BBC Gardeners World Magazine 2026-03-27T09:08:29.000Z https://www.gardenersworld.com/2-for-1-gardens/ireland/feed/atom BBC Gardeners World Magazine <![CDATA[Killruddery House Gardens 2-for-1 Entry]]> https://www.gardenersworld.com/2-for-1-gardens/ireland/killruddery-house-gardens-2-for-1-entry/ 2026-03-27T09:08:29.000Z Still retaining their original 17th-century layout, together with additions from the 18th and 19th century, these formal gardens are on a grand scale, designed for relaxing walks. So stroll along the majestic avenues to formal ponds and canals, past hedges and elegant statues, through woodland and over sweeping lawns. There is also a four-acre walled garden, where vegetables, herbs and fruit are grown, alongside resident hens and pigs.

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Always check the garden’s website or call direct before visiting for up-to-date opening times, other ticket price options, and any one-off restrictions which may apply. Always take your 2-for-1 Gardens card with you. If you’ve booked your tickets under the 2-for-1 Gardens offer, show your card on the day to validate the booking. Please don’t make multiple bookings or share your 2-for-1 Gardens card – card misuse will invalidate your discount claim. You may use the 2 for 1 printed or digital card for admission only once per garden, per day. You cannot use the printed card and digital card at the same venue on the same day.

Using your 2-for-1 card at Killruddery House Gardens

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OFFER: Garden: 2 for 1 €10.50.

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]]> BBC Gardeners World Magazine <![CDATA[Lismore Castle Gardens & Gallery 2-for-1 entry]]> https://www.gardenersworld.com/2-for-1-gardens/ireland/lismore-castle-gardens-gallery-2-for-1-entry/ 2026-03-27T09:07:00.000Z Stroll through these richly planted, historic gardens, arranged over 10 acres within the 17th-century outer defensive walls. The productive and ornamental areas include a wide diversity of beautifully maintained plants and trees, including an ancient yew avenue. There is a contemporary sculpture collection and fine views of the surrounding countryside. The Reilig Garden, with its mix of flowers, fruit, vegetables and herbs, is home to one of Ireland’s oldest Sitka spruce trees.

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Always check the garden’s website or call direct before visiting for up-to-date opening times, other ticket price options, and any one-off restrictions which may apply. Always take your 2-for-1 Gardens card with you. If you’ve booked your tickets under the 2-for-1 Gardens offer, show your card on the day to validate the booking. Please don’t make multiple bookings or share your 2-for-1 Gardens card – card misuse will invalidate your discount claim. You may use the 2 for 1 printed or digital card for admission only once per garden, per day. You cannot use the printed card and digital card at the same venue on the same day.

Using your 2-for-1 card at Lismore Castle Gardens & Gallery

Opening details:

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Entry prices:

OFFER: Garden & gallery: 2 for 1 €11.

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]]> BBC Gardeners World Magazine <![CDATA[Glenarm Castle Walled Garden 2-for-1 Entry]]> https://www.gardenersworld.com/2-for-1-gardens/ireland/glenarm-castle-walled-garden-2-for-1-entry/ 2026-03-27T09:06:58.000Z One of Ireland’s oldest walled gardens, dating from the 18th century, it is still evolving today, with imaginative displays bursting with colour, beautiful water features, a new woodland walk, restored glasshouse, and vegetable, fruit and herb gardens. The grass mount, created 15 years ago, gives panoramic views of the garden, castle, surrounding estate and the sea.

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Always check the garden’s website or call direct before visiting for up-to-date opening times, other ticket price options, and any one-off restrictions which may apply. Always take your 2-for-1 Gardens card with you. If you’ve booked your tickets under the 2-for-1 Gardens offer, show your card on the day to validate the booking. Please don’t make multiple bookings or share your 2-for-1 Gardens card – card misuse will invalidate your discount claim. You may use the 2 for 1 printed or digital card for admission only once per garden, per day. You cannot use the printed card and digital card at the same venue on the same day.

Using your 2-for-1 card at Glenarm Castle Walled Garden

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For opening details, see website.

Entry prices:

OFFER: Walled garden & woodland walk: 2 for 1 £10.

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]]> BBC Gardeners World Magazine <![CDATA[Strokestown Park Walled Gardens 2-for-1 Entry]]> https://www.gardenersworld.com/2-for-1-gardens/ireland/strokestown-park-walled-gardens-2-for-1-entry/ 2026-03-27T09:06:25.000Z Get a unique insight into horticultural practices and garden architecture over the past 270 years in the restored Georgian walled gardens. You can see fruit and vegetables grown using traditional methods, as well as one of Ireland’s longest herbaceous borders. Other features include a fernery, rose garden, pergola and wildflower garden.

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Always check the garden’s website or call direct before visiting for up-to-date opening times, other ticket price options, and any one-off restrictions which may apply. Always take your 2-for-1 Gardens card with you. If you’ve booked your tickets under the 2-for-1 Gardens offer, show your card on the day to validate the booking. Please don’t make multiple bookings or share your 2-for-1 Gardens card – card misuse will invalidate your discount claim. You may use the 2 for 1 printed or digital card for admission only once per garden, per day. You cannot use the printed card and digital card at the same venue on the same day.

Using your 2-for-1 card at Strokestown Park Walled Gardens

Opening details:

Open all year.

Entry prices:

OFFER: House, museum & walled garden: 2 for 1 €19.

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]]> BBC Gardeners World Magazine <![CDATA[Castle Espie Wetland Centre (WWT) 2-for-1 Entry]]> https://www.gardenersworld.com/2-for-1-gardens/ireland/castle-espie-wetland-centre-wwt-2-for-1-entry/ 2026-03-27T09:06:17.000Z With spectacular views across Strangford Lough, this 60-acre wetland reserve offers extensive walks through a range of natural habitats, including woodlands, reed beds and meadows, set around a series of ponds and tidal lagoons. Keep your eyes peeled for the huge diversity of birds and other native wildlife. You can also explore the heritage apple orchard.

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Always check the garden’s website or call direct before visiting for up-to-date opening times, other ticket price options, and any one-off restrictions which may apply. Always take your 2-for-1 Gardens card with you. If you’ve booked your tickets under the 2-for-1 Gardens offer, show your card on the day to validate the booking. Please don’t make multiple bookings or share your 2-for-1 Gardens card – card misuse will invalidate your discount claim. You may use the 2 for 1 printed or digital card for admission only once per garden, per day. You cannot use the printed card and digital card at the same venue on the same day.

Using your 2-for-1 card at Castle Espie Wetland Centre (WWT)

Opening details:

Open all year.

Entry prices:

OFFER: Whole property: 2 for 1 from £10.41 (price subject to change).

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]]> BBC Gardeners World Magazine <![CDATA[Hillsborough Castle & Gardens 2-for-1 Entry]]> https://www.gardenersworld.com/2-for-1-gardens/ireland/hillsborough-castle-gardens-2-for-1-entry/ 2026-03-27T09:05:50.000Z Developed from the 1760s onwards, these historic gardens offer a delightful mix of ornate formal gardens, woodland and wildflower meadows. The large walled garden has been returned to productive use, with vegetables, an apple orchard and 100-year-old trained fruit trees, along with flower borders and a dipping pond. The formal areas continue with a parterre and terrace. Beyond is a yew tree walk, lake and pinetum with towering redwoods.

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Always check the garden’s website or call direct before visiting for up-to-date opening times, other ticket price options, and any one-off restrictions which may apply. Always take your 2-for-1 Gardens card with you. If you’ve booked your tickets under the 2-for-1 Gardens offer, show your card on the day to validate the booking. Please don’t make multiple bookings or share your 2-for-1 Gardens card – card misuse will invalidate your discount claim. You may use the 2 for 1 printed or digital card for admission only once per garden, per day. You cannot use the printed card and digital card at the same venue on the same day.

Using your 2-for-1 card at Hillsborough Castle & Gardens

Opening details:

For opening details, see website.

Entry prices:

OFFER: Garden: 2 for 1 £11

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]]> BBC Gardeners World Magazine <![CDATA[Tullynally Castle Gardens 2-for-1 Entry]]> https://www.gardenersworld.com/2-for-1-gardens/ireland/tullynally-castle-gardens-2-for-1-entry/ 2026-03-27T09:05:27.000Z Explore over 15 acres of restored Regency gardens on a grand scale. Terraced lawns lead to woodland gardens with lakes, waterfalls, fantastic sculptures and follies. Owner Thomas Pakenham, author of Meetings with Remarkable Trees, has added dozens of rare woodland plants, collected as seed during his travels, notably magnolias, maples, primulas and lilies. There are dazzling flower borders in the old walled gardens, as well as a lily pond with Victorian ‘weeping pillar’ water feature.

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Always check the garden’s website or call direct before visiting for up-to-date opening times, other ticket price options, and any one-off restrictions which may apply. Always take your 2-for-1 Gardens card with you. If you’ve booked your tickets under the 2-for-1 Gardens offer, show your card on the day to validate the booking. Please don’t make multiple bookings or share your 2-for-1 Gardens card – card misuse will invalidate your discount claim. You may use the 2 for 1 printed or digital card for admission only once per garden, per day. You cannot use the printed card and digital card at the same venue on the same day.

Using your 2-for-1 card at Tullynally Castle Gardens

Opening details:

For opening details, see website.

Entry prices:

OFFER: Garden: 2 for 1 €9, single reduced to €4.50.

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]]> BBC Gardeners World Magazine <![CDATA[Irish National Stud & Gardens 2-for-1 Entry]]> https://www.gardenersworld.com/2-for-1-gardens/ireland/irish-national-stud-gardens-2-for-1-entry/ 2026-03-27T09:05:02.000Z With tranquil pools, streams, rocks, ferns, maples and cherry blossom, the renowned Japanese gardens are a place for contemplation, meditation and reflection. Meanwhile, in St Fiachra’s garden, rock and water are rulers, celebrating Ireland’s natural beauty of woodland, wetland, waterfalls, lakes and streams.

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Always check the garden’s website or call direct before visiting for up-to-date opening times, other ticket price options, and any one-off restrictions which may apply. Always take your 2-for-1 Gardens card with you. If you’ve booked your tickets under the 2-for-1 Gardens offer, show your card on the day to validate the booking. Please don’t make multiple bookings or share your 2-for-1 Gardens card – card misuse will invalidate your discount claim. You may use the 2 for 1 printed or digital card for admission only once per garden, per day. You cannot use the printed card and digital card at the same venue on the same day.

Using your 2-for-1 card at Irish National Stud & Gardens

Opening details:

For opening details, see website.

Entry prices:

OFFER: Garden: 2 for 1 €22

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]]> BBC Gardeners World Magazine <![CDATA[Caher Bridge Garden 2-for-1 Entry]]> https://www.gardenersworld.com/2-for-1-gardens/ireland/caher-bridge-garden-2-for-1-entry/ 2026-03-27T09:02:53.000Z Skilfully designed to blend with and incorporate the surrounding landscape, this lush oasis has been lovingly created from scratch over the past 20 years. Its diverse bounty of native and unusual plants are set around the ponds, riverside, water features and creative stonework, with winding paths and many notable plant collections, including hostas, daylilies, ferns and daffodils.

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Always check the garden’s website or call direct before visiting for up-to-date opening times, other ticket price options, and any one-off restrictions which may apply. Always take your 2-for-1 Gardens card with you. If you’ve booked your tickets under the 2-for-1 Gardens offer, show your card on the day to validate the booking. Please don’t make multiple bookings or share your 2-for-1 Gardens card – card misuse will invalidate your discount claim. You may use the 2 for 1 printed or digital card for admission only once per garden, per day. You cannot use the printed card and digital card at the same venue on the same day.

Using your 2-for-1 card at Caher Bridge Garden

Opening details:

For opening details, see website.

Entry prices:

OFFER: Garden: 2 for 1 €8, single reduced to €4.

Facilities:

]]> BBC Gardeners World Magazine <![CDATA[Castle Ward 2-for-1 Entry]]> https://www.gardenersworld.com/2-for-1-gardens/ireland/castle-ward-2-for-1-entry/ 2026-03-27T09:02:39.000Z The recently restored four-tier sunken garden has been returned to its Victorian heyday, displaying a kaleidoscope of colours and plants.
The historically important Temple Water area is also being restored, reinstating its original lakeside walk and viewing points. There are woodland and shoreline trails to explore, and you can visit the Georgian farmyard, which featured in Game of Thrones.

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Always check the garden’s website or call direct before visiting for up-to-date opening times, other ticket price options, and any one-off restrictions which may apply. Always take your 2-for-1 Gardens card with you. If you’ve booked your tickets under the 2-for-1 Gardens offer, show your card on the day to validate the booking. Please don’t make multiple bookings or share your 2-for-1 Gardens card – card misuse will invalidate your discount claim. You may use the 2 for 1 printed or digital card for admission only once per garden, per day. You cannot use the printed card and digital card at the same venue on the same day.

Using your 2-for-1 card at Castle Ward

Opening details:

Open all year.

Entry prices:

OFFER: House & garden: 2 for 1 £15, single reduced to £7.50. Garden (when house closed): 2 for 1 £12, single reduced to £6

Facilities:

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