Author Archives: Deborah McMillin
Lakemount Garden
Visited on 6-15-2012 with members of the Lakeland Horticulture Society. Photo credits: Deborah McMillin The Irish Cottage Garden Lakemount, a “his” and “her” garden, is a two acre display of herbaceous plants, shrubs and trees that have been carefully selected to provide four seasons of color and interest. The garden sits on what had [Read the full story …]
Aultaghreagh Cottage Garden
Visited on June 14th, 2012 (With members of the Lakeland Horticulture Society. Photo credits: Deborah McMillin) Traditional Irish weather greeted us for a morning visit to Aultaghreagh, an English Cottage Garden in West Cork. We left the Castle Hotel in Macroom in the pouring rain. The coach drive was on narrow country roads with [Read the full story …]
Ilnacullin
Visited on June 13, 2012 (With members of the Lakeland Horticulture Society. Photo credits: Deborah McMillin) Leaving Bantry Gardens, a short drive west took us to a small harbour near the seaside village of Glengarriff at the top of Bantry Bay. There the Gulf Stream’s warm currents created the opportunity for palm trees and [Read the full story …]
North One Garden Centre
Visited on September 8, 2009 North One Garden Centre in the London Borough of Hackney was a visual delight; a study of a successful, award winning independent garden centre with limited space. From the Dalston Kingsland rail station it was a ten- minute walk to the centre located in a mixed use area of [Read the full story …]
Larch Cottage
Visited on September 18, 2007 Larch Cottage Nursery was labeled as “A Shoppers Paradise,” “Wildly different,” unique with one of the most comprehensive collection of rare plants in the country, on the internet site that my daughter had sent me for vacation planning in Cumbria. A local newspaper wrote that it was “The Lake [Read the full story …]
Tatton Park
Visited on September 13, 2009 A Sunday in September, with no rain clouds above, my husband Dave and I took a 30 minute train ride from Manchester, England to the town of Knutsford , the train stop nearest to Tatton Park. We knew that the tourist buses stopped running from the station to the park [Read the full story …]
Brockhole Visitors Center
Visited on September 17, 2007 Monday was the first day of using our Brit-Rail pass out of Manchester. Our destination was Windermere in the Lake District, a two-hour train ride. The Lake District had become one of England’s most popular summer retreats in the mid eighteen hundreds, when rail lines arrived in the area in [Read the full story …]
Kew Gardens
Visited on September 7, 2009 David and I visited Kew Gardens in September 2009, which coincided with the 250th anniversary of the founding of the gardens as a botanic garden. It was 1759 when Princess Augusta, mother of King George III, started a nine-acre botanical collection of plants at Kew Palace. At that time Kew [Read the full story …]
Bantry House And Gardens
BANTRY HOUSE AND GARDEN Visited on June 13, 2012 With members of the Lakeland Horticulture Society Bantry Bay on the southwest coast of Ireland is a deep natural harbor where the Atlantic Ocean waters are warmed by the Gulf Stream creating a seaside climate that allows a variety of temperate plants to thrive at the [Read the full story …]
Harlow Carr
Visited on September 22, 2007 Our trip to the Royal Horticulture Society (RHS) Harlow Carr gardens was an impromptu adventure that we undertook on the advise of one of the Holehird volunteers. It was a gorgeous Saturday and provided an opportunity to see some of the countryside and towns east of Manchester. The RHS Harlow [Read the full story …]