On this day, April 5th, 1894, an advertisement for Belvelly Bricks was published in the Cork Constitution newspaper. The advertisement read: “A large quantity of these excellent bricks now in Yard. Pressed and moulded bricks in different shapes, either Continue reading →
for our annual Fota House Plant & Garden Fair from 11.00am to 4.00pm. The Fota Plant & Garden Fair is one of the highlights of the gardening calendar and is Continue reading →
Remembering John Charles Beswick: 5/10/1888 – 22/4/1917
A monument was unveiled last weekend commemorating 200 East Cork men who died in World War 1. This memorial was the culmination of three years of work by a group of local people. Continue reading →
When you enter the green door into the Frameyard, you are immediately met with a wonderful smell of vanilla. Straight in front of you is a fabulous shrub/small tree and it’s called Azara Microphylla ‘Variegata’.
An arboretum is a collection of different trees that can be cultivated for pleasure and beauty – such as in a very large garden or plantation. Or it may be used for the botanical study of the tree specimens contained in it.The name comes from arbor, the Latin word for tree.
In the second half of the 19th century there was a craze for ferns.This obsession came to be known as ‘fern fever’ or pteridomania – named after the Latin name for ferns which is pteridophytes. Ferns were collected, studied and admired on a very, very wide scale.As well as becoming a feature in gardens and as houseplants the fern was ubiquitous as a decorative motif.Fern patterns could be found on glassware, china, fabric, pottery, stucco and much more.In fact if you look carefully at the corbels in the billiard room in Fota – now the café- you can see ferns in the plasterwork.