Deep In the heart of County Wicklow (the Garden of Ireland) lies the perfect escape from the stresses of everyday life.
The new store is open! We’ve invested €4.5 million in the Kilquade store and every bit of the 2,400 square metres is looking amazing!
We can’t wait for you to see it in person, Here’s what you can expect:
Enter through plants
Remember the open-air plant area from before? Remember how chilly and wet it could be? Forget all that – we now have a huge covered plant area which will be crammed with a dazzling range of high-quality plants for every season, 85% of which come from Irish growers.
Rachel’s Garden Café
This is the one part of the original footprint that we didn’t touch, but our chefs are so excited to be back in their splendid 100-seater café space that they have promised a new slant to our famous Arboretum fare. Can perfection be improved on? We’ll see!
Arboretum isn’t just for plants
Our beautiful heated shop area allows us the space to introduce Kilquade customers to some new departments such as houseplants, fashion, health and wellness, and our carefully curated range of giftware and homeware.
More, more, more
There will be more gardening products, more garden furniture and more Weber barbecues!
Exhibition gardens
Please bear with us as we bring the 17 individually designed gardens of the former National Garden Exhibition Centre back to glory. That’s our next big project!
Sustainable business
We had the opportunity with the new development to limit our impact on the planet. It was important to us to do this right from the start. The new facility makes use of:
- Rainwater harvesting – water collected from our roof will be used to water the plants
- Air-to-water heating – heat from the air outside is transformed into gas to heat the inside
- Underfloor heating – based on the principle that heat rises, underfloor heating is much more efficient than conventional central heating, especially for large spaces
- LED lighting
- Solar-generated electricity
We acquired the National Garden Exhibition Centre in 2015 and are so pleased to have been able to give our customers the destination garden centre they deserve before we reached that ten-year milestone. Our 64 or so team members are fired up and ready to give you our characteristic Arboretum welcome. Drop in soon!