Once part of the Bantry House estate, Cashelane Gardens directly overlooks some of the most spectacular scenery in Ireland.

Bantry Bay is warmed by the gulf stream, creating a microclimate that allows a range of exotic specimens to be grown. This is why our garden is home to many southern hemisphere natives such as Paulownia, Embotrium, Cestrum and Gunnera, which thrive among neighbours more familiar to these shores.

These include a large variety of azaleas and other rhododendrons (including the only scented variety of rhododendron, Fortuneii, and Leutum, the only scented azalea) as well as evergreen oaks and 'local heroes' like the myrtle that is at its happiest and most luxuriant in a narrow band between Killarney and Glengarriff.