This week’s photo challenge is Favourite Place. There are too many of them. In County Mayo alone I could list half a dozen. So I decided to stay close to home – my own garden. I would happily spend all day pottering, planting, weeding. Here are some glimpses of the garden in it’s glory – summer time. A nice reminder of things to look forward to on a cold wet March day.
Lovely garden
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Thank you.
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Lovely photos – I can hardly wait for those long, warm days!
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Thanks Eliza. Those days seems far off, but I know they are coming!
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Beautiful pics – well put! xx
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Thank you Miranda.
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Wow, quite beautiful. Love that butterfly!
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It really is beautiful. I love the pink lupin with the blue fence in the background. I’d like to grow lupins.
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They are surprisingly easy to grow. Though the slugs like them, so good idea to get them well established in pots before planting out.
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I bought a young lupin plant a few years ago for our old garden which was on several feet of chalk. It gradually disappeared before it had chance to flower – slugs or snails, as you say. I might try one here in the new garden after establishing it in a pot as per your tip. It’s layers of slate here rather than chalk!
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I’m going to visit Sligo in late May…any recommendations?
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Union wood – bluebells – check out https://murtaghsmeadow.wordpress.com/2017/05/30/union-wood/
If you want to do a bit of walking Knocknareagh or Benbulben https://murtaghsmeadow.wordpress.com/2018/03/04/silent-sunday-56/
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You are the best!
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Beautiful impressions. We love the lupins too. In Norway, they are blacklisted in nature.
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I know they can be invasive in some places.
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Lovely reminders of summer. Glorious garden!
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Beautiful pictures, I especially like the butterfly one. Would it be a cabbage white?
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Thank you. The butterfly is a green veined white, but it will use cabbages to lay it’s eggs on to.
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That is probably the correct name for a cabbage white Murtagh.
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we have three types of white butterfly that we see in the garden. Green veined, Large White and Small White. They will all lay eggs on cabbages, though the scientific name for the Large white is Pieres brassicae and is often called Large cabbage white.
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Your garden looks so inviting with its variety of colour. no wonder it is a favourite place… I love being in my garden too.
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Thank you. Gardens are special places.
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Very beautiful photos of your summer garden, stunning and lots to look forward too.
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Yes, looking forward to it warming up!
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Oh, what happiness you’ve captured in your garden. Such detail: the markings on the butterfly; no flower is complete without a bee working on it; and the peaceful atmosphere of the garden. Happiness.
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Happiness indeed:-)
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Beautiful! đŸ˜‰
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Thank you!
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WOW!!!! It is beautiful, we got snow yesterday!
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Spring seems to be having a hard time this year getting started in many parts of the Northern hemisphere
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