PETER O’MAHONY kept a close eye on his wife’s gardening duties while 13,000km from home.
The Ireland and Munster legend is in South Africa to represent the Barbarians against the Springboks in his final game before retirement.
Peter O’Mahony was keeping a close eye on his garden while in South Africa[/caption]
His wife Jessica tended to plants on her birthday[/caption]
Despite this, he remains invested in the progress of his back garden, tasking wife Jessica with his maintenance.
Such has been his interest that he shared a screengrab from a surveillance camera of the mum-of-three tending to plants on her birthday.
Jess responded to this by remarking how “Pierre gives no days off from gardening“.
She subsequently posted a photo of a Facetime call with O’Mahony, although she suggested it was not between husband and wife.
Jess quipped: “Pierre Facetiming his tomatoes”.
It is a good thing that the mum-of-three has been helping out with the garden while her husband has been away considering the extensive work he recently finished on it.
The dad-of-three took to Instagram to outline an extensive job he had been conducting in recent weeks.
Alongside a video of the work being done, O’Mahony revealed that it had required 15 bags of manure and three TONNES of mulch.
He explained: “I’ve been planning to revamp the herbaceous planting in all 3 beds over the last few years.
“I’m happy with the structural planting now but I knew the flowering had a big refresh in it.
“Over a few weeks recently we removed all bulbs, perennial plants, plants that I had moved from pots into beds and weeds.
“We then drew up a small list of plants that we repeated in groups along the boarders.
“2 of the smaller beds are quite shaded so the planting in them is different to the long boarder witch is mostly full sun.
“We planted nearly 300 perennials and some grasses throughout the 3 beds.
“Then added lots of garden compost and 15 bags of well rotted manure followed by 3 tonne bags of mulch.
“I think what we’ve come up with now is a longer flowering period that should have interest from Spring to Autumn.
“Plan is now to do a full planting of bulbs come winter time but as of now I’m delighted with the way it’s turning out.
“I’ll keep you up dated on how it matures…!”
