PHOENIX PARK EVERGREEN OAK PLANTED IN PHOENIX PARK
EVERGREEN OAK PLANTED IN PHOENIX PARK - PRESENTED BY LORD ARDILAUN
Arthur Edward Guinness, 1st Baron Ardilaun, 2nd Baronet (1 November 1840 – 20 January 1915), known as Sir Arthur Guinness, Bt, between 1868 and 1880, was an Irish businessman, politician, and philanthropist, best known for giving St Stephen's Green back to the people of Dublin.
Buildings and roads cover 45% of Dublin City. In The Phoenix Park they cover only 7%.
Almost the entire Park consists of green areas which are excellent for wild plants and wildlife. There are twenty-four different habitats (places where wild plants and animals live).
Woodlands and tree-dominated areas cover 31% or 220ha, and grasslands cover 56% or 398ha. Habitats include six types of woodland, five types of grassland, as well as hedgerows, scrub, ponds, streams, and wet ditches.
Most of the grasslands in the Park were grazed and topped until the 1970s. Since then, with the removal of hay, the diversity of these grasslands has been improving. Extensive open areas of grassland such as the Fifteen Acres provide nesting sites for skylark. Grasslands, which are remote from the main thoroughfares, are not cut and thus provide food and shelter for invertebrates and cover for small animals.
A rare type of grassland is found on the steep terraces on the south side of the Park. It has numerous colourful wild herbs including the rare and protected plant, Hairy Violet. Small areas of wet grassland, indicated by the presence of rushes, are found particularly near Oldtown Wood. In one of these is found another rare and protected plant, the grass meadow barley.
Important features of native floristic diversity within the Phoenix Park include the Hairy St John’s Wort on the edge of cleared woodland in the grounds of Áras an Uachtarái, Hairy Violet on the sand and gravel terraces at the south of the Park, and the grass Meadow Barley in the wet grassland near the outfall from the Quarry Lake. The former was not seen in the Park since the eighteenth century. Hairy Violet has been seen in previous decades, and is in decline, but no previous record has been made for the grass.
Arthur Edward Guinness, 1st Baron Ardilaun, 2nd Baronet (1 November 1840 – 20 January 1915), known as Sir Arthur Guinness, Bt, between 1868 and 1880, was an Irish businessman, politician, and philanthropist, best known for giving St Stephen's Green back to the people of Dublin.
Buildings and roads cover 45% of Dublin City. In The Phoenix Park they cover only 7%.
Almost the entire Park consists of green areas which are excellent for wild plants and wildlife. There are twenty-four different habitats (places where wild plants and animals live).
Woodlands and tree-dominated areas cover 31% or 220ha, and grasslands cover 56% or 398ha. Habitats include six types of woodland, five types of grassland, as well as hedgerows, scrub, ponds, streams, and wet ditches.
Most of the grasslands in the Park were grazed and topped until the 1970s. Since then, with the removal of hay, the diversity of these grasslands has been improving. Extensive open areas of grassland such as the Fifteen Acres provide nesting sites for skylark. Grasslands, which are remote from the main thoroughfares, are not cut and thus provide food and shelter for invertebrates and cover for small animals.
A rare type of grassland is found on the steep terraces on the south side of the Park. It has numerous colourful wild herbs including the rare and protected plant, Hairy Violet. Small areas of wet grassland, indicated by the presence of rushes, are found particularly near Oldtown Wood. In one of these is found another rare and protected plant, the grass meadow barley.
Important features of native floristic diversity within the Phoenix Park include the Hairy St John’s Wort on the edge of cleared woodland in the grounds of Áras an Uachtarái, Hairy Violet on the sand and gravel terraces at the south of the Park, and the grass Meadow Barley in the wet grassland near the outfall from the Quarry Lake. The former was not seen in the Park since the eighteenth century. Hairy Violet has been seen in previous decades, and is in decline, but no previous record has been made for the grass.
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