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Heywood Gardens

  3.0/5 (1 ratings)

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A walled garden by Edwin Lutyens and Gertrude Jekyll, completed in 1912. There is an elliptical garden with a central oval pool which you can see on the satellite image if you zoom in on the location map below.
Address - Ballinakill, County Laois, Ireland
Opening times - All year. Daily. Opens 8:30am.
Admission - Free
Website - Visit the Heywood Gardens website

Designers and Influences

This garden has been designed and influenced by Gertrude Jekyll, Edwin Lutyens

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  • 3 months ago Anonymous said

    This interesting historic garden has suffered in the past years in a lack of horticulture, the planting is not very interesting but the basic structure is still in existance. Unfortunately the house was demolished a number years ago and replaced with a particularly ugly school building, therefore on arrival be prepared for a big let down. However, the bones of a great garden still exist and the architecture of Edwin Lutyens remains in all its glory, along with the Fountain which Lutyens and Poe fell out over. It is worth a visit if only to compare and contrast with Ballintubbert garden a few miles away where, in the past few years, they have constructed a garden much more in keeping with Lutyens original intentions. Visiting both Heywoood and Ballintubbert makes for a lovely day out and an educational one too.

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