The John F. Kennedy Arboretum is a public park located in New Ross, County Wexford, Ireland, situated upon the Hook Head Peninsula. President de Valera officially declared the JFK Arboretum open on May 29, 1968. The National Botanic Gardens of Ireland took over administration of the John F. Kennedy Arboretum in 2013. The Arboretum has a renowned plantation of trees that is devoted to the remembrance of John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the 35th President of the United States, being in office between 1960 to 1963. The Arboretum spans 252 hectares and climbs from 36 meters at its southern edge to 271 meters at the peak of Sliabh Coiltir, a notable hill which oversees the Kennedy ancestral house at Dunganstown, in the southeast corner of Ireland, 12 km south of New Ross. More than 5,000 different tree and shrub species, grown in botanical order, come from all temperate zones of the world today. It houses the greatest collection of trees of the nation that have been documented. The eventual objective was for the arboretum to become National Arboretum of Ireland by maintaining a complete, rationally planted and well recorded arboretum with auxiliary holdings and data-enquiry services. A set of custodial plots, where six species of conifers and diverse Elm growth-responsiveness-experiments are being conducted, as well as forestry plots, where 220 taxa of forest trees are being raised in plots and for which growth-data is meticulously consolidated, are a reflection of the conservation and study components of the arboretum. A sluggish-growth conifer grove, a phenological garden, a rhododendron garden with over 500 diverse varieties, a plant-compendium dedicated to renowned Irish plant hunter Augustine Henry and sizeable compilations of Acer, Quercus, Prunus, Viburnum, Berberis and Betula are just a few of the noteworthy collections. The trip of President Kennedy to Ireland in June 1963 marked a turning point in recent history and sparked the soul of the nation. The tour of the President to the ancestral homestead, which is now the JFK Homestead, to drink tea with his Irish cousins, was a significant part event of the tour. After his unexpected passing, many Irish-American organizations wanted to create a memorial forest in Ireland as a living legacy of him. The neighborhood grounds of the Kennedy homestead were purchased entirely when enough money was obtained at the suggestion of Irish government that the idea should take the shape of a national arboretum. The arboretum now plays a bigger part in protecting endangered tree species by acting as a reserve. A number of the most vulnerable conifers in the world were supposed to be established at the arboretum in 2022 on more than 10 acres of fresh planting. It is supposed to be the single largest planted collection of the International Conifer Conservation Program (ICCP), which will consist of some 1300 trees that represent 24 threatened conifer species. [Information and Image Credit : John_F_Kennedy_Arboretum , Wikipedia] [Image: Sunrise at the lake, John. F. Kennedy Arboretum] [Image Availed Under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International; Author : DARANLUP, Wikipedia; (Kindly Relate to Individual Source Image URLs for More Usage Properties)] [License-Link : https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.en ] [Source Image URL : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:JFK_Arboretum-1.jpg ]
Picturesque
