Garden Tour
Unfortunately, there are no formal tours planned for the foreseeable future.
Some interesting plants at thirteen locations in the garden are listed below.
| No. |
Location |
Some notable plants |
| 1 |
Baron’s Brae |
Erica versicolor, E. pageana (Yellow
South African heather), Embothrium coccineum (Chilean fire bush),
Podocarpus salignus, Nerium oleander, Elegia capensis, Furcraea longaeva |
| 2 |
Earlscliffe Drive 1 |
Eucalyptus spp., Erica canaliculata
(South African tree heather) Pelargonium papilionaceum |
| 3 |
Earlscliffe Drive 2 |
Agave ferox, Puya spp., Fasicularia
bicolor, Metrosideros robusta, Vireya rhododendron, Brugmansia
sanguinea, Betula nigra |
| 4 |
Earlscliffe House |
Sciadopitys verticillata, Podocarpus
nivalis, Paulownia tomentosa, Olearia zenorensis |
| 5 |
Route to cliff path |
Strobilanthes penstemonioides, Aloysia
citridora as small tree. View to Baily Light- house and across Dublin
Bay, Cupressus cashmeriana, Ischyrolepis subverticiallata |
| 6 |
Earlscliffe lawn |
Naturalised Betula verrucosa (climatic
zone 1)/Echium pininana (climatic zone 9) woodland. This particular
mixed woodland of two species from very different climatic zones is unusual
if not unique in the world. Olearia paniculata, O. macrodonta, Euphorbia
mellifera, Betula nigra |
| 7 |
Eastern hillside |
Taiwania cryptomerioides, Torreya nucifera,
Lomatia ferruginea, Pittosporum bicolor, Itoa orientalis, |
| 8 |
Rose garden |
Camellia ‘Inspiration’, Cordyline
baueri, Phoenix canariensis, Cephalotaxus harringtoniana, Cotoneaster
linearifolius, Doryophora sassifras, Metapanax davidii |
| 9 |
Lower Garden |
Drimys winteri, Juniperus recurva var. coxii,
Dacrydium cupressinum, Corokia buddleoides, Araucaria bidwillii, Podocarpus
totara, Grevillia robusta |
| 10 |
Stone folly |
Dicksonia antarctica & other
ferns, Rhododendron, Aloysia citriodora. Griselinia litoralis
‘Variegata’, Sonchus arboreus |
| 11 |
Sundial lawn |
Daphniphyllum macropodum, Lomatia
ferruginea, Correa backhousiana, Photinia glomerata |
| 12 |
Tennis Court lawn |
Agave americana, Aeonium spp, Juania
australis, Protea cynaroides, P. lacticolor, Kalopanax picta, Pittosporum
ralphii, P. eugenioides, Dodonaea viscosa ‘Purpurea’, Psoralea
pinnata |
| 13 |
Baron’s Brae lawn |
Banksia spinulosa ‘Collina’,
Callitris rhomboidea, , Musa,basjo, Telopia speciossima, Scheflera digitata,
Acacia pravissima |
Plant Collections
For more details of the plants that grow at Earlscliffe, click
here.
This page was last updated on
19-Jul-2017 .
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