An Organic Lifestyle (Organic Growing Pains)

More of the gardens at the Mallow Homes & Gardens show. There are 25 permanent gardens which get a face lift and/or make over each year.This gold fish is around for quite a few years and is the last remaining one in the pool.They knew he was there but this year they put various pieces of garden sculpture around the gardens and a heron pouring water was put next to the fish pool.The goldfish spent the time swimming and dancing in the oxygenated bubbling water, much to the delight of visitors A patio garden The Hobbit playhouse, erected by a company who make and design unusual playhouses etc all over the world. Courtyard garden with a vine growing for a few years it would be one of the permanent features which new designers have to work around. In the sales area, a lavender tree?! Unusual lillies Off Our trolleys, a catchy selling idea. Pots decorated in county emblems Dunsland garden centre had by far the largest sales area full of colour and plants of all shapes and sizes, Prop. P...

We have been very busy for the last few days putting the final touches to the Hydro Farm Project for the Mallow Homes & garden festival which opened to the public on Friday for the most successful festival yet. The unusual feature of this festival is,there are 25 permanent gardens and each year different people are invited to take over a garden and using the mature trees,shrubs, water features ,ponds etc already in place to completely invent a new garden around them. We had 5 raised stone beds this year plus the raised deck area. The great news is, we were completely bowled over to win a Silver Medal for our efforts! Our cottage garden bed, planted with flowers & veg The Feather garden with ducks,geese and a Cock & hen.The cock was very vociferous throughout the show and could be heard all over the showgrounds. A Blueberry tree which has reached the grand old age of 45!It was imported from Italy by Peter Dowdall of the Dunsland garden centre. It is hard to see the berries o...