Articles tagged with: Ireland
![Flower(s) of the Day: Dinner Centerpiece](http://susanmckee.com/roadtripsforgardeners/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/150-centerpiece.jpg)
Flowers surround a candle for a centerpiece at Ashford Castle, an eight-hundred-year-old five-star hotel in County Mayo, Ireland.
(Photo ©2007 by Susan McKee)
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It’s St. Patrick’s Day.
The symbol of St. Patrick’s Day is the shamrock, because the missionary famously used the three-leaf clover as a metaphor for the Trinity.
The shamrock has three lobes, like the image, left. It …
![We’re Number Three!](http://susanmckee.com/roadtripsforgardeners/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/ireland_powerscourt.jpg)
Powerscourt Gardens in County Wicklow, Ireland, has scooped up third place in National Geographic’s list of the World’s Top 10 Gardens.
Powerscourt was one of seven European gardens to make the list and was beaten only …
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It’s often easier to visit blockbuster shows on an escorted tour. Insight Vacations has organized a 17-day jaunt to Ireland and England to include the 2014 World Flower Show in Dublin, Ireland.
“Ireland & England in …
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The World Flower Show will be held in Ireland for the first time next year.
It’ll take place June 18 through 22, 2014, in the RDS, Merrion Road, Ballsbridge, Dublin, Ireland.
The World Flower Show, an …
![Flower(s) of the Day: Dundalk, Ireland](http://susanmckee.com/roadtripsforgardeners/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/bed-of-roses.jpg)
As if visitors who’ve spent time at the Doagh Famine Village in Dundalk, Ireland, need any reminding, the curators have added this bittersweet planter.
No: in 1840s Ireland, life was not a bed of roses.
The concept …
![Flower of the Day: Mums](http://susanmckee.com/roadtripsforgardeners/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/ireland_sligo_shells-cafe.jpg)
A simple bouquet of lavender, pink and white chrysanthemums decorates a table in the Shells Café in Strandhill — along the Atlantic coast in County Sligo, Ireland.
It’s the perfect flower for an early fall day.
(Photo …
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Special to Road Trips for Gardeners
By Ballyrobert Cottage Garden and Nursery
Ireland is blessed with a mild and temperate climate, making it a plantsman’s joy enabling gardeners to grow a wide variety of plants and …
![“Flower” of the Day: Shamrock](http://susanmckee.com/roadtripsforgardeners/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/shamrock.jpg)
What possibly could be the choice for today — St. Patrick’s Day — if not the shamrock!
Of course, reasonable people disagree about the actual plant referred to as the shamrock. It could be the …