We went to The Home And Garden Festival at Cork Racecourse at Mallow on Friday.
It cost me thirty Euros for the two of us and Bronte got in free.
Here's some photos for your perusal dear readers:
I showed the ticket staff my photo on my phone and they knocked a fiver off the entrance fee. J did the same saving a tenner for both of us.
Alpacas.
Who needs Facebook when you've got Facecook? We had a tray of jockeys whips each for four Euros a tray.
A carved deer. Some of the animals cost 5000 Euros. A carved race horse cost that.
The landscaped gardens.
This oratory construction reminded me of stone monks cells I have seen on the Slea Head near Dingle in County Kerry.
Peppermint Farm greenhouse. They are based here in West Cork.
How is that for a water feature?
Japanese/ Chinese tea house.
Very nice.
I love the stone round tower. There are quite a few in Ireland. Some very old ones. Sixty five to be precise.
Very nice.
Decking and Bonsai type planting.
Yellow Peony. The aroma is divine.
White Peony.
Japanese raked sand. Someone's got it off to a fine art.
Round drystone tower again. It's a beauty!
A rascal up a tree.
Hansel and Gretel type house.
Bonsai.
More Bonsai. Only 5000 Euros. "I'll have two please".😀
It was a good half a day out and Bronte got lots of strokes and cuddles.
Why go to Chelsea when you can go to Cork Race course?
How lovely. You know, it looks just like your garden!
ReplyDeleteSome of that stuff sounds a little expensive though. P complained when I spent £15 on a griselinia last week!
Thanks JayCee. Some of the stuff was expensive. They pay a lot of money for their selling pitches. It must be a big Griselina? I grow them from cuttings. I have 1 to 2ft hedging in pots. I charge 2 Euros for them when I do carboot sales.
ReplyDeleteThis one was about 5ft tall. The slightly taller one next to it was £25!
DeleteGosh! Some garden centres can be very expensive. The Bonsai in the square planter was for sale for 5000 Euros. Eye watering prices.
DeleteYou've visited some awesome places recently. Nice getting in for a lower price. When we were visiting archealogical sites recently I got in for half price because I am an EU pensiioner. Lucky I had my ID card with me. Instead of 20 euros, daylight robbery, I 'only' paid 10 euros
ReplyDeleteThanks Linda. You get a lot of inspiration when you visit estate and show gardens. It was good to be able to get 5 Euros off the admission price. I think anyone over sixty should get discounts. Thanks.
ReplyDeleteIt looks a lovely show, much nicer gardens, garden structures and decorations have become very expensive, luckily they won't fit in my tiny garden.
ReplyDeleteIt was a good show Marlene on a race course. The gardens must cost thousands to create and the designers and gardeners are very clever and talented. Especially the stone oratory and the raked sand in the Japanese garden. I would love a Japanese garden complete with a tea house and water feature. Although we do have a sea vista to look at.
ReplyDeleteI love Japanese gardens
ReplyDeleteSo do I. I must visit the one in Kildare some time.
ReplyDeleteAren't garden shows fabulous places and all those outdoor setting look so grand, posh and perfectly tidy and all. Then I think of my place - veg garden, gorse, clothesline, lashing rain at least 1 day a week and wonder who really has such perfect and orderly outdoor spaces at their home and are they real people or just Ken and Barbie? Here it would be weeds and green mold within a year.
ReplyDeleteThey are great places to visit TM. Real gardens need constant maintenance and the weather dictates. I have lots of burnt up perennials and newly rooted shrub cuttings at the moment. Gardening is always one step forwards. One step backwards.
ReplyDeleteI do not understand why you each got 5 euros off the admission price simply by showing your photos. Also, I would have been very apprehensive about racehorses thundering past. Those lads are big, muscular feckers and they could easily knock you over.
ReplyDeleteOur phones displayed the 5 Euros off voucher YP. The race horses had gone racing somewhere else for the 3 day garden festival. It would be a great venue for an enormous carboot sale.
ReplyDeleteI am sure the boots would sell well but not too sure about the cars. Would they be used or new cars? Possibly Dinkies?
DeleteI have seen cars and vans and trailers for sail at car boot sales. But never a car boot. I believe another name is a Trash and Treasure Sale.
DeleteI was thinking about leather boots that you wear on your feet. You would look nice in some kinky boots with stiletto heels and perhaps spurs too.
DeleteThanks. I will stick to selling plants and bric a brac.
DeleteThanks for the tour! :)
ReplyDeleteYour welcome Dawn Treader.
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