{"id":13533,"date":"2015-08-18T14:18:54","date_gmt":"2015-08-18T13:18:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greensideup.ie\/?p=13533"},"modified":"2016-10-31T13:01:31","modified_gmt":"2016-10-31T13:01:31","slug":"two-beautiful-garden-ideas-in-county-carlow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greensideup.ie\/two-beautiful-garden-ideas-in-county-carlow\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Beautiful Garden Ideas in County Carlow"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Garden Inspiration<\/span><\/h2>\n

Country house gardens are excellent sources of inspiration. If you spot a flower or shrub that you don’t know the name of, or see a planting combination that you’d like to replicate, just take a photo and show it to a horticulturist at a garden centre and they’ll point you in the direction of the plant. Many gardens such as Altamont in County Carlow<\/a> have labelled their plants and this one in particular has its own garden centre on site too, selling plants the gardeners have grown from seed or cuttings found in the garden.<\/span><\/p>\n

Having just created a new flower border in own garden where I can’t wait to get cracking on the planting design, I’ll be heading back to some of Carlow’s gardens for some more gardening inspiration throughout the seasons. If you’re in the area here’s two of several country house gardens that can be found on the Carlow Garden Trail<\/a>, all of which are worth spending a few hours in.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Firstly, Newtownbarry House and Gardens<\/strong> that’s within walking distance of Bunclody village centre on the Wexford\/Carlow border, handy if you’re staying in one of the hotels or bed and breakfasts close by. Secondly Borris House and Gardens<\/strong>, with its gate house almost directly opposite the award-winning Step House Hotel in Borris village.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Newtownbarry House and Gardens<\/span><\/h2>\n

In years gone by owners of the big houses in Ireland would have swapped trees and plants following their tours of Europe and beyond. Newtownbarry House and Gardens is a good example of this as it has a large collection of trees that border the lawns of the old house. However, what Newtownbarry has that many others don’t is a sunken garden that Seamus O’Brien, curator of the National Botanic Gardens, described at the recent Carlow Garden Festival as \u201cthe best in Ireland\u201d<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n