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Title: Jo Hynes visits Norn Iron
Post by: mark smyth on February 22, 2010, 10:17:34 PM: Jo has been with us since Friday and goes home of Wednesday.

day 1 - snowdrop day
day 2 - Giants Causeway + Antrim Coast
day 3 - Robin Hall + Botanic Gardens Glasnevin
day 4 - Mountains of Mourne + Castlewellan Arboretum
day 5 - David & Janet Ledsham's garden - weather permitting.
Title: Re: Jo Hynes visits Norn Iron
Post by: mark smyth on February 22, 2010, 10:21:40 PM: Giants Causeway in a random order. Jo will add her's when she gets home
Title: Re: Jo Hynes visits Norn Iron
Post by: mark smyth on February 22, 2010, 10:25:46 PM: Waterfoot at the foot of Glenariff on the Antrom Coast road. Scotland just across the sea
Title: Re: Jo Hynes visits Norn Iron
Post by: mark smyth on February 22, 2010, 10:27:50 PM: Frost on the trees. Why would frost form on only the south side of the twigs?

Bushmills River. Now you know why whiskey is brown :D
Title: Re: Jo Hynes visits Norn Iron
Post by: Martin Baxendale on February 23, 2010, 12:04:19 AM: Quote from: mark smyth on February 22, 2010, 10:27:50 PM
Bushmills River. Now you know why whiskey is brown :D

I'm currently working my way through a bottle of Bushmills. In fact, think I'll have a quick nightcap right now. Night, night!
Title: Re: Jo Hynes visits Norn Iron
Post by: cohan on February 25, 2010, 12:10:14 AM: Quote from: mark smyth on February 22, 2010, 10:27:50 PM
Frost on the trees. Why would frost form on only the south side of the twigs?

Bushmills River. Now you know why whiskey is brown :D

nice photos, interesting to see the area..
frost often forms mainly or exclusively on one side --i often find looking one direction the view is white, the other direction looks bare--there will have been fog drifting in from one side, and crystals forming only on that side; when the fog is more pervasive and/or lasts longer, it will be all over...
Title: Re: Jo Hynes visits Norn Iron
Post by: mark smyth on February 25, 2010, 03:36:39 PM: Jo meets Robin Hall
Jo meets Margaret Glynn
Jo and Tom in Dublin's botanic gardens
Title: Re: Jo Hynes visits Norn Iron
Post by: Ragged Robin on February 25, 2010, 03:49:52 PM: Great atmospheric photos, Mark, and I really like the light in Waterfoot 01 and the swell and crest of the wave. Your new Avatar really suits your style 8)
Title: Re: Jo Hynes visits Norn Iron
Post by: Luc Gilgemyn on February 25, 2010, 03:54:55 PM: Quote from: Ragged Robin on February 25, 2010, 03:49:52 PM
Your new Avatar really suits your style 8)

Very distinguished if you ask me ! :D ;) 8)
Title: Re: Jo Hynes visits Norn Iron
Post by: mark smyth on February 25, 2010, 05:39:30 PM: shootin', fishin', huntin' type
Title: Re: Jo Hynes visits Norn Iron
Post by: Martin Baxendale on February 25, 2010, 06:22:17 PM: Quote from: mark smyth on February 25, 2010, 03:36:39 PM
Jo meets Robin Hall
Jo meets Margaret Glynn
Jo and Tom in Dublin's botanic gardens

Nice to see Margaret's lovely smile - it's so infectious. Hope to bump into her at Margaret Owen's at the weekend. Not that the rest of you don't have nice smiles too, of course. It's just that there's something about Margaret's smile that just makes me want to smile too. ;D
Title: Re: Jo Hynes visits Norn Iron
Post by: tonyg on February 25, 2010, 10:51:36 PM: Quote from: mark smyth on February 25, 2010, 05:39:30 PM
shootin', fishin', huntin' type
I'd stick to fishin' ..... safer :D
Title: Re: Jo Hynes visits Norn Iron
Post by: angie on February 25, 2010, 11:06:06 PM: Mark you look very pleased with yourself, anything your not telling us... maybe you have won the lottery ::)
Angie
Title: Re: Jo Hynes visits Norn Iron
Post by: mark smyth on February 25, 2010, 11:48:26 PM: lottery - I wish
Title: Re: Jo Hynes visits Norn Iron
Post by: Jo on March 17, 2010, 12:17:52 PM: Hey folks ,its about time Jo put some pics of her trip to NI up here. Tom and I had a wonderful time and were really spoilt by Mark and Margaret.

Mark played the perfect host and showed us all round the sites. The Giants Causeway was fantastic, I don't know what I expected but it was better than that :)

We visited some wonderful gardens and saw some mouth watering snowdrops, colchicums and crocus. Marks greenhouse is a real treat.

The photos below show Marks place and some of his plants. Needless to say I didn't write down names so the colchicum, covered in frost had a long name starting with K? Mark ? And the crocus had a wonderful bronze reverse.

The Hellebore was spectacular, all covered with frost.
Title: Re: Jo Hynes visits Norn Iron
Post by: mark smyth on March 17, 2010, 07:30:14 PM: More! more! more!

Colchicum sz ... 'Tivi'