Not the name of a Irish prog rock band but the Irish word for an ancient Celtic festival.
"Hey do you remember when we went to that Celtic Prog Festival and we saw Imbolc and Altan and Enya and Clannad?"
It is also St Brigids Day. Today is the first day of Spring.
I walked outside this morning to feed the livestock and noticed one of my Osteospermums flowering in a large plant pot:
They are also called Cape Daisies and I lost lots of them in 2010.
Recently before the winter storms tore the newish cover on my polytunnel. I took a lot of cuttings and they have all rooted.
I have about forty of them ready to go.
Anyone else a bit of a plantaholic?
Not quite!
ReplyDeleteP moved our large osteospermum when it finished flowering as it had outgrown its space. It has taken a battering in the storms but seems to be hanging on, although it may not have the strength to flower just yet.
They are easy to make cuttings or by growing their seeds or division JayCee. I love the daisy family.
DeleteI'm sure I would be, if I had more time to look after them. I was providing some emergency treatment for three poor neglected specimens at work, yesterday. I'm the same with animals. I would love to have a smallholding one day.
ReplyDeleteHave a look at a site called Pure Portugal Jules if you want to start smallholding dreaming. I am always looking for a smallholding or a house with a veg plot in the sun.
DeleteYou have an early Spring arrival in Ireland. I like to see and identify the crops growing on the farms here and the harvests as they come along.
ReplyDeleteWe have an early Autumn Rachel. August to April night arrives very early. Ireland is very mild but exposed to all what the Atlantic can throw at it. No big gun strikers for the Gunners yet?
ReplyDeleteWe were saying only today it's time to bring our indoor daisy houseplant down from the cool bedroom to the sunny window where it gives a spectacular display all summer every year.
ReplyDeleteIt sounds a great plant specimen Tasker. Any chance of a picture of it on your blog post?
ReplyDeleteJust remembered actually it's a "Blue Leila" streptocarpus primrose, not a daisy. Still spectacular, but not just yet.
DeleteSounds very nice Tasker.
DeleteHow did you lose so many Cape Daisies back in 2010? Did you leave them on a bus or perhaps you simply forgot where you had put them? It's important to remember where your osteospermums are at all times.
ReplyDeleteSnow and Ice YP. It was West Corks once in fifty years snowfall. We were snowed in for a fortnight. A bit like Winters 1947 and 62 in Blighty. It's always worth taking cuttings of your favourite plants.
ReplyDeleteMy favourite plant is Saturn. It's the rings that do it for me. My dream is to live there one day.
DeleteThere's nothing wrong with dreaming YP.
DeleteThat's some esrly cheer - promise for a good year one hopes.
ReplyDeleteYes TM. March can come in like a lamb and go out like a lion. The grass and Montbretia is growing like mad and the little birds are flying about with twigs in their mouths. The circle of life.😃
ReplyDeleteThe first day of spring? The almond trees have been in blossom for a while and purple anemones are starting to pop up but it still seems like winter to me
ReplyDeleteThe grass is growing and so is the Montbretia Linda. Please take a photo of the almond blossom for us all to see. Spring is definitely on it's way!
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