Powerscourt Gardens and Waterfall

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On Easter Saturday, we took a ride and headed to Powerscourt Garden in Bray, Co. Wicklow. Tom and Tanya had stayed in the hotel here and said the gardens were beautiful and worth a trip (they are on their way to Dublin and then off to some other E.U. destinations before returning home).

You can see the Powerscourt House in the background. The gardens cover many, many acres and have been voted the #3 gardens in the world!
Lots and lots of tulips blooming.
Roses on the way to the Japanese garden

On the bridge in the Japanese garden
This was called the Dolphin Pond because of the fountain in the center. Nora was terribly disappointed to learn there were no actual dolphins in the pond 😦
This pond and fountain is directly behind the house, so it is what a visitor would see from the windows or terrace of the house, at the far side of the Italian garden. As you can see from the photos, there were tons of people there! It was the most crowded tourist place we have been to by far.
They had so many kinds of trees in the garden! There were varieties from all over the world, including giant redwoods from California. Some of them were hundreds of years old. Not sure what kind of tree this one was, but the cool breeze in its shade was delightful. It had to have been close to 100 feet tall.

After the garden, we took a short but harrowing drive up a narrow and twisty road to the Powerscourt waterfall, the tallest waterfall in Ireland. The weather was so nice, and everyone was on Easter break, so literally thousands of people were there. Many of them had packed picnic lunches and looked to be spending the whole day. Some even had hibachi grills beside their cars, like a tailgating party! Luckily, by the time we left there was much less traffic on the road back into town, so the return trip was less than harrowing. Then we headed back to the house to get ready for Easter the next day, and Bob and I had our first date night in almost 6 months! Hurray!
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We're a homeschooling family of eight - five girls and three boys. Our children are ages 20, 19, 17, 15, 12, 10, 7, and 5. We will be living in Ireland for the next six months, and then going to Tennessee! This blog is a documentation of our travels. Enjoy!! :)

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2 thoughts on “Powerscourt Gardens and Waterfall”

  1. Gorgeous! Thank you for sharing. So great that Uncle Tom and Friend came to visit. Happy for you and Bobby getting some time together. Powerscourt is a name of a style of Waterford crystal. I see why they chose it now!

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  2. This is awesome! The weather looks great! The kids look so grown! In my old age, I’ve decided I love flowers! Lol yay for date night!!! ❤️❤️❤️ 💐

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