Lodge Park
Walled Garden
Straffan
- Co Kildare - Ireland
Tel: (353) (1) 6273155 Answer
phone/Season Office
Tel: (353) (1) 6288412 Special Enquiries
Fax: (353) (1) 6273477
Upcoming Events:
Upcoming Events Will Be Posted Here Shortly!.
Situated
20km West of Dublin. Follow signs to Steam Museum, Straffan. From Kill N7; from
Lucan & Maynooth N4.
The restoration of this eighteenth-century
walled garden adjoining Lodge Park, a Palladian house of 1773, started in 1980.
The old brick-faced walls look much as they did when it was built, and here
fruit, flowers, and vegetables are grown for the house.
The garden is divided into different sections
but the design is dictated by the long, box-edged axis path with regularly
spaced clipped yew trees. It comprises a south-facing shrub border, herbaceous
border, different coloured gardens, vegetable area, and a rosarie which is at
its best in June and July.
The garden has a
large collection of rare and unusual plants and is situated beside the Steam
Museum.
The Walled Garden opens:
·
Between 2.00pm
and 6.00pm.
·
May &
September by arrangement in advance.
·
June/July/August:
Wednesday to Sunday & Bank Holidays 14.00 – 18.00
Garden & Steam Museum
Admission:
Adult
- €7.50
Child/OAP/Student/Group of Twenty - €5.00
Family - €20.00
Horticultural/Technology Student with card - FOC.
Facilities:
Toilets,
Teas, Gift and Garden Shop, Wheelchair Access, Plants for Sale.
Pre-booked groups are welcome for morning
coffee, lunch or tea in Steaming Kettle Tea House.
For Further
Information Contact:
Mrs
S Guinness,
Lodge Park Walled Garden,
Straffan,
Co. Kildare
Telephone (353) 1 6273155/6288412
Fax (353) 1 6273477
e-Mail: garden@steam-museum.ie
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