dana and her backyard.
Please inform us the place on the planet you reside and the way lengthy you’ve got had your present backyard.
I’m American and we’ve been dwelling at our house in County Louth, Eire (on the east coast), for the previous 13 years.
What’s the essential soil sort and what advantages or challenges this and the local weather trigger.
We now have alkaline soil that could be very rocky. Elements of the yard retain moisture, whereas different elements have superb drainage. It will also be very windy in our yard, with minimal shelter. Fortunately, the yard will get a number of solar all through the whole day (the again is south-east dealing with).
Have you ever made any main adjustments to your backyard or have you ever any new plans for adjustments?
There have been only some lavender vegetation on the home once we moved in, so we’ve performed a number of work! Two years in the past we fully reworked a raised mattress space, which I’m actually proud of. I had enjoyable making the borders utilizing Rosemary, lavender, and dwarf little lime hydrangeas (our beech hedge is one facet of the border, too). The raised beds are for annuals: often pumpkins, garlic, candy pea and sunflowers. That is additionally house to our blueberries. We initially put in raised beds on this space once we first moved in, so we realized so much through the years. This time, our wooden was wider, the world was higher outlined, and we put down weed management cloth beneath new hoggin paths.
This yr I added a reducing backyard for dahlias and sunflowers.
Do you’ve got a specific backyard model that you simply attempt to maintain to? ie natural, cottage backyard, rose backyard, conventional for the local weather and many others.
I’ve at all times gardened organically, which suggests I’m O.Okay. with weeds! I might like to say that I’ve a proper backyard, as I take advantage of boxwood round my rose beds, and the above-mentioned borders round my raised beds. However that’s about the place the formal facet ends. There’s a little bit of a cottage backyard really feel to the remainder of it.
Inform us about a few of your favorite vegetation and why you want them.
I really like scented flowers, so my prime vegetation can be lilies (desire for pink), roses, candy pea and lavender. Lilies simply command consideration, whether or not by scent or by sight. Roses are pretty for preparations – and for drying. Candy pea are tremendous for having candy little posies all summer season lengthy. Lavender is fantastic to work with, whether or not making wands or wreaths.
I do know that you simply get pleasure from making backyard wreaths, inform us about your favorite ones .
I actually get pleasure from working with my arms and creating issues. I’ve experimented through the years with utilizing completely different dried flowers, however I’ve to say that making lavender wreaths is certainly my favorite. It actually is a soothing expertise as you get to benefit from the perfume the whole time! I generally add dried roses too, which provides one other dimension. (An in depth second can be hydrangea wreaths!)
For extra stunning backyard concepts from Dana, comply with her weblog Mother In The Backyard.
Dana can also be on Instagram right here.
Meet up with earlier posts on this collection under:
Fred and his backyard in Normandy, France right here.
Sarah and her Australian backyard right here.
Páraig and his Irish backyard right here.
Selwa and her Belgium backyard right here.
Amelia and her backyard in Florida right here.
Kate and her backyard in Finland right here.
TopDock and his backyard in Alabama right here.
Arwen and her backyard in Wales right here.
Catherine and her Nottingham backyard right here.
Jude and her backyard in Cornwall right here.
Graeme and his backyard in Somerset right here.
Gill and her backyard in Welsh right here.
Jim in his Cornish backyard right here.
Please be a part of me in thanking Dana for taking time to reply my questions and supply some pretty pictures for this submit.
