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A GARDEN OF WONDER
The Walled Garden Today
The Walled Garden is still a place of wonder today. The garden fell into disrepair for many years, until the
nuns began an ambitious plan to restore it in 1995. After five years of hard work, it was opened to the public
in the year 2000. The Benedictine nuns and the Kylemore staff are very proud of how the gardens look today.
Look Closer
See if you can spot the following areas (use the photographs for comparison): The Head Gardener’s
house, the vegetable gardens, the location of the original 21 glasshouses, the garden stream, and the
main gate. The map will have some differences to the photograph; remember trees that were babies
in the 1800s or had not been planted yet may be shown as full-grown trees on the map.
The vegetable garden is divided The formal flower garden still has This is our Head Gardener cutting
from the formal flower garden by two glasshouses and geometric a herb called fennel in the vegetable
trees and a stream. Here potatoes flower beds. The gardeners plant garden. Planting fennel near the
are being dug for the kitchens. different colour schemes every year. vegetables is a natural way to keep
unwanted creatures like slugs away!
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