Kirengeshoma palmatum with its beautiful flowers

Family: Hydrangeaceae.

The genus name is Japanese, ki-rengeshōma (黄蓮華升麻); ki means ‘yellow’ and rengeshōma is a somewhat similar plant, the false anemone (Anemonopsis). 

A herbaceous perennial forming a clump to 1.2m, with palmately lobed leaves and dark maroon stems and nodding, fleshy, narrowly bell-shaped creamy-yellow flowers to 3.5cm in length in open panicles. Flowers from late summer to mid-autumn. Height 120 cm. Likes a sheltered site with acid, moist but well-drained soil in full - to partial shade.

October 2018

September 2018

July 2018

May 2018

                                                               Photographs © Hans van den Bos 

Six new clematis will climb coming spring in Godot's Garden

End of August we received four and yesterday two of the plants we had ordered by Thorncroft Clematis in Norfolk, U.K.. Here below you see the photos, which we took from the website of the grower.
For a free download version of the Thorncroft Care Guide click here: https://www.thorncroftclematis.co.uk/media/wysiwyg/PDFs/Thorncroft-CareGuide-2017-02-A5-web01.pdf

Clematis 'Edith'

Clematis 'Fair Rosamund'

Clematis 'Fuji Musume'

Clematis 'Gojō-gawa'

Clematis 'Haku Ookan'

Clematis 'Mercury'

Delphinium flowers for the second time

Delphinium x elatum 

'Magic Fountain'

Flowers from 29th May to 14th July, 2018

and again

from 6th September, 2018 onwards

                                                     Photographs © Hans van den Bos 

Dicksonia antarctica

In the garden since 2009, it survived the frost of last winter and the heatwave of this summer.

Photographs © Hans van den Bos 

Going Bananas

Turdus m. merula - Junior
A little more than a week ago we saw Junior for the first time with its mother and father. It was fed by its mother with little pieces of pear and apple, that we had thrown out onto a raised  bed close to our breakfast table on the patio. The next day we saw in our kitchen that somebody had picked a hole in one of our bananas. We suspected our local robin, but came to the conclusion that the damage was too big for such a little one. We put the banana out on the favoured spot of the blackbird family and, shortly after, we witnessed the whole family devour it within an hour. This morning we saw Junior on its own looking around for food. We had one banana left which we put it out for our young adolescent, as you can see on the photograph below. 

Junior

Daddy

                                                  Photographs © Hans van den Bos

The beauty of the Californian Lilac

Ceanothus thyrsiflorus 

var. 'Repens'

A small, but vigorous evergreen shrub of low, spreading habit, but much taller when grown against a wall. Leaves ovate, glossy dark green. Flowers light blue, in compact panicles in spring and early summer.

                             Photographs © Hans van den Bos, Ireland

Godot's Blue Period - May 2018

Photographs © Hans van den Bos, Ireland

Ajuga reptans	Anemone blanda
Aquilegia vulgaris ''Metamorphosis Blue''	Camassia leichtlinii ''Caerula''
Campanula poscharskyana	Ceanothus thyrsiflorus var. ''Repens''
Hyacinthoides non-scripta	Iris hollandica ''Sapphire Beauty''
Lithodora diffusa ''Heavenly Blue''	Meconopsis grandis
Muscari botryoides	Rhododendron impeditum
Scabiosa columbaria ''Butterfly Blue''	Veronica umbrosa ''Georgia Blue''
Viola ''Etain''	Viola riviniana

Just arrived

Hosta ''Hadspen Blue''

Hosta ''Orange Marmalade''

Photographs © Hans van den Bos, Ireland

The 5 Japanese Maples of Hortus Godotii

Acer japonicum ''Green Cascade''

Acer palmatum ''Beni-maiko''

Acer palmatum ''Bloodgood''

Acer palmatum ''Chitose-yama''

Acer palmatum ''Dissectum Viridis''

                   Photographs © Hans van den Bos, Ireland

Snowy day in Hortus Godotii

Bought today at Blackwater Garden Centre

Kinsalebeg - Youghal

25th February 2018

Hydrangea serrata 'Bluebird'

Photo Internet

First flower of 2018

Iris reticulata 'Harmony'

20th January, 2018