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Friday 3 October 2021 Tickets: €50 or €45 with Friends discount Join the Lismore Castle Gardens team for a hands-on festive wreath-making workshop. Construct and decorate your own Christmas Wreath using foliage from the Castle Gardens. Materials will be provided. Mulled wine and seasonal treats included. There will be two sessions on the day. Please click below to book tickets Continue Reading The…
STRAT AND SCARF Spring is traditionally thought of as the time to start sowing your seeds and this is true for many genus of plants, but so many more prefer and even benefit from autumn or winter sowings. There are many reasons why you’ll have success sowing at this time of year, the main one being stratification. Many seeds are Continue Reading The post Strat and Scarf appeared first on Lismore…
In the garden the winter Aconites, Witch Hazel and Sarcococca are in flower, regarded as some of the first to flower and the harbingers of spring. Being out in the garden you notice that it never really stops. It quietens down but is never still. Buds are fattening as the remnants of last seasons flowers still hang on, the bulbs Continue Reading The post Microclimates appeared first on Lismore…
This is an image of the Vinery in the upper garden here at Lismore Castle. It was designed by Sir Joseph Paxton and built in 1853. The 6th Duke of Devonshire had carried out extensive works on the castle through the early part of the 19th century and instructed Paxton, his Head Gardener at the time, to design elements of the upper Continue Reading The post Paxton’s Vinery appeared first on Lismore…
Five years ago, the team here at Lismore set about turning the previously lawned orchard into a meadow. It was one of the first jobs that Darren Topps, our Head Gardener, implemented on his arrival and since then more areas have been turned over to 'wild' grassed areas. Darren brought with him a deep knowledge of native wild-flowers, grasses and Continue Reading The post Summer Scything appeared…
"You must be looking forward to a bit of downtime for the Winter" ...... sigh. How many gardeners hear this and how often.. every year! Most of the time we can all shrug it off and calmly explain to the unfortunate indoor cats the reality of the situation. Sometimes though, when we've been out in the third consecutive week of Continue Reading The post Winter Work appeared first on Lismore Castle…
Peak annual has just passed. The month of July tends to be THE month for full scale annual assault, the aftermath of which then continues slowly and steadily right through to the first frosts. Annual plants, for those who are unfamiliar with gardening terms, are plants who undergo their entire life-cycle in one year, or they may be plants that Continue Reading The post Annual Handling appeared…
Lee Behegan is Lismore Castle Gardens youngest team member and has just finished his RHS level 2 exams. One of Lee's jobs is to pick out ten of his favourite plants every week as part of the display in the Riding House, which includes plants of current interest that week. The following is Lee's blog on his top 40 for the Continue Reading The post 40 Spring flowering plants for your garden appeared…
How many Digitalis varieties can be considered too many to grow? I like to think you can’t have too many of these beauties. This year we have outdone ourselves on the variety and quantity of plants we are propping from seed, among them we have ten various species of Digitalis. Although this plant is traditionally mentioned in the same breath Continue Reading The post Let’s Get Digital(is)……
There are many vaunted harbingers of spring. Depending on your degree of optimism or downright determination to shrug off the gloom of the dark days of winter, these glimmers of hope that the seasons are shifting can be as early as December. More so if you are immersed in the outdoors, working through the dark mornings, the light barely improving Continue Reading The post Early Spring appeared…
