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A beautiful Arts and Crafts garden where visitors experience simplicity and
complexity at the same time. Relaxing, but at times challenging, this 14
acre space stimulates the senses and the imagination.
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Demesne gardens with formal terraces, herbaceous borders, and a vegetable and flower garden with mixed annuals.
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This floral oasis in the Laois farmland was established 15 years ago. In the old farmyard, a
sundial is surrounded by box hedging and flowers. A rambling red rose climbs the gable end of an old stone farm building. Near the house, a seated area is shaded by a pergola covered in wisteria. From here visitors can admire the rockeries, the raised lavender bed, the upright yews and the weeping copper beech.
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Clonohill Gardens are the splendid creation of floral artist Enda Thompson-Phelan, and feature many interesting and unusual plants on a one acre site surrounding Clonohill House.
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Although this garden was only established in 2005, it has already featured in the Farmers
Journal, Irish Times and Irish Independent as well as Jane Powers’ book The Living Garden.
Dunmore Country School has also featured on RTE’s Nationwide and Dermot’s Secret Garden.
It covers approximately 1 acre. It is not a show garden, rather a working kitchen garden, which is
dedicated to teaching. It is, in the owner's (Tanguy de Toulgoët) words, “not a display garden but a garden in progress”.
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100 acres of parkland with formal lawns, mature trees and a nursery lake all located against the backdrop of a stately 18th century building.
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Walled-in garden of approximately 1 acre with richly planted perennial borders containing many unusual plants, Hornbeam tunnel, orchard, fruit and vegetable garden, oak copse, yew hedges, beautiful climbing roses and many other lovely trees and shrubs.
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A hidden treasure trove of interesting and unusual plants in an enchanting and tranquil setting.
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50 acres of woodland, lakes and formal gardens including the sunken garden designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens.
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Calm relaxed style of garden built and planted by service users at Dove House.