1-3-2019
Due to the mild weather, leaves and flowers are appearing early this spring. Bees are busy already, and even the odd butterfly is flapping its wings in the sunshine.
The young apple tree is still resting, but there’s a slight fattening of buds.
During the past few weeks, Aphrodite’s Gardens has been working on a major project: Planting up a new garden with lots of native shrubs, rockery plants, perennials, a mixed native shrub hedge and an evergreen hedge.
Native trees and shrubs are a great asset. They look beautiful. They do well in our climate. They provide wind shelter. They offer accommodation and food for wildlife. And they’re fairly easy to look after and – depending on the appropriate choice of plants – don’t grow too tall for the domestic garden. Most of them can also be bought bare-root for winter planting and are therefore very good value.
In between working on this project, time was filled by the usual fruit pruning, the creation of plant supports from home-grown willow and a visit to Fota Gardens to see the unbelievably beautiful magnolia trees in flower.