Herman Dool exhibition opens at Mount Congreve in Waterford
Image by David Clynch
Mount Congreve Gardens has announced the opening of the Herman Dool Exhibition.
The exhibition was officially opened recently by Her Excellency Maaike van Koldam, Ambassador of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, to Ireland.
In the early 1960s, Herman Dool took up his position at Mount Congreve and was Garden Director for almost 40 years. Alongside Ambrose Congreve, he created masterful work on what has been hailed by the Horticultural Society of Massachusetts as “one of the Great Gardens of the World".
The Herman Dool Exhibition serves as a tribute to Herman's vision and work.
Through a rich array of artefacts, visitors will gain insight into Herman’s life and legacy. Highlights include early photographs from Boskoop, the Netherlands, where Herman’s love for plants ignited, alongside his personal diaries of the garden, educational certificates, and tools of the trade, such as his grafting knives, which he used daily. The exhibition will also feature significant documents that chronicle Herman’s journey, including his terms of employment correspondence from 1960, his work diary from 1961, and even a handwritten note from Marjorie Congreve.
