In early October 2011, I was on a work trip in Ireland (Cork) and stopped off to see the city’s botanical garden for the first time!
All posts from Dublin in 2011 http://www.edimentals.com/blog/?p=20530
Berberis and other unusual fruit at the botanics in Dublin: http://www.edimentals.com/blog/?p=20547
Medimental border in Dublin 2011: http://www.edimentals.com/blog/?p=20550
Yellow Yews in Dublin: http://www.edimentals.com/blog/?p=20580
Other edible plants: http://www.edimentals.com/blog/?p=20607
Starting in one of the glasshouses, Szygium paniculatum, magenta lilly pilly or magenta cherry is a wild fruit in south east Australia
Plantago arborescens subsp maderensis
Coffee
Sugar cane
Cardamon
Manihot esculenta
Taro (Colocasia esculenta)
Vaccinium variingifolium var variingifolium
Despite the name African wild potato, Hypoxis hemerocallidea, seems only to be used medicinally
Boehmeria platyphylla is a member of the nettle family, used for its fibers in Nepal
Boehmeria platyphylla
Patrinia spp.
Patrinia spp.
Houttunyia cordata (Himalayan water creeper) can be invasive
Good king henry (Chenopodium bonus-henricus)
Atriplex halimus
Aralia echinocaulis
Aralia echinocaulis
Paretaria judaica
Rosa pimpinellifolia “Rubra”
Oca (Oxalis tuberosa)
Tradescantia virginiana
The Maize Maze
Pontederia cordata and Mentha aquatica
Gunnera chilensis
A rooting spade!
Pachira aquatica, Malabar chestnut> although the nuts are eaten, they may be a carcinogen according to some studies
Bamboo
Bamboo shoots
Garden art!
Dahlias
Dahlias
Dahlias
Salvia microphylla “Huntington”
A new native plant garden was under construction…here the Burren!
The Burren
Zanthoxylum piperitum…the biggest tree I’ve seen!
Zanthoxylum piperitum…the biggest tree I’ve seen!
Smilax aspera
Smilax megalantha
Variegated ground elder (Aegopodium podogaria) grown as a woodland ground cover with butcher’s broon (Ruscus aculeatus)
The rose garden
At the Dublin Botanical Gardens, there was a superb collection of mature Yew trees – here are 3 yellow deviants…
Taxus baccata “Lutea” – Yellow-berried European Yew
Taxus baccata “Aurea” – Yellow-leaved Yew
Taxus cuspidata “Lutea” – Yellow-berried Japanese Yew
In early October 2011, I was on a work trip in Ireland (Cork) and stopped off to see the city’s botanical garden for the first time! I found this border composed of medicinal and edible ornamentals…a medimental border…
All posts from Dublin in 2011 http://www.edimentals.com/blog/?p=20530
Berberis and other unusual fruit at the botanics in Dublin: http://www.edimentals.com/blog/?p=20547
Medimental border in Dublin 2011: http://www.edimentals.com/blog/?p=20550
Yellow Yews in Dublin: http://www.edimentals.com/blog/?p=20580
Other edible plants: http://www.edimentals.com/blog/?p=20607
Medimental border at the National Botanical Garden in Dublin
Black Tuscany and Redbor Kales and Golden Feverfew (Matrem)
Golden Feverfew (Matrem), Garden Heliotrope (Heliotropium arborescens “Marine”) and Bull’s Blood Beetroot
Various swiss chard cultivars and Ricinus communis (Castor Oill plant)
Garden Heliotrope (Heliotropium arborescens “Marine”) and Redbor Kale
In early October 2011, I was on a work trip in Ireland (Cork) and stopped off to see the city’s botanical garden for the first time! Here’s a series of pictures of unusual fruit bushes and trees taken on my recent visit to the National Botanical Garden in Dublin. I’d never seen such a good collection of Berberis before – impressive diversity…
All posts from Dublin in 2011 http://www.edimentals.com/blog/?p=20530
Berberis and other unusual fruit at the botanics in Dublin: http://www.edimentals.com/blog/?p=20547
Medimental border in Dublin 2011: http://www.edimentals.com/blog/?p=20550
Yellow Yews in Dublin: http://www.edimentals.com/blog/?p=20580
Other edible plants: http://www.edimentals.com/blog/?p=20607
Decaisnea fargesii
Mahonia aquifolium “Undulata Nana”
Berberis x carminea “Pirate King”
Berberis sikkimensis
Berberis breviopedunculata
Berberis polyantha
Berberis veitchii
Berberis phanera
Poncirus trifoliata, Hardy Orange/ Dversitron – never seen a bush quite this large. It wasn’t hardy enough for my garden and I lost mine after it sulked for 3 years
Actinidia arguta, Tara Vine (Grønnkattebusk)
Strawberry Tree, Arbutus unedo “Angustifolia”
Sorbus devoniensis
In early October 2011, I was on a work trip in Ireland (Cork) and stopped off to see the city’s botanical garden for the first time!
All posts from Dublin in 2011 http://www.edimentals.com/blog/?p=20530
Berberis and other unusual fruit at the botanics in Dublin: http://www.edimentals.com/blog/?p=20547
Medimental border in Dublin 2011: http://www.edimentals.com/blog/?p=20550
Yellow Yews in Dublin: http://www.edimentals.com/blog/?p=20580
Other edible plants: http://www.edimentals.com/blog/?p=20607
Greenhouse with Achoca (Cyclanthera pedata) growing on the far wall
Achocha (Cyclanthera pedata) an Andean vegetable
My guide!
A giant landrace cabbage from Donegal – Gortahork
A giant landrace cabbage from Donegal – Gortahork
Kales
Traditional Apple tree collection
Bull’s Blood Beetroot
A crab apple with a very long name: Malus x zumi var calocarpa “Professor Sprengeri”
The Fruit and Vegetable Garden was opened in 2008
Garden view
Garden view
Perennial vegetables, Edimentals (plants that are edible and ornamental) and other goings on in The Edible Garden
