Tag: Ireland

  • Windflower, aka Japanese Anemone

    Windflower, aka Japanese Anemone

    At this point I feel like nearly half the pictures I take these days are of flowers, with hopes google, or some other AI will help me identify it. While I like the ease of identification google lens offers, Claude AI gives some very informative answers, in this case I asked it simply if it…

  • erysimum cheiranthus

    erysimum cheiranthus

    I’m spending a lot of time right now getting help from the magic of the Internet to put names to the various plants and flowers I saw / photographed at the Bible Garden in Cobh. The scientific name is a mouthful, but the common name has me wondering if this flower is the floral equivalent…

  • Geranium, possibly the  purple cranesbill

    Geranium, possibly the  purple cranesbill

    I ran across these flowers growing in a park not far from the cruise terminal and train station in Cobh, Ireland. When I first asked the internet what they might be, it came back with Geraniums, but interestingly, adding the information they grew in Ireland, in a seemingly wild profusion, the AI then added they…

  • Daisy Fleabane

    Daisy Fleabane

    The Bible Garden at St. Benedict’s Priory in Cobh, formerly Admiralty House was our destination of choice during a day in port, and we were delighted with our walk along this serene path between plantings and Gardens where we saw a beautiful mix of familiar and new to me plants and flowers. Between the garden…