National Botanic Gardens on the banks of the Tolka River near the Glasnevin cemetery established in 1795 by the Royal Dublin Society, Restoration work over the past few decades has enhanced the natural beauty of the gardens and made them a premier national attraction. The gardens display a total of over 20,000 varieties of plants and include a vegetable garden and a rose garden. Particularly striking are the 400 ft long greenhouses, known as the Curvilinear Range and created by Dublin ironmaster Richard Turner between 1840 and 1869. The Great Palm House features a huge doe and contains orchids, tropical water plants, palm trees and succulents.
Victoria house was built in 854 specifically for the giant
Amazon Water Lily, wondrous new specie at that time. The original garden were
planned Dr. Walter Wade, The first director, and modified over the years by his
many successors. The gardens became a centre for Irish horticulture, developing
new varieties of plants and distributing them to gardeners. Other achievements include
cultivating orchids from seed to flower for the first time. Some of the most
popular exhibits include the Australian Tree Fren brought here from Trinity
College in 1969 that is rumored to be 400 years old, The Last Rose of Summer
grown from a cutting taken from Jenkinstown House, Co. Kilkenny.
The
traditional tale says that it is the rose that insipired the fomous bllad
written by Thomas Moore, the double line of yew trees known as Addison’s Wlk,
surviving from the early days of the gardens and planted in memory of the
stateman and writer Joseph Addison. Aside from the greenhouses, and the grounds
include an arboretum of various specimen
trees, annual displays and herbaceous borders, a pond and a barren area that creates the beauty of the
plants the northwestern Country Clare. Visitor
conveniences are available in the form of a restaurant and audiovisual theater.
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