gardens dublin

Fernhill is a garden where the plants come first, not the architecture. covering some forty acres in a superb location overlooking Dublin Bay, it contains a comprehensive collection of trees and shrubs in an informal 'Robinsonian' layout that adapts the plants to the terrain....

The Iveagh Gardens are among the finest and least known of Dublin's parks and gardens. They were designed by Ninian Niven, in 1865, as an intermediate design between the "French Formal' and the 'English Landscape" styles. They demonstrated the artistic skills of the landscape Architect of the mid 19th century and display a unique collection of landscape features which include Rustic Grotto's and Cascade, sunken formal panels of lawn with Fountain Centre Pieces, Wilderness Woodlands, Maze, Rosa...

The Gardens, 19.5 hectares on the south bank of the Tolka, contain many attractive features including an arboretum, rock garden and Burren area, large pond, extensive herbaceous borders, student garden and annual display of decorative plants including a rare example of Victorian carpet bedding.

Glass houses include the beautifully restored curvilinear range built by Richard Turner between 1843 and 1869. The large Palm House is being restored. There is a well stocked alpine house and...

On the south bank of the River Liffey, opposite the Phoenix Park, are the war memorial gardens at Islandbridge, dedicated to the memory of the 49,400 Irish soldiers who died in the 1914-1918 war. The gardens, designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens and laid out in 1931, have been splendidly restored....

Opening times:
March, July and August (Daily) 14.00 - 18.00
April, May and June (Sundays only) 14.00 -18.00

Closed for the winter months.  

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The Gardens as they exist today were largely created by Lord Milo Talbot in the years 1948 to 1973 and cover an area of over 8 ha - 6.5 ha of shrubbery and 1.5 ha of Walled Gardens.

An emphasis has been placed on the cultivation of plants from the Southern Hemisphere - many species and varieties collected by Lord Talbot. Genera which are particularly well represented are Olearia, Azara, Escallonia, Pittosporum, Syringa, Hypericum, Clematis, Euphorbia, Nothofagus, Salvia and Berberis....