This easy table modification all started because we live in cow country and where you have cows, you have flies. They drive me crazy in the summer so I am always looking for ways to deter them. The other day I was at OSH and the sales lady said that most herbs are a natural fly repellent. That got me thinking and this project was born. Now the jury is still out if this works on the flies but I love the end results anyway.
Chelsea Flower Show: Kerry gardener’s ‘dreams come true’ with gold medal and award
28.06.2023 - 09:47 / irishtimes.com
A former AIB banker-turned-gardener says he feels “like a five-year-old getting presents” after winning a major award as well as a prestigious gold medal at the Chelsea Flower Show in London.
Billy Alexander of Kells Bay House and Gardens in Cahersiveen on the Ring of Kerry arrived this morning into his exhibit at the show to find a coveted gold medal from Britain’s Royal Horticulture Society (RHS) sitting on his stand.
Then at about 11 o’clock today, he found out his fern garden had also beaten off about 50 other contenders to win the award for best exhibit in the Great Pavilion at the flower show, which runs all week in the grounds of the Royal Hospital Chelsea in west London.
“It is a dream come true,” Mr Alexander told The Irish Times, shortly after finding out that his garden had won the overall award in his section.
“A BBC camera crew came along and said to me that they needed to film a headshot of me. I said: ‘Okay, so do you want me to say anything?’ They said no and I thought: ‘This is a bit strange.’ And then the president of the RHS came along beside me and whispered in my ear that we had won the Pavilion award.”
[ Collecting ferns was like an addiction, I just kept collecting ]
Mr Alexander’s entry to the flower show is a garden inspired by the bogs of west Kerry, and includes rare and native ferns and a stone wall typical of the region. He says it was shipped from Kerry to London, via Holyhead, about eight days ago in a 40-foot lorry.
“We had to deal with Brexit paperwork and all the complications of that. Everything came in on the lorry in one go – rocks, moss, the wall and all the plants,” he said.
“I started on the garden and after I finished it, I just pottered around here for the last two days.”
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