Day: May 20, 2025

Dia is mhuire diobh go léir a cáirde and welcome to my report.

Week upon week and the beautiful weather shines on. The turf machine arrived at Gneeves Bog a week ago  with more people than ever seeking it’s services, and this weather will put a hard seal the soft sods in the event of the rain, which is on the cards. It’s the same old story some want rain others do not  and it’s a good job that there is only one boss over it all and we must all abide by him.    More and more silage is being harvested. Some going into pits in the yard. More being rolled up into giant bales which can be seen from afar but only for a moment until the giant carriers come and lift them into trailers with no effort at all. More flowers come on stream as the weeks pass quickly by. The old fashioned rhododendrons at the entrance to the Mount Leader Estate on the Macroom road are breaking through the greenery, to provide a shock of colour to be enjoyed by all the passers by. In my early days this splash of colour was always admired with great glee. Because those were the days before Japanese Maples, Tropical Palms cultivated bloomers etc. and all the plants from foreign parts which adorn our gardens and parks today. Those were the days of the plain old native trees. The old fashioned cottage rose and the potted red geraniums. Geraniums, slips of which were handed on from mother to daughter and even when the old house became deserted, when going the road you could catch a glimpse of the old  flower pot inside a thickly cobwebbed window, with the geranium still in it after growing long and leggie up to the top of the window inside. I always wondered how it stayed alive without water or any care over the years.

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