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The National Botanic Gardens, Kilmacurragh (Irish: Garraithe Náisiúnta na Lus, Cill Mochura) is a garden and arboretum outside Wicklow Town, County Wicklow, Ireland. It is a satellite of the main National Botanic Gardens located in Glasnevin, County Dublin. The 52 acre gardens are situated 5 km from exit 18 on the M11 motorway.
The gardens are also responsible for the arboretum at Kilmacurragh, County Wicklow, a centre noted for its conifers and calcifuges. This is located some 50 kilometres (31 miles) south of Dublin. A gateway into Glasnevin Cemetery adjacent to the gardens was reopened in recent years.
Also constructed during the 4th Earl's ownership was a summer house, pleasure garden, cherry garden, kitchen garden, gravel walks, a bowling green, a walled garden with fruit trees, a ha-ha, avenues, ponds, formal hedges, and a deer park. [5] In 1846, Daniel Robertson restored the gardens for the 11th Earl.
Japanese gardens at Powerscourt Estate. In 1844, at the age of 8, Mervyn Wingfield, 7th Viscount Powerscourt, inherited the title and the Powerscourt Estate, which comprised 200 km 2 (77 sq mi) of land in Ireland. When young Lord Powerscourt reached the age of 21, he embarked on an extensive renovation of the house and created the new gardens.
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The Mount Usher Gardens and Arboretum are located at the end of the village nearer Wicklow Town. The gardens were previously owned and operated by Madelaine Jay and the Jay family, but recently the gardens and shopping courtyard were leased to the Avoca Handweavers company, which originated in Avoca, County Wicklow, and which was owned and operated by the Pratt family for many generations, but ...
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Mount Usher Gardens (Irish: Gairdíní Mount Usher) [1] located at Ashford, County Wicklow, Ireland, was laid out in 1868. [2] It is spread on twenty acres of land along River Vartry , having more than 5000 plant species.