Anyone here from Ireland

[sorce]

Follow the Pollard Man.
I mean, the truck for real, not on Instagram!

Sorce

 

[Jansai..]

There is no wilderness - there is always someone that owns the land and you need permission and unfortunately i dont know any location....

By wilderness I just mean some some field or a bit of woodland, the closest we'll get in Ireland.

 

[Dryad]

Does anyone here know if hornbeams or elms can be found in the Irish wilderness?

Elm seems to be common enough here, particularly the wych elm in rural ireland (the only native elm), but I've yet to come across hornbeam outside of hedgerows and the occasional garden/park tree. In my (albeit short) experience we have a lot more access to the likes of hawthorn, beech, crab, wild cherry & oak in the 'wilderness'. But as @eryk2kartman has said already, someone always owns the land!

 

[Jansai..]

Elm seems to be common enough here, particularly the wych elm in rural ireland (the only native elm), but I've yet to come across hornbeam outside of hedgerows and the occasional garden/park tree. In my (albeit short) experience we have a lot more access to the likes of hawthorn, beech, crab, wild cherry & oak in the 'wilderness'. But as @eryk2kartman has said already, someone always owns the land!

It's a shame hornbeams are uncommon here, they are my favourite tree. But at least we have miles of hawthorn, as you said.

 

[BobbyLane]

It's a shame hornbeams are uncommon here, they are my favourite tree. But at least we have miles of hawthorn, as you said.

have you thought about starting with hedging material? all my hornbeams have been from hedging nurseries. same goes for elms, many a great elm has been plucked from a hedgerow.

 

[Jansai..]

have you thought about starting with hedging material? all my hornbeams have been from hedging nurseries. same goes for elms, many a great elm has been plucked from a hedgerow.

Yes. Your posts have been a great inspiration to me. I'm keeping my eye out for garden centre hornbeams with nice trunks. I have yet to find one though.

 

[BonsaiEire]

Hi @Jansai..
Not sure what part of the country you are in but there are a couple of good nurseries not too far from Dublin with loads of hedging you might find something look up Tully nurseries and also van der wel in Wicklow.

 

[Jansai..]

Hi @Jansai..
Not sure what part of the country you are in but there are a couple of good nurseries not too far from Dublin with loads of hedging you might find something look up Tully nurseries and also van der wel in Wicklow.

Thanks for the suggestions! I will be sure to go.

 

[AlainK]

Hornbeam is a UK native woodland tree of course. you will find them in hedgerows, in fields, in gardens, in forests everywhere

Right, and in Ireland too...

Some of my friends who went or spent some time in Ireland came with a pendant, or earrings representing the "tree of life", like :

Irish Elm Celtic Tree Of Life necklace

This delicately kand-carved Irish elm Celtic tree of life necklace will be made for you, or a loved one, in my studio on the West of Ireland.

fretmajic.com

 

[deanpwr]

Anyone know where to source bonsai soil mix in Dublin? Or at least pumice, it's a nightmare to find any. I haven't had any luck with the UK websites shipping cheaply to Ireland these days either!

 

[Jansai..]

Anyone know where to source bonsai soil mix in Dublin? Or at least pumice, it's a nightmare to find any. I haven't had any luck with the UK websites shipping cheaply to Ireland these days either!

I can't find any soil mixes either! I have to just buy off Amazon.

 

[AlainK]

I was planning to go to Ireland (the Republic) before the two plagues of the century : Brexit and Covid-19. I've alredy spent a few days in "Norn'Irn", Belfast, Derry and a couple of very nice places, but I'd really love to discover Southern Ireland.
In the days of "folk music", I saw Planxty onstage, at the Bataclan in Paris. Although I I think Irish culture is much more than that, that it's not stuck in the past, a stale vision of who they are, like those of the Brits that voted to "keep the fantasy of the empire great again" huh huh...
I'll have my second jab in July, I'm planning to discover the green island if that bloody pandemic is at last behind...

 

[Jansai..]

I was planning to go to Ireland (the Republic) before the two plagues of the century : Brexit and Covid-19. I've alredy spent a few days in "Norn'Irn", Belfast, Derry and a couple of very nice places, but I'd really love to discover Southern Ireland.
In the days of "folk music", I saw Planxty onstage, at the Bataclan in Paris. Although I I think Irish culture is much more than that, that it's not stuck in the past, a stale vision of who they are, like those of the Brits that voted to "keep the fantasy of the empire great again" huh huh...
I'll have my second jab in July, I'm planning to discover the green island if that bloody pandemic is at last behind...

Go to Kerry! It's the most beautiful place in the whole country. And go as soon as you get the jab because it's much nicer there during lockdown when there's no one cars blocking up the roads, preventing you from going to certain areas.

 

[AlainK]

Go to Kerry!

I will ! Some day, soon I hope.

 

[AlainK]

The kind of places I went to in Belfast. I met very nice people there, even a niece of Bobby Sands.
My younger son is on one of the photos :

 

[eryk2kartman]

Nice one Alain
I found very little of Bonsai soil supply in Ireland, now with Brexit, im not sure if UK import makes any sense unless you buy under 20 euro each time.....
I use Perlite, Sanicat pink(cat litter) and potting grit, i didn't find any good source of bark(i get regular one and cut it down to smaller pieces)

 

[BonsaiEire]

Anyone know where to source bonsai soil mix in Dublin? Or at least pumice, it's a nightmare to find any. I haven't had any luck with the UK websites shipping cheaply to Ireland these days either!

If you contact bonsai Eejit(he's on Instagram) he can sort you out with everything you might need. I got some mixes from ibuki bonsai in Poland and it worked out a decent price I thought. Urban plant life in city centre also sometimes have akadama but on the expensive side.

 

[John B.]

County council in Sth. Tipp say you can take any saplings / stumps from the road side verges so long as you leave the road clean - no soil - debris strewn on roadway afterwards

 

[John B.]

 

[John B.]

40+yr old hawthorn