The grounds of Blarney Castle are looking amazing right now. The flowers are blooming and it’s a beautiful day out!

A selection of the crocuses growing in the grounds of Blarney Castle right now. [gallery type="rectangular" link="file" ids="16101,16102,16106,16105,16104,16103,16100"]

If you go down to Blarney Castle now you’ll see 30,000 daffodils blooming in the beautiful gardens there. In my last post I joked that the daffodils were confused but it’s a plant that flowers early and tolerates the cold so it’s perfect for this time of year. Be sure to check out Ferbal O’Callaghan’s…

There are some confused daffodils in Blarney Castle this year, out in January! I hope the rest of January is mild enough for them. I posted a similar photo on Instagram a few hours ago, just in case you’re getting a strange sense of déjà vu.

Beautiful roses at the entrance to Blarney Castle in Co Cork, Ireland.

Beautiful yellow flowers in Fitzgerald Park are one of the pleasures of the park in the summer. The garden in front of the museum always looks beautiful and well tended.

Yellow flowers poke through the bars on the Blackrock side of the Line. 2010.

Flowers in the gardens of Blarney Castle. Never once in my wildest nightmares did I ever imagine that I’d post a camera phone image as a single post but here it is. Taken with my Samsung Galaxy S4. There’s obvious JPEG artefacts when you view the original at 100% but this 800×600 pixel image is…

Cherry blossom trees never fail to make my wife Jacinta gasp as they’re so beautiful. This one is in the grounds of Blarney Castle and I don’t think she knows (or she’s forgotten) it’s there! Many years ago I posted another photo of cherry blossom on the day of our wedding. It’s not quite that…

A flower or weed? A weed is only a flower in the wrong place, or so I’ve heard. This was taken at Seaside in Florida during the Automattic meetup there in 2010. Beautiful beach there, horrible humidity in September! This will probably be my last post of the year here so happy new year and…