In 1868, a Dublin businessman took over the lease on an acre of land and a mill at Mount Usher near Ashford, in Co Wicklow. Today, thanks to generations of the Walpole family, and since 1979 the work overseen by then new owner Mrs Madeleine Jay, the Mount Usher Gardens are spread over 20 acres and host some 5,000 species of plants and are a botanical treasure.
A Kilcullen Diary production by Brian Byrne, in association with Irish Car+Travel Magazine.
