Visit a botanic garden in Ireland to find reference material
​Gardens are listed below by location - in Dublin and the rest of Ireland
DUBLIN
  • National Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin
    The National Botanic Gardens is located on a 19.5 hectare site located 3km east of the centre of Dublin. It is a premier scientific institution. The gardens also contain the National Herbarium and several historic wrought iron glasshouses.
  • Trinity College Botanic Garden
    Trinity College initiated a physic garden on the main College campus in 1687 to provide plant material to support the teaching of medicine. It now supports botanical teaching and research. The gardens also houses the Irish Rare and Threatened Plant Genebank.
  • Dublin Garden Group | Garden Tours in Dublin, Ireland
    The Dublin Garden Group (DGG) comprises Ireland's most distinguished private gardens in the greater Dublin area
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Wrought Iron Palm House, Irish National Botanic Garden, Glasnevin. Photo: By Cqui (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons
An Irish Florilegium
by Wendy Walsh

Wendy Walsh lived in Ireland for over 50 years. During that time she was awarded all sorts of honours for her work as a botanical artist.

The pinnacle of her career was producing the very first florilegium of the plants and flowers of Ireland. An Irish Florilegium Volume 1  was published in 1983 and Volume 2 followed in 1988.

​All 96 original watercolour plates are now kept in the Botanic Garden library at Glasnevin.

RECOMMENDED: I managed to acquire a new copy online for a very reasonable sum. because it has been out of print once and it's not easy to get hold of. I own an 
'An Irish Florilegium' won a bronze medal for the 'Most Beautiful Book in the World' at the Leipzig Book Fair
  • Hardcover: 224 pages, 48 Illustrations in colour
  • Publisher: Thames and Hudson Ltd (10 Nov. 2008) First published 1983​

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Botanic Gardens in the rest of Ireland
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Other gardens in the rest of Ireland
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Italian Garden on Garinish Island - via Wikimedia Commons
The Irish Garden
by Jane Powers

Rated an average of 5* by 11 reviews (Amazon UK)

This is a book about 40 gardens in Ireland written by one of Ireland's foremost experts on all things related to the garden This book has attracted some extremely positibe reviews in newspapers and magazines as well as those who have bought it.
Hardcover: 400 pages
Publisher: Frances Lincoln (2 April 2015)

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