A bit of colour

It's around two years now since we moved into our new house and I figured it was about time that I added a splash of colour, so I have started planting a few bits and pieces around the garden.

Here are my Lillies which I'm delighted with. I love the orange against the blue pots and there are a few of them yet to bloom, so they are far from at their best yet. I'm looking forward to seeing them burst into bloom in the coming weeks.

Monkey Puzzle

Don't ask me why, but I've always loved Monkey Puzzle trees. I'm not sure what it is or was? Was it because they looked that little bit different? Was it because of their symmetry which I do like in general? Was it the fact their name has monkey in it? Possibly? All are possible. What's clear though is I love Monkey Puzzle trees.

My wife soon learned this and surprised me a few years back with my very own little Monkey Puzzle tree which we purposefully potted and didn't plant in the ground as we were still living in Ashbourne and I knew for sure that would not be our forever home!

So it lived it's first years in a pot and to be honest it spent too long in a pot and it's roots started lapping around and around that pot, and I was oblivious until I recently planted it in our front garden in Galway which will be it's last home. It's still only three foot tall, but these bad boys grow to a height of 30 metres, so 30 times bigger than now, which is pretty cool, especially as the boys will remember when they were taller than it.

More Planting around the garden

Give Thanks

Well I can't take credit for all of the colour as these were here before we moved in and have matured nicely.

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There is also this Oak which looks lovely this evening with the setting sun, but for some reason they cut this down and what is growing back isnl very erratic and I'm unsure what to do with it.