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ing making soaps, pottery, and award-winning choco- with glasshouses and the head gardener’s house. The
lates. We sampled the candy - they were heavenly. other side contains a vegetable garden, herbaceous
Just outside the small chocolate factory, we board- border, fruit trees, a rockery and herb garden. We were
ed a shuttle to Kylemore’s six-acre Victorian Walled enjoying the dazzling display of flowers when an after-
Garden first developed in the late 1800s. It once noon shower turned to pelting rain and sent us back
boasted 21 heated glass houses and a workforce of to the shelter of the dining room and gift shop where
40 gardeners. Today a mountain stream divides the were enjoyed cake and chill-chasing tea.
garden in two, with one half a formal flower garden,

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