belvedere gardens

Belvedere is an exquisite house with an unusual elongated plan set in a fine landscape park overlooking Lough Ennell.
When the property passed to Charles Marley, he commenced the development of the Walled Garden and also added the terraces facing the lake. The garden was further developed by Col. Howard Bury who was an amateur plant colllector, and his additions to the garden were many.

The Gardens might be divided into two parts, consisting of the walled garden and the arboretum surrounding the House. The most striking aspect of the Walled Garden is its unusual narrow rectangular shape which on entering, permits a panormic view of its colourful interior. It still retains all the hallmarks associated with an 18th Century pleasure garden. When Col. Bury developed the garden, he brought to it some of the choice flowering plants he had encountered in his journeyings. Many still grow here like the gentian bleu echinops.

The old eighteenth Century introduction, Forthergilla, has blooms like a demure "Bottlebrush".