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Garden Name: Primrose Hill
Last Modified: 27/01/2011
Garden ID: 0175

pic: 0175x_primrose.jpg

Owner: Mrs Cicely & Mr Robin Hall
Address:
Lucan
Co Dublin

Postcode: 
County: Republic of Ireland

tel: 00353 (1) 628 0373
fax: 
website: www.dublingardens.com/primrose_hill.html
email: dgg {at} oceanfree.net

Features: 
One of the largest plantsman's gardens in Ireland. It has been built up over the last 40 years and surrounds a period house.

English Heritage Grade:


Opening Times:
1st Feb - 1st Mar; daily; 2pm - 5pm and 1st June - 31st July; Daily; 2pm - 6pm

Best Times of Year to Visit: 
Feb
1st June - 31st July

To see: 
snowdrops
shrubs and herbaceous borders

National Collection: 


National Garden Scheme days: No
Comments: 

Parties / Coaches: No 
Comments: 

Viewing by Appointment: Yes
Comments: Groups by appointment, casual visitors outside normal opening dates/times, please telephone beforehand. 

House Open for Viewing: No
Comments: 

Admission Prices:
Adult €6; Child €2.50; Groups €4 per person

Parking: Yes
Lavatories: Yes
Disabled Access: No
Shop: No
Plants for Sale: Yes
Lunches: No
Teas: No
Refreshments: No
Picnics: Yes
Dogs allowed: No
Only on Lead: No
Events: No

Other Facilities:
Guided tours available.


Designer: The Halls
Description of Garden:
A true plantsman's garden of about 5ha nurtured since 1950 by the owners, Cicely and Robin Hall, this garden has a reputation for being one of the finest of its type with one of its best collections of plants In Ireland, excluding trees and shrubs. It is reached through a beech avenue with a small but growing arboretum on one side and has an excellent collection of snowdrops, including its own variety, so consequently is best visited in February. In mid-summer, the visitor is rewarded again with luxuriant herbaceous borders. Irises, lilies and lobelias feature strongly.


History: 
Primrose Hill house is a regency villa attributed to the architect, James Gandon. Eamon de Valera and his political constitution adviser, Dr. Irwin were frequent visitors to the house in the 1920s and 1930s. The house and grounds were part of the Lucan House Demesne. Four generations of gardeners in the same family have tended and developed the garden at Primrose Hill with some plants there being in the family for over 100 years.

Local Inns: 
O'Neills, Courtney, and others at Lucan

Accomodation: 
Finnstown Spa, and others at Lucan

Restaurants: 


Village/Town/Sightseeing: 
Within walking distance of Village