Gardens open to visit
Real gardens across the island, from walled demesnes to one-family plots — with when to catch them at their best.
Pearse Museum and St. Enda’s Park
A rare, surviving example of a nineteenth-century walled estate in Dublin.
Phoenix Park
As a royal deer-hunting park, Phoenix Park was first opened to the public in 1747.
Phoenix Park Victorian Walled Garden
Beautifully restored to its original nineteenth-century layout, the garden is an oasis of herbaceous borders and trained fruit and vegetables, pollinated by honeybees and all grown under international organic principles.
Ratoath Garden Centre Gardens
Two acres of show garden specialising in perennials, shrub roses and hydrangeas.
Ross Castle Garden
Formal, eighteenth century, one-acre walled garden with greenhouse surrounded by four 'rooms' filled with interesting plants and beside it a two-acre, seventeenth century walled garden with vegetable sections within a…
