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Posts by category

• Category: Blog
  • Patterns of History – Wallpaper Exhibition at Fota House
  • Hope Foundation Story Telling & Punch and Judy Show
  • Open Air Live Music with Violini at Fota House
  • Category: Events
    • A Fairytale Christmas at Fota House
    • Halloween Witches Walk at Fota House, Arboretum & Gardens
    • WonderWorld Productions Halloween Spookfest at Fota House
  • Category: Featured
  • Category: Food
    • An Eastern Gem – Other gardens
    • From Free Soil to Warm Earth – New York to Cork
    • Anything Kew can do…..Ginkgo Biloba – yin xing 銀杏
    • Celebrate Autumn’s “mists and mellow fruitfulness”!
    • You say to-may-toh… I say poisonous mandrake!
    • The Bees Knees….
  • Category: Gardening
    • What time is it in Fota? It’s rhododendron time!
    • What’s flowering in the Fota Frameyard?
    • We’re open! Come and visit us in the Fota Frameyard.
    • W is for Wallflower
    • And if there’s ONE tree you must see at Fota…
    • A Tale of 2 Trees or a Tree of 2 Halves?
    • Our own BFGs in Fota!
    • Chocolate or Vanilla?
    • From China to Fota – The Handkerchief Tree
    • Can you throw your hat through the tree? Pruning in Fota orchard…
    • Between the car park and the Frameyard…
    • A gardener’s work is never done
    • A Woman’s Place is in the Garden – Meet Gertrude Jekyll
    • Building the walls
    • The art of the garden
    • Behind the scenes at Fota – the Volunteers
    • October Glory – Acer rubrum
  • Category: General Information
    • The Last Letter
    • Mrs Rundell’s Really Rich Custard
    • Preparing for Christmas, Dressings Aside …
    • The unbelievable tale of Lady Barrymore ‘The Boxing Baroness’ – boxing and boozing in Regency London
    • The Columbine, Cowes and The Water Club of the Harbour of Cork … More Racing Around in Yachts!
    • Racing around in yachts – sailing for pleasure with the Smith-Barrys in honour of Annalise
    • Fota and the Rising, April 24 1916
    • Tally ho! A Jolly Good Show! … Foxhunting and Ascendancy in Co. Cork
    • Sprinkles and your letters to Santa!
    • Sprinkles the Elf is Decorating Fota House for Christmas!
    • Christmas with the Bells
    • Sprinkles is getting ready for the Magic of Santa at Fota House!
    • The seasons at Fota: winter slowly arrives
    • Robert Raymond Smith Barry, Pioneer Pilot
  • Category: Guest Blogs
    • “The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.”
  • Category: Heritage
    • Clint Eastwood and the Talking Trees
  • Category: Local (gardening) Heroes
    • Local (gardening) Heroes
  • Category: Nature
    • A Murder of Crows
    • Bath time at Fota!
    • Getting your birds on the property ladder!
    • Fota Frameyard Swallows
  • Category: Other Gardens
  • Category: Trees
  • Category: Volunteer's plant choice
    • From the Canaries to Fota
    • A wonderful addition to any garden…
    • 3 great “Workhorses” for your garden
    • Strawberry Trees Forever…
    • Gabriella’s Choice -The Sweet Pea
    • Edwina’s choice – Morina Longifolia – Himalayan whorlflower