The Dillon Garden

Helen Dillon is Ireland's foremost plants woman, garden television star, writer and lecturer. With her husband Val, she has created a garden that is considered to be one of the gems of the horticultural world. Her love and affection for plants, flowers and nature can be seen by making a visit to her beautiful garden, The Dillon Garden.

This widely and highly praised garden is a mix of astounding design and perfectly grown plants - many of them rare and unique. Everywhere in the garden are contrasts of colour and texture. The view of the garden from the windows of the elegant drawing room is in the lexicon of most photographed scenes in contemporary gardening.

A canal set in Irish limestone, bordered on each side by superb borders - one mainly in red and the other in shades of dreamy blue, is a dominant feature in the garden. Behind the borders pathways lead into garden rooms. A recent addition is a gravel garden planted mainly with exotically-leaved members of the Araliaceae family.

Change is a feature of this magnificent garden. This spring has seen the transformation of the front garden from a sophisticated town garden to a birch-bordered glade with exciting new planting.

Facilities:

• Plants for sale.


• Guided tours by appointment.

Notices

• Sorry no children (except by prior arrangement)


• No pets

Rates (tickets): €5.00.

Timings:

March, July & August - Daily, 14.00 to 18.00

April, May, June & September - Sundays only, 14.00 to 18.00

Groups any time by appointment