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True to the Spirit of Home True to the spirit of home Glin Castle, Co Limerick Numerous generations of one family have added to the beauty of Glin Castle and its gardens. Catherine Fitzgerald, its latest chatelaine, describes its story and her own plans for its future Photographs by Andrea Jones Invitation to conversation: a rustic gazebo terminates one of the meandering paths Her father, the 4th Earl of Dunraven, travelled widely, collected plants and made two famous gardens in Co Kerry: Garinish Island, near Sneem, and Derrynane. The Chilean plants at Glin would have been avail- able since the 1860s, when they were first introduced to Veitch’s nursery in Exeter by the famous planthunter William Lobb. I like to think of Rachael’s plant-mad father advising his newly married daughter on what would do well in the mild, wet conditions at Glin. Rachael planted the wild, meadowy hill that lies at the heart of the garden with bulbs sent by her friends the Dorrien-Smiths of Tresco Abbey in the Isles of Scilly. Every March, it lights up with the pale yellow of the wild native daffodil, the Lent lily (Narcissus pseudonarcissus Lobularis). With its deli- cate, lemon-coloured petals and darker- golden trumpet, grey-greenish leaves and smaller, daintier habit, it’s much more poetic than so many of its showier relations. The story moves on to my grandmother, Veronica, a painter and horticulturist. Widowed relatively young, she later married a Canadian and created the Milner Garden, a famous garden on Vancouver Island at Previous pages: Glin Castle, framed by cedar and pine, with the River Shannon beyond. Above: The tranquil beauty of a camellia glade architecture and design. He laid out the the nearby Atlantic shores, keeps the worst Qualicum, which was gifted to Vancouver bones of the garden as we know it—build- of the frosts at bay and, combined with the Island University (formerly Malaspina HE north front of Glin Castle, Co Glin Castle was built as a grand, neo- in Gaelic as the Knight of the Women, ing the nearby walled kitchen garden and heavy rainfall of some 6ft a year, fosters University-College). At Glin, she laid out Limerick, was built on the shores Classical house during a golden moment for added the Gothic crenellations, turrets and the little Gothic hermitage with brick barrel a wide range of exotic trees and shrubs. formal lawns with a central gravel pathway of the broad Shannon estuary in architecture and culture in Ireland, by my pepper-pot lodges with arrow loops that vault and pointed, arched windows. This was The garden tells the tale of a succession running up to a circular sundial overlooked the 1780s. It looks out over a stretch ancestor the 25th Knight of Glin, John Bate- ornament the outskirts of the demesne. He lost for many years under a bank of bram- of lively, artistic women, each of whom by a perfectly placed, vase-shaped Persian Tof green fields, dotted with grazing black- man Fitzgerald. He appears in a dashing was proud of his ancient lineage and roman- bles and ferns, before being dug out of the added a layer of ideas and plantings of their ironwood (Parrotia persica). This wonder- and-white cows and flocks of visiting long- Volunteer uniform of scarlet and gold, leaning tic history—the original Glin Castle held hillside by my parents in the 1970s. own. The 1890s saw the arrival of Rachael ful tree from the slopes of the Elburz moun- beaked curlews and crested peewits, to the on a cannon, in his portrait over the hall fire- out valiantly against the English Crown The main garden lies behind the house Wyndham-Quin, my great-grandmother, tains in northern Iran is always early to sweep of water beyond. On stormy days, gales place. However, he soon ran out of money when it was besieged in 1601 by Elizabethan and offers a complete contrast to the some- from nearby Adare Manor. She planted the come into its bright-emerald mantle of leaves sweep in and batter the sea wall and the (a regular occurrence with the Fitzgeralds forces sailing up the Shannon. It still what bleak north front. Here, protected by now huge specimens of Drimys winteri and the first to show a touch of pink in stark, bow-fronted façade, but, in clear, calm of Glin) and the top floor was never finished. stands: a shattered, ivy-clad ruin beside the the tall, sheltering walls of the house, lies and Crinodendron hookerianum from August—an early hint of summer’s end. weather, the water is as smooth as glass Fortunes revived and, in the 1820s, his River Corbry in the village of Glin. a softer world, in which plants from Chile and Chile, the ever-spreading stands of archi- Veronica divided the formal parterre around and the patchwork of fields in neighbouring son, John Fraunceis Fitzgerald, a colourful John Fraunceis learnt Gaelic, patronised China flourish within the curtilage of trees tectural Gunnera and the giant Pinus the house, with its yew topiary hedge and Co Clare is lit up in every tiny detail. character with a fiery temper, known locally poets and musicians and was interested in and hedges. The Gulf Stream, which washes radiata from Monterey in California. startlingly green lawns, from the wilder ➢ 86 Country Life, May 23, 2018 www.countrylife.co.uk www.countrylife.co.uk Country Life, May 23, 2018 87 The Gothic hermitage, a romantic structure set amid Nature— wild and mysterious meadowy hill beyond with an elegant, low, a circle of standing stones—an allusion to scalloped wall. A little stream bordered in the many stone circles in Limerick and Clare fuchsia rushes under the twisted arms of the —which leads to the Gothic hermitage. ancient primeval Killarney oaks, all covered Together, my parents found and restored with moss and polypody ferns. This contrast the old paths in the defunct walled garden of smooth and rough, Nature tamed and and, with the help of the wonderful Tom cultivated beside the wild and mysterious, Wall, their gardener, planted them with is what makes the composition so effective. espaliered apples and pears, flower borders, herbs and vegetables for the house, such as artichokes, seakale, asparagus and lovage. The garden tells the Tom built rustic wooden temples into the walls to designs sketched by my father on tale of a succession of the back of an envelope. ‘lively, artistic women, Today, my mission is to keep this thread going so that the Glin garden can continue each of whom added to be enjoyed. I’m adding to the collection of ornamental trees and shrubs—the Cornus ideas of their own capitata and Myrtus apiculata need no encouragement and seed themselves every- In the 1970s, my mother breathed new life where, but I have been introducing new into the place, continuing the line of topiary species that chime with what is already down from the sundial hedge to the’ giant, here. There are more euchryphias, which pointed, standard bay trees in front of the helpfully flower in August when the garden house. This has the effect of drawing the begins to feel heavy and sleepy and needs eye upwards and onwards. She caught the a lift. The tall Chilean evergreen Berberis bulb-planting bug and, each year, planted valdiviana, which I first saw at Mount more: cyclamen corms beneath the Pinus Usher, in Co Wicklow, sparkles in spring radiata, white crocus beneath the bare with its flamboyant yellow flowers like scarlet branches of Acer senkaki and mini bunches of golden grapes, and there are narcissi, fritillaries, trilliums, scillas and lots of new magnolias planted in drifts on dog’s-tooth violets beneath the giant oak at the lawn, from the vigorous pale-yellow- Blaumeise, with its electric blue lacecaps, Above: The glory of magnolia time. Right: Catherine Fitzgerald with a canine helper the top of the hill. She added to Veronica’s flowered Elizabeth to my favourite, Mag- always draws gasps from visitors and camellias, which had been taken as cuttings nolia x loebneri Leonard Messel. H. paniculata Limelight and Vanilla Fraise its fronds and will tough it out against the further exotic touches. I’m planning to get from neigbouring Tarbert House, with There are now Chilean flame trees are in their prime in September and October skunk cabbage and New Zealand flax. hold of a Schefflera taiwaniana, which Camellia Cornish Snow and C. Freedom (Embothrium coccineum), Stewartias for when the maples are turning. Trachystemon orientalis is a fantastic, I think would do well after seeing it flourish- Bell. Handkerchief trees were brought by their bark and more Japanese maples with The garden has sticky clay soil and limi- almost evergreen ground cover. It was brought ing at Tregrehan in Cornwall. Lord Rosse from a plant-hunting expedition coloured foliage to brighten up the dark ted maintenance, so I encourage ground- over by Seamus Galvin, the head gardener We spend all our holidays at Glin, when to China and magnolias and euchryphias corners. Hydrangeas are a passion—I par- covering thugs that will fight their way to at Garinish, the island paradise garden my children make dens in the rhododendron came from Patrick Forde from his nursery ticularly love the dusty-violet Hydrangea survival—ferns such as Matteuccia struthi- made by Lord Dunraven, with the unusual bushes as we did and are set to work clearing at Seaforde in Co Down. aspera Villosa and H. macrophylla Mme. opteris spread like wildfire and are terrific little spreader, dawn poppy Eomecon brambles by the stream and the sticks left My father, the 29th Knight of Glin, who Emilie Mouilliere, with its lavish white value, providing wonderful contrast with chionantha.
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