It's been a nice Spring weekend and we drove over to Kerry with 2 of the dogs: Bronte and Diesel.
Bronte is a Golden Retriever and Diesel is a Bernese Mountain dog and her breed is from 🇨🇭 Switzerland. Bronte Golden Retriever heritage is Scottish. Perhaps that's why she is whisky coloured
Cyclamen growing in the rocks.
The glass house or Orangery.
An oriental princess of a Rhododendron in flower in March. They don't/ didn usually in England until May. We live on the Gulf Stream and the Irish peaty soil is very acidic which the Rhododendrons love.
Rhodies and Azaleas coming into flower.
Magnolia tree.
Heather or Erica in bloom.
Looking over the lake. It would make a great back drop for a Prog Rock starring the likes of Magnum, Kate Bush and Kansas could headline it. Good line up Dave👍.
Muckross House where Queen Victoria used for an air bnb and put Killarney on the tourist map. The carpark and gardens are free to visit.
Camelia in flower. Sometimes they flower 🌼 in February here.
Bronte looking at the wild Celandine.
Bronte and Diesel with that old gardener/ builders labourer who writes this blog.
We stopped at McDonald's and the four of us had a 2 Euros burger 🍔 each. The dogs 🐕 were loving it!
We took them to Muckross House and Gardens again for walkies and to see what was in flower. I hope you liked the photos and the walk? The dog girls did!
Looks like a nice place to visit Dave. Good to see Bronte and Diesel looking good there.
ReplyDeleteYou would like it Rachel. Very much like Sandringham. We once visited there many moons ago.
ReplyDeleteSounds a perfect day out for everyone.
ReplyDeleteIt passed an hour after such a wet winter Marlene. The dogs enjoyed their walk and we admired the plants.
DeleteHappy dogs and humans. Though I haven't had a McDonalds 'anything' in years. I seem to remember they were only a couple of bites. Enough when you're walking!
ReplyDeleteI love finding flowers in the rocks. Our cyclamen often pop up there
Yes Linda. McDonald's is fast, inexpensive and very clean Linda. Those Cyclamen amaze me how they root in the rockiest of places.
ReplyDeleteIt looks lovely there in the sunshine with everything in flower.
ReplyDeleteEspecially with free entry!
Yes Just we often visit Muckross gardens when we are in Killarney. It's a beautiful place to walk and admire the mature gardens, lakes and mountains all for free
ReplyDeleteYou say you drove to Muckross "with 2 of the dogs". Christ almighty Dave - how many dogs have you got? Also - do Kerry folk mind Cork folk swarming over the border?
ReplyDelete5 dogs and 3 pups YP. Plus the 7 cats and pigs and ponies and us humans and plants.
DeleteYou sound like Doctor frigging Dolittle!
DeleteI do talk to the animals.
DeleteFOR I CAN
DeleteWALK WITH THE ANIMALS!
TALK WITH THE ANIMALS!
grunt and squeak
and squawk with the animals!
and they can squeak
and squawk
and speak
and talk,
to me!
You know your Dr Dolittle.
DeleteSounds like an a lovely day. The gardens do look beautiful
ReplyDelete⁵Yes it was a nice saunter around the gardens Angela.
DeleteI DID love the pictures. I saw daffodils here for the first time, and that did my spirits a world of good, just as your pictures did. Thanks!
ReplyDeleteThanks Debby. I love the Rhododendrons especially at this time of year.
ReplyDeleteBrilliant day out Dave. Did you get any garden ideas that you can use?
ReplyDeleteWon the lottery and buy a big estate and a walled kitchen garden perhaps TM. Seriously lakes and mountains create great vistas and extend the gardens. Leaves are great also for leaf mulch.
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