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• Category: Blog
  • Important information regarding Covid-19 re-opening 18 May 2020
  • A Special Poem To Mark Poetry Day Ireland
  • JOIN OUR VIRTUAL EASTER EGG HUNT ON FACEBOOK!
  • On this day, April 4th, 1886
  • On this day, April 1st, 1823
  • On this day, March 26, 1793
  • On this day, March 21st, 1845
  • On this day, March 19th, 1915
  • On this day, March 14th 1912
  • Important information regarding Covid-19 (Coronavirus)
  • On this day, March 7th, 1962
  • Tourism Day at Fota House – Friday 17th April
  • Fota Portraits in Black and White
  • Calling Green Fingers for the Fota House Plant & Garden Fair
  • VISIT DOROTHY’S EASTER TRAIL!
  • Caring for Collections – Conservation in action
  • Remembering John Charles Beswick
  • How to make wildflower seed bombs.
  • Azara Microphylla ‘Variegata’
  • Lady Barrymore’s other daughter
  • NATURE IS THE BEST DESIGNER OF ALL
  • A FAIR DAY FOR A PLANT FAIR
  • ANGELS IN THE ORANGERY
  • FLUTTERING AROUND… SALLY’S CHOICE
  • A PROFUSION OF FUCHSIA AT VICTORIAN WORKING GARDEN
  • WHO SAID WHAT ABOUT GARDENING AND WROTE IT DOWN
  • What is an Arboretum?
  • The Fernery at Fota
  • Category: Collections
    • Charles Beswick’s School Atlas
    • Bust of a Lady with Ringlets
    • David Barry, First Earl of Barrymore (1604-1642)
    • Thomas Roberts (1748-1777), ‘A Landstorm’
    • Hugh Douglas Hamilton (1740-1808), Portrait of Mrs Hartley (c.1773)
    • George Elgar Hicks (1824-1914), Portrait of Geraldine Smith-Barry, 1885
    • The Irish Heritage Trust Collection of Historic Wallpaper
    • Olive’s Pram from Strokestown Park
    • Category: Architecture
      • On this day, April 5th, 1894
      • John Smith Barry Returns Home to Fota House
      • Dining Room Ceiling Detail
    • Category: Garden
    • Category: House
    • Category: On Loan
    • Category: Paintings
    • Category: Wallpaper
  • Category: Events
  • Category: Featured
    • Fota Arboretum and Gardens Re-Opening Monday 18th May 2020
  • Category: Food
    • An Eastern Gem – Other gardens
    • From Free Soil to Warm Earth – New York to Cork
    • Anything Kew can do…..Ginkgo Biloba – yin xing 銀杏
    • Celebrate Autumn’s “mists and mellow fruitfulness”!
    • You say to-may-toh… I say poisonous mandrake!
    • The Bees Knees….
  • Category: Gardening
    • Sempervivum arachnoideum – Catherine’s choice
    • Flower tower – Echium pininana
    • A Small Blue Goddess
    • Fota Frameyard Field Trip
    • New kids on the (Frameyard) block
    • What time is it in Fota? It’s rhododendron time!
    • What’s flowering in the Fota Frameyard?
    • We’re open! Come and visit us in the Fota Frameyard.
    • W is for Wallflower
    • And if there’s ONE tree you must see at Fota…
    • A Tale of 2 Trees or a Tree of 2 Halves?
    • Our own BFGs in Fota!
    • Chocolate or Vanilla?
    • From China to Fota – The Handkerchief Tree
    • Can you throw your hat through the tree? Pruning in Fota orchard…
    • Between the car park and the Frameyard…
    • A gardener’s work is never done
    • A Woman’s Place is in the Garden – Meet Gertrude Jekyll
    • Building the walls
    • The art of the garden
    • Behind the scenes at Fota – the Volunteers
    • October Glory – Acer rubrum
  • Category: General Information
    • The Fota House Game Larder
    • FOTA HOUSE, ARBORETUM & GARDENS WELCOMES FIRST VOLUNTEER TOURIST
    • The Last Letter
    • Mrs Rundell’s Really Rich Custard
    • Preparing for Christmas, Dressings Aside …
    • The unbelievable tale of Lady Barrymore ‘The Boxing Baroness’ – boxing and boozing in Regency London
    • The Columbine, Cowes and The Water Club of the Harbour of Cork … More Racing Around in Yachts!
    • Racing around in yachts – sailing for pleasure with the Smith-Barrys in honour of Annalise
    • Fota and the Rising, April 24 1916
    • Tally ho! A Jolly Good Show! … Foxhunting and Ascendancy in Co. Cork
    • Sprinkles and your letters to Santa!
    • Sprinkles the Elf is Decorating Fota House for Christmas!
    • Christmas with the Bells
    • Sprinkles is getting ready for the Magic of Santa at Fota House!
    • The seasons at Fota: winter slowly arrives
    • Robert Raymond Smith Barry, Pioneer Pilot
  • Category: Guest Blogs
    • “The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.”
  • Category: Heritage
    • Clint Eastwood and the Talking Trees
  • Category: Local (gardening) Heroes
    • Local (gardening) Heroes
  • Category: Nature
    • Loving the Wildlife
    • An intriguing visitor to the Frameyard
    • A Murder of Crows
    • Bath time at Fota!
    • Getting your birds on the property ladder!
    • Fota Frameyard Swallows
  • Category: Other Gardens
  • Category: Stories
    • The Early History of the Barry Family
    • The Barrys Come to Ireland
    • Michelle and Allan’s Wedding in Fota House & Arboretum
    • The Last Letter
  • Category: Trees
  • Category: Volunteer's plant choice
    • From the Canaries to Fota
    • A wonderful addition to any garden…
    • 3 great “Workhorses” for your garden
    • Strawberry Trees Forever…
    • Gabriella’s Choice -The Sweet Pea
    • Edwina’s choice – Morina Longifolia – Himalayan whorlflower
• Category: Children
• Category: Culture
  • Cork Light Orchestra celebrates Fota 200
• Category: Donate
  • Painting restoration
  • Library Dry Rot
  • Gardener’s House Restoration
• Category: Music