{"id":2271,"date":"2008-09-02T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-02T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/?p=2271"},"modified":"2009-04-15T08:28:28","modified_gmt":"2009-04-15T13:28:28","slug":"s_logs-dashew-dashew552","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/s_logs-dashew-dashew552\/","title":{"rendered":"Ilnacullin Gardens"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"intro\">A visit to Ilnacullin Gardens, which captured even Steve under its spell.<\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><div align=\"center\" class=\"mosimage\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"576\" hspace=\"6\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Image\" title=\"Image\" src=\"\/images\/stories\/dashew\/ilnacullin-58.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>A short dinghy ride from <em>Wind Horse<\/em> lies the island of Ilnacullin, with its world-famous gardens.<\/p>\n<p><div align=\"center\" class=\"mosimage\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"350\" hspace=\"6\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Image\" title=\"Image\" src=\"\/images\/stories\/dashew\/ilnacullin-51.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>Rain squalls and sun are playing tag, and while the weather is not perfect, it is forecast to get a lot worse, so off we go.<\/p>\n<p><div align=\"center\" class=\"mosimage\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"612\" hspace=\"6\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Image\" title=\"Image\" src=\"\/images\/stories\/dashew\/ilnacullin-4.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>Ilnacullin is the work of Annan Bryce, the original owner, and Harold Petro, landscape architect, and dates from the early part of the last century.<\/p>\n<p><div align=\"center\" class=\"mosimage\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"576\" hspace=\"6\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Image\" title=\"Image\" src=\"\/images\/stories\/dashew\/ilnacullin-31.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>This being a damp climate (have we mentioned this fact before?) with eight or more feet (2.4m) of annual rainfall, there is no problem with lack of moisture.<\/p>\n<p><div align=\"center\" class=\"mosimage\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"398\" hspace=\"6\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Image\" title=\"Image\" src=\"\/images\/stories\/dashew\/ilnacullin-9.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>A huge variety of plants and flowers abound, and even the more technically inclined members of our crew enjoy the sights.<\/p>\n<p><div align=\"center\" class=\"mosimage\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"612\" hspace=\"6\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Image\" title=\"Image\" src=\"\/images\/stories\/dashew\/ilnacullin-29.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps the most amazing fact is that these 37 acres of dense foliage are maintained by a crew of six men.<\/p>\n<p><div align=\"center\" class=\"mosimage\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"405\" hspace=\"6\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Image\" title=\"Image\" src=\"\/images\/stories\/dashew\/ilnacullin-41.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>There are remnants of fortifications, of course. This is one of the guard towers we mentioned earlier, that were built during the Napoleonic wars.<\/p>\n<p><div align=\"center\" class=\"mosimage\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"576\" hspace=\"6\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Image\" title=\"Image\" src=\"\/images\/stories\/dashew\/ilnacullin-55.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>Ilnacullin is considered one of the five loveliest gardens in Europe. It averages 65,000 visitors a year between May and October. But today we have it almost to ourselves.<\/p>\n<p>If man can create something this lovely, maybe there is hope for the future after all.<\/p>\n<p><div align=\"center\" class=\"mosimage\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"540\" hspace=\"6\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Image\" title=\"Image\" src=\"\/images\/stories\/dashew\/ilnacullin-48.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p><div align=\"center\" class=\"mosimage\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"576\" hspace=\"6\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Image\" title=\"Image\" src=\"\/images\/stories\/dashew\/ilnacullin-33.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p><div align=\"center\" class=\"mosimage\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"369\" hspace=\"6\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Image\" title=\"Image\" src=\"\/images\/stories\/dashew\/ilnacullin-62.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p><div align=\"center\" class=\"mosimage\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"540\" hspace=\"6\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Image\" title=\"Image\" src=\"\/images\/stories\/dashew\/ilnacullin-67.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p><div align=\"center\" class=\"mosimage\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"576\" hspace=\"6\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Image\" title=\"Image\" src=\"\/images\/stories\/dashew\/ilnacullin-69.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p><div align=\"center\" class=\"mosimage\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"576\" hspace=\"6\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Image\" title=\"Image\" src=\"\/images\/stories\/dashew\/ilnacullin-59.jpg\" \/><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A visit to Ilnacullin Gardens, which captured even Steve under its spell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dashew-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2271"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2271\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}