The Art of Making Gardens
The show garden designer should not stray too far from the garden, we would imagine; it is the aim of his work but also the source of his inspiration and a detachment from the hands-on experience of working in a garden may leave the designer working in a vacuum with the danger that his creations […]
The Ceremonial Planting of Escallonia ‘C. F. Ball’ at the War Memorial Gardens.
The National War Memorial Gardens at Islandbridge, designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens, are dedicated to the memory of 49,400 Irish soldiers who died in the First World War. They are in a wonderful setting, along the River Liffey, and adjacent to the Phoenix Park. Escallonia ‘C F Ball’ is named for Charles Frederick Ball, who was killed at Gallipoli […]
A Visit to Hillsborough Castle Gardens, June 2016
IGPS members visited Hillsborough Castle House and Garden on the 4th June. The House was built in the 1770s by Wills Hill 1st Marquis of Downshire and was remodelled in the 1800s and then again in the 20th century. It passed to the British Goverment in 1922 and is now the official […]
