With Dr Catherine Keena, Teagasc Countryside Management Specialist
Look out for cock’s foot seed heads which are tufted, triangular flowerheads comprising clumps of spikelets. As its name as Gaeilge suggests, garbh fhéar or rough grass becomes coarse and unpalatable after flowering. It does yield well especially early and withstands drought because of its deep roots.
While normally best to let nature take its course and not sow ‘wild’ flowers where ground cover is needed to outcompete problem weeds or invasive alien species, sowing cock’s foot seed is recommended and is sown in arable grass margins in ACRES. Cock’s foot grows in dense tussocks ideal for overwintering spiders and sites for egg laying invertebrates and is part of our native Irish biodiversity.
Preparing for Gardens and Galleries in Innishannon is from left to right, Gerry Foley, Alice Taylor, Mary Nolan O'Brien and Peter Fehily.
Innishannon in Co Cork celebrates its 7th Gardens and Galleries event over the weekend of 29 and 30 June.
Beginning at the Parish Hall, your €10 ticket offers access to all the events, details of all the participating venues, and transport to some of the beautiful gardens in outlying areas.
Don’t forget to tour the many varied gardens and exhibitions in the heart of the village either, like for example, the new Linen Garden created to celebrate the local GAA field’s past use as home to a linen industry in years gone by.
There will be history walks of the village, nature walks through Dromkeen Wood, gramophone recitals in Rohu’s Country Market and a mini vintage show.
We found it the time of the war, in the west side of the bog. ‘Twas a three sod bog. We were cutting away and the next thing we saw this little bit of timber falling out
500,000 people identified as carers countrywide in 2023, according to Family Carers Ireland. Read more about the challenge of balancing care with the needs of the carer
Three-year-old Paddy Burke just loves watching the JF850 Harvester in action at silage time. \Submitted by Gerard Burke, Co Mayo
Paddy Mathews, head of operations for Ireland’s Hidden Heartlands at Fáilte Ireland
Do you have an idea for a regenerative tourism project in the midlands? Don’t forget that 30 June is the closing date to get your proposal in for the Regenerative Tourism and Placemaking Scheme.
Co-funded by the Government of Ireland and the EU Just Transition fund, its ambition is to attract more visitors to the midland counties and lengthen their stay by expanding the range of attractions to see and enjoy.
Drop a line From Bar Stool Notions of Poetry by Jonathan Roth
“Penny dropped me a line yesterday”
Any news?
No, not much to say
Did you reply?
No, I’m getting some paper today
Where does to “drop a line”
come from?
Many hundreds of years ago
Our forefathers went to the post box
And ‘dropped’ their letters in to go.
Will you drop me a line
when you arrive?
This custom no longer survives.
No more dropping in the mail
Now it’s all WhatsApp and email.
But maybe it is the same
Email versus snail mail
But the pen in the hand is
still the best
As most Elder Lemons will attest.
The lovely weight of the
Montblanc pen
Is the signature of men
The ink flows on the page
To drop a line at any age.
With Dr Catherine Keena, Teagasc Countryside Management Specialist
Look out for cock’s foot seed heads which are tufted, triangular flowerheads comprising clumps of spikelets. As its name as Gaeilge suggests, garbh fhéar or rough grass becomes coarse and unpalatable after flowering. It does yield well especially early and withstands drought because of its deep roots.
While normally best to let nature take its course and not sow ‘wild’ flowers where ground cover is needed to outcompete problem weeds or invasive alien species, sowing cock’s foot seed is recommended and is sown in arable grass margins in ACRES. Cock’s foot grows in dense tussocks ideal for overwintering spiders and sites for egg laying invertebrates and is part of our native Irish biodiversity.
Preparing for Gardens and Galleries in Innishannon is from left to right, Gerry Foley, Alice Taylor, Mary Nolan O'Brien and Peter Fehily.
Innishannon in Co Cork celebrates its 7th Gardens and Galleries event over the weekend of 29 and 30 June.
Beginning at the Parish Hall, your €10 ticket offers access to all the events, details of all the participating venues, and transport to some of the beautiful gardens in outlying areas.
Don’t forget to tour the many varied gardens and exhibitions in the heart of the village either, like for example, the new Linen Garden created to celebrate the local GAA field’s past use as home to a linen industry in years gone by.
There will be history walks of the village, nature walks through Dromkeen Wood, gramophone recitals in Rohu’s Country Market and a mini vintage show.
We found it the time of the war, in the west side of the bog. ‘Twas a three sod bog. We were cutting away and the next thing we saw this little bit of timber falling out
500,000 people identified as carers countrywide in 2023, according to Family Carers Ireland. Read more about the challenge of balancing care with the needs of the carer
Three-year-old Paddy Burke just loves watching the JF850 Harvester in action at silage time. \Submitted by Gerard Burke, Co Mayo
Paddy Mathews, head of operations for Ireland’s Hidden Heartlands at Fáilte Ireland
Do you have an idea for a regenerative tourism project in the midlands? Don’t forget that 30 June is the closing date to get your proposal in for the Regenerative Tourism and Placemaking Scheme.
Co-funded by the Government of Ireland and the EU Just Transition fund, its ambition is to attract more visitors to the midland counties and lengthen their stay by expanding the range of attractions to see and enjoy.
Drop a line From Bar Stool Notions of Poetry by Jonathan Roth
“Penny dropped me a line yesterday”
Any news?
No, not much to say
Did you reply?
No, I’m getting some paper today
Where does to “drop a line”
come from?
Many hundreds of years ago
Our forefathers went to the post box
And ‘dropped’ their letters in to go.
Will you drop me a line
when you arrive?
This custom no longer survives.
No more dropping in the mail
Now it’s all WhatsApp and email.
But maybe it is the same
Email versus snail mail
But the pen in the hand is
still the best
As most Elder Lemons will attest.
The lovely weight of the
Montblanc pen
Is the signature of men
The ink flows on the page
To drop a line at any age.
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