Parks & Gardens in Donegal

Shy By Nature Farm is a certified organic market garden in Inver, set on a hillside overlooking Donegal Bay and the Bluestack Mountains. Rooted in community, we grow seasonal vegetables in harmony with nature using regenerative methods, supplying organic veg boxes across Donegal and working with local restaurants, cafés and shops. Shy By Nature is delighted to be joining the Donegal Garden Trai…

Oakfield Park is a 100 acre garden, that includes an award winning walled garden, ponds, a lakeside Nymphaeum, a hedge maze and many garden sculptures. Our crowning glory is a 4.5km narrow guage railway with diesel and steam trains operating daily rounds of the woodlands, flower meadows, willow tunnels and lakeside castle. There is so much to see and do, rambling the woodland walks, refreshments s…

This is Donegal’s tropical garden, inspirational and boldly experimental! This garden also specialises in plants tolerant of seaside conditions. ‘Cluain na dTor’ meaning “meadow of the shrubs” - an apt place-name - shrubs as shelter and as ornamentals populate this garden with surrounding natural wildflower meadows. Twenty years in the making, a wonderfully eclectic mix of individual specimens ar…

Salthill is well illustrated in “The Irish Garden” (2015) by Jane Powers with photographs by Jonathon Hession. She aptly describes the space “The 0.5 hectare enclosure has that delightful feeling of privacy and mystery that is particular to old walled gardens”. So, come and witness the “great gatherings of herbaceous plants amid mature shrubs and noteworthy trees”. Admission: €5 Adults, €2 …

The country estate garden of Glenalla is a hidden world surrounded by native woods and moorland. Established in the late 18th century with extensive landscaping by the Franklin family since 1913. Beyond the house and walled kitchen garden are the formal elements of the rockery, rose beds, arbour and stone edged lily pond. There are collections of rhododendrons together with summer and autumn flow…