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'The Yard' at Mount Congreve
The Yard - selling the freshest of seasonal vegetables straight from the Walled Garden. Take a piece of Mount Congreve home with a plant propagated in our own Nursery or just enjoy a Tea/coffee and an ice cream.
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Terms & Conditions
Customers are respectively requested to honour the terms and conditions listed below:
- All plants are offered subject to being unsold on receipt of a firm order
- Goods supplied by Mount Congreve will remain their property until full payment has been received
- Payments is due 30 days from invoice unless special credit facilities have been agreed prior to the sale
- Interest will be charged on overdue accounts at a rate of 2% per month
- Customers who exceed credit terms risk losing their credit faclity and would then be asked to pay on a pro-forma basia
- New customers must provide 2 trade and 1 bank reference plus their V.A.T. number
- If references are not received in time or are inconclusive, new customers will be asked to pay for their first order on a pro-forma basis whereafter, subject to satisfactory references, a credit limit will be set.
- We reserve the right to adjust our prices without prior notice
- Complaints must be made in writing within 7 days of receipt of plants
- The placement of an order implies acceptance of these terms
- This list cancels all previous lists
- The above are governed by Irish law.
Deliveries
Our minimum carriage paid order is for 2 full Danish trolleys within Ireland and the U.K. (This equates to 900euro within Ireland & £750 sterling)
To keep transport costs to a minimum, we require each trolley despatched to be full and we will contact customers to make up part trolleys when necessary and expect customers to co-operate with this.
Orders for single trolleys will be accepted but there will be a delivery charge of 40euro within Ireland or £75 within the U.K.
We are able to deliver to other E.U. countries and will advise of transport charges at the time of enquiry.
Mount Congreve Wholesale Nursery
Mount Congreve Wholesale Nurseries are attached to the world famous gardens, situated in the heart of County Waterford in South Eastern Ireland.
Specialising in the production of quality container grown plants, we focus mostly on ericaceous stock with particular emphasis on Camellias.
Mount Congreve Wholesale Nurseries also produce rhododendrons and azaleas, plus an interesting range of shrubs including desfontainea, embothrium and pseudowintera.
Weekly deliveries are available in Ireland and England and Wales.
Please see below for a just a small selection of products we supply:
Mount Congreve Gardens
Words can only convey a small impression of what Mount Congreve has to offer. To get a full appreciation of what has been achieved here in such a short time by Mr Ambrose Congreve, one has to visit the garden as the seasons unfold.
The gardens at Mount Congreve, Waterford, consist of around seventy acres of intensively planted woodland garden and a four acre walled garden. The owner, the late Mr Ambrose Congreve, was inspired by Mr Lionel de Rothschild’s exceptional garden at Exbury in Hampshire, England.
It was here that his interest in gardening was nurtured and he became infected with a passion and enthusiasm for plants such as Rhododendrons, Magnolias, Camellias and indeed many other floras from every continent in the world.
The entire collection consists of over three thousand different trees and shrubs, more than two thousand Rhododendrons, six hundred Camellias, three hundred Acer cultivars, six hundred conifers, two hundred and fifty climbers and fifteen hundred herbaceous plants.
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Welcome to Mount Congreve
Mount Congreve House was built in about 1760 by the local architect John Roberts, who subsequently designed and built most of the 18th-century public buildings in Waterford, including both cathedrals. His client was John Congreve of Waterford, whose father the first Ambrose Congreve had played a prominent part in the development of the city until his early death in 1741.
Ambrose Congreve had been a successful merchant, banker, politician and land developer, and his son was following the trend for a successful businessman to acquire a country estate when he bought a tract of land a few miles outside the city from the Christmas family of Whitfield. Here he built, on a spectacular site overlooking the River Suir, what became Mount Congreve (the original Irish name, Bruachaille, means “the edge of a cliff”).
The Congreves were in constant residence and the estate passed in direct descent from father to son until the recent death of the late Mr Ambrose Congreve. On inheriting the house in 1963 Mr Congreve remodelled and embellished the house.
However Mount Congreve is ultimately famous for being the home of one of “the great gardens of the World”