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Gardens of Ireland with Ubc Alumnus Gary Lewis | June 24 – July 3, 2022 Open to alumni UBC and friends GARDENS OF IRELAND WITH UBC ALUMNUS GARY LEWIS | JUNE 24 – JULY 3, 2022 Join me for a superlative tour of the Emerald Isle to explore the best gardens Ireland has to offer. We’ll visit large, historical estates and important botanical gardens as well as intimate and experimental private gardens with all the personality of their colourful owners. You’ll have the opportunity to meet and be toured by head gardeners and garden personalities. You’ll discover a great diversity of temperate and subtropical plants and a variety of gardening styles from historical to modern. You’ll also take in beautiful cities, quaint towns, and the gorgeous Irish countryside and experience a little of the local culture along the way. – Gary Lewis STUDY LEADER UBC alumnus Gary Lewis is the owner of Phoenix Perennials, an award-winning, cutting edge, retail and mail order nursery in Vancouver, and an expert on perennials and horticulture. He holds two degrees from UBC in Conservation Biology and Plant Ecology. He is one of Canada’s most knowledgeable plant experts with a deep and special interest in rare and unusual herbaceous perennials. In addition to his work as a busy nurseryman, Gary is also a popular garden lecturer. In 2013 Gary was selected as “Communicator of the Year” by the BC Landscape and Nursery Association and in 2014 as one of Canada’s Top 10 horticultural professionals under 40 by Greenhouse Canada magazine. He is the author of the forthcoming book The Timber Press Encyclopedia of Ground Covers due out in spring 2022. Gary has led previous trips with alumni UBC to South Africa, New Zealand, and Australia. TRAVEL ARRANGEMENTS BY: Alumni Expeditions WORLDWIDEQUEST.COM/ALUMNIUBC | TOLL-FREE 1-800-387-1483 / 416-633-5666 | [email protected] | 491 KING ST. E. TORONTO, ON M5A 1L9 Garnish Island WHY TRAVEL WITH THE ALUMNI UBC TRAVEL CLUB? • Visit Jimi Blake’s Hunting Brook Gardens • Visit with horticultural author Seamus O’Brien at Kilmacurragh Belfast Botanic Gardens • Tour Altamont Gardens with Head Gardener Paul Cutler • Explore the renowned gardens of Garnish Island Dublin IRELAND • Enjoy outstanding countryside accommodation Kenmare Ardmore WORLDWIDEQUEST.COM/ALUMNIUBC | TOLL-FREE 1-800-387-1483 / 416-633-5666 | [email protected] | 491 KING ST. E. TORONTO, ON M5A 1L9 DETAILED ITINERARY Kilmacurragh Botanic Gardens Friday, June 24: Meet in Dublin Arrive in Dublin and make independent arrangements to reach our city centre hotel. Meet Gary, our Irish host Marianne Gorman, and participants for a briefing this afternoon followed by dinner together. Overnight: Buswell’s Hotel, Dublin Meals: Dinner Saturday, June 25: Dublin Get a good look at historic Dublin today. Stroll the lovely, well-preserved Georgian streets, visit the magnificent state apartments of Dublin Castle, amble through the grounds of the 16th century Trinity College to the Old Library to view the breathtaking illuminated Book of Kells manuscript, and admire the spectacular flying buttresses of Christchurch Cathedral. Monday, June 27: Mount Usher and Kilmacurragh After a satisfying pub lunch, head to the National Botanic Today we visit Mount Usher Gardens, a fine example of Gardens. Meet director Matthew Jebb and tour the exquisitely a ‘Robinsonian’ style garden combining a distinguished restored historic glasshouses and the important collections collection of trees and shrubs with informal planting of plant species and cultivars from around the world. schemes. Enjoy lunch at nearby Hunter’s Hotel, Ireland’s Overnight: Buswell’s Hotel, Dublin oldest coaching inn with picturesque gardens along the banks Meals: Breakfast, Lunch of the River Vartry. Then on to Kilmacurragh Botanic Gardens, developed extensively during the 19th century, a period of great botanical and geographical explorations. Here enjoy an extensive visit with Seamus O’Brien, who recently published a major work of horticultural literature, retracing the 19th century celebrated botanist Joseph Dalton Hooker’s steps through the natural wonders of the Himalayas. Overnight: Buswell’s Hotel, Dublin Meals: Breakfast, Lunch Tuesday, June 28: Killruddery House and Powerscourt We start with a visit to Killruddery House and gardens, home to the Earls of Meath. The gardens were designed in the 17th century making them the oldest intact gardens in Ireland. Altamont Gardens The 800-acre estate is a sustainable, bio-diverse farm that includes world-renowned gardens, a flowering woodland, high-hedged pathways, and a Walled Garden. Continue to Sunday, June 26: Gardens of County Wicklow Powerscourt, ranked by National Geographic as number 3 Hunting Brook in the foothills of the lofty Wicklow mountains in its Top Ten Gardens of the World. Marvel at the sublime is one of Ireland’s largest private collections of plants with many blend of formal gardens, sweeping terraces, secret hollows, examples of the fiercely colourful and theatrically beautiful, and rambling walks. large-scale planting combinations for which the noted Irish Overnight: Buswell’s Hotel, Dublin horticulturist Jimi Blake has become so well known. After Meals: Breakfast, Dinner visiting here, continue on to June Blake’s garden (sister to Jimi) to explore her exciting, experimental, and contemporary garden with areas of exciting, bold herbaceous planting and Killruddery House a shade garden of ferns, grasses, bamboos and other choice woodland plants punctuated by enormous granite boulders. At Russborough we’ll tour the magnificent house and the 18th century walled garden currently being restored by volunteers from the Royal Horticultural Society of Ireland. On our way back to Dublin, visit Helen Dillon’s garden by the sea in Monkstown, where Ireland’s ‘Queen of Gardening’ has set out to create a new garden of extravagant beauty. Overnight: Buswell’s Hotel, Dublin Meals: Breakfast, Dinner WORLDWIDEQUEST.COM/ALUMNIUBC | TOLL-FREE 1-800-387-1483 / 416-633-5666 | [email protected] | 491 KING ST. E. TORONTO, ON M5A 1L9 Wednesday, June 29: Waterford Head out of Dublin this morning en route to Waterford. Our first stop is at Coolcarrigan Gardens with its wonderful arboretum. This is the home of Robert Wilson Wright who has travelled extensively with Seamus O’Brien on plant hunting expeditions. Then at Burtown House we’ll tour their various gardens including herbaceous and shrub borders, a rock garden, and an old orchard before enjoying lunch at the Green Burtown House Barn with produce from their walled kitchen garden. Our final visit will be to Altamont Gardens, where the head gardener Paul Cutler will tour us through the gardens, filled with both formal, Saturday, July 2: Garnish Island informal, and exotic elements and unique plant collections. In the sheltered harbour of Bantry Bay, take the ferry from Overnight: Cliff House Hotel, Ardmore Glengarriff to Garnish Island, a renowned 15 hectare garden Meals: Breakfast, Lunch which flourishes in the mild, humid micro-climate. Structures include a clock tower, Grecian Temple, Martello Tower, and an Thursday, June 30: Gardens of County Waterford Italian Temple. Although noted for the “Italian” gardens, there Start the day at Mount Congreve, former home of Ambrose is a strong Japanese influence running throughout the design. Congreve, whose head gardener Michael White will tour us Returning to Kenmare, visit Bantry House to see the fine around. These gardens were inspired by Exbury Gardens, home garden with seven terraces and Italianate gardens and Derreen of Sir Lionel Rothschild, and many of the plants came from there. Gardens to stroll its network of winding paths through the Then into the village of Cappoquin for lunch with the Jamesons 150-year-old woodland garden with sub-tropical plants from (direct descendants of the founder of the whiskey dynasty around the world and incomparable views of the sea Arthur Jameson) at Tourin House. Explore the lovely gardens and mountains. and walled and tree lined avenues on the banks of the Overnight: Sheen Falls Hotel, Kenmare Blackwater River and admire the beautiful, working Irish red Meals: Breakfast, Lunch setters! At Lismore Castle, owned by the Duke of Devonshire, visit the 16th century walled garden filled with ornamental Sunday, July 3: Dublin borders and food gardens and the 19th century informal lower Today we return to Dublin, stopping in at Blarney Castle garden of meandering paths and ancient yew tree avenues, to explore the highlights of over 60 acres of parklands with all contained within the castle walls. diverse gardens, avenues, and arboretums including the Overnight: Cliff House Hotel, Ardmore Poison Garden filled with poisonous plants from around the Meals: Breakfast, Lunch world. Enjoy time at leisure this afternoon in Dublin before our celebratory dinner this evening. Friday, July 1: Kenmare Overnight: Buswell’s Hotel, Dublin We leave our hotel today and drive to Kenmare, a thriving Meals: Breakfast, Dinner market town and fishing port. En route, visit the splendid vegetable and walled gardens of the Ballymaloe Cookery School Monday, July 4: Depart Dublin laid out by Darina Allen. We continue on to Anne’s Grove, an The main tour concludes after breakfasting this morning. 18th century house with a largely early 20th century garden Participants make independent arrangements for departure including a woodland garden with an interesting collection of or carry on with the optional extension to Belfast. rhododendrons, a river garden, a walled garden, a wildflower Meals: Breakfast meadow, and a lily pond. This
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