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The above photo shows the East Section of the garden towards the North East wall. Check our Facebook page "Colclough Walled Garden" for more photos.

Colclough Walled Garden Plants

Trees and plants still growing in the garden are a very old Pear tree (photographed above, identified as "Winter Nevis" in 1996 by the Great Gardens of Ireland restoration programme), an Apple Tree, a Plum tree, Winter Aconite (Petasites fragans), Pheasant Berry (Leycesteria formosa). Letters written by Caesar Colclough in the 1830`s mention Carnations, Geraniums and Daphne (small leaved) and Caesar Colclough, writing in 1821 to a scientific journal describes,

"a singular species of strawberry lately noticed in the public papers, found in Scotland, and which like the famous Glastonbury Thorn, blooms in winter, and has flourished upwards of 50 years in the garden of Tintern Abbey".

Caesar`s agent JW Goff, who lived in Tintern Abbey during the 1830`s, surviving receipts describe the purchase of a cherry tree and 12 Gooseberries from Rich Fennessy Nursery in Johns Hill, Waterford and also the purchase of 2 Apricot trees and an Italian Nectarine and a peach tree (Belle Chevreuse) in Miller and Sweet nursery in White ladies road, Clifton, Bristol in 1832.

Another brick in the wall or a volunteer.

Site Clearance work has been completed, path structure has been reveled. Now a battle with weeds must commence, that gardeners know we will never win, but also we must not lose it. Watch out briars, nettles, bindweed, the volunteers are coming.

The yellow brick road

The road to garden was cleaned, this week, of mud down to the orignal stone base and a new turnabout in front of the garden was created. The road was resurfaced with stone from the original Colclough Quarry and now all we need is millions of leaves to fall on it and no one will ever know...........

One step after the other....

"One step after the other, but watch where your going"

Tree felling has ceased in the Colclough Walled Garden, Step 1 has been completed thanks to sterling work by Envile Forestry Ltd supported by Coillte Teoranta. Step 2, regeneration of access road and step 3, branch chipping and step 4, site clearance will now commence in the coming days.

Progress

"One step after the other".

Steady progress being made in step 1 (Tree Felling) of the restoration. The weather has made difficult conditions even harder but a few days of dry weather and will allow the contractor to finish his work.

Timberrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr...

Lets get that timber out safely and make this small 3 acre section of a hundred acre forest, a garden again. Great work by all to get this far but most of the credit must go to Coillte Teoranta for having the faith in us to restore the Colclough Walled Garden.

Envile Forstry Ltd from Borris in Co. Carlow are on site, doing an incredible job under the most difficult of conditions.