gardens'weekend

Mount Usher and Kilruddery are very interesting gardens but walking all day under surprisingly shining sun also rather tiring...

Miriam found a nice resting place fitting here size :)

nice sunday saw us wandering through two remarkable gardens with our Hungarian friend... there was even a time for some dendrological demonstrations...

Lismore castle

still in Fota sitting in the gardens' petal-like chairs  and 
having Adrea as a co-discoverer of flowering questions

sitting in Miriam's preffered PINK SPIDER

first May weekend was bank holiday one, so we went to Cork and surroundings..

on our way back from Cork we visited Lismore castle gardens - with a glorious display of Rhododendrons in the lower grounds ...  rich herb and medicinal gardens and poorly treated fruit trees, both within its original space in upper castle gardens 

 all around that somehow scattered weird art artifacts - pink spider was however quite dear ;-) 

in Middleton hostel we met Andrea, a Hungarian Landscape achitectue student and had her pleasant company into Fota as well as to Lismore castle and up till Malahide

Fota wildlife park and gardens..