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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.