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Good guy Rank attained: Chlorophyll for blood
Joined: 11 Feb 2013 Posts: 2593 Location: Donegal
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Posted: Sat Aug 29, 2015 11:40 pm Post subject: Oakfield Park today |
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Just a few photos to I've a flavour of the place:
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Ado 2 Rank attained: Chlorophyll for blood
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Posted: Sun Aug 30, 2015 8:28 am Post subject: |
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Very impressive. Thanks you for the photos
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tagwex Rank attained: Chlorophyll for blood

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Posted: Sun Aug 30, 2015 10:34 am Post subject: |
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I note on the first photo that the lawn has been cut in three directions.
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Posted: Sun Aug 30, 2015 10:45 am Post subject: |
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It has indeed, Tagwex. The closer to the house, the more formal things get - that lawn is cut every two days! That's what you can do if you can employ seven gardeners, one of them a full-time green keeper. The whole estate is c160 acres. There is a small walled veg garden for the household and staff get any surplus produce.
One of the interesting things Gerry Robinson has done is to make lakes and naturally wet areas in the low-lying part of the estate that would have been drained by the Planters 300 years ago, putting the land back the way it was. He has also planted thousands of trees and has restored original woodland, some of which is shown on Griffith's Valuation maps, so is presumably native.
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