Primrose Hill Gardens

I have been to Primerose Hill Garden last June 2013 when at the time I didn’t know Unilocal,so I thought to put my review now, anyway, so bare with me about this.
Introduction
This garden is classified into a list of what they call Houses, Gardens & Houses of Ireland (HCGI) but so far I have still to understand who is this organization. They have a website who doesn’t explain clearly whose organization they represent. Just for the record.
I didn’t know this garden existed before till I was in Lucan Town and I saw a brown sign (it means it is related to heritage, tourism, place to visit) so I follow the path into Primrose Lane.
That day was really sunny and hot so I was enjoying a proper Sunday Summer day with my girlfriend. At the entrance of this lane on your right side there is a house with plants and flowers in front of the door, so I suppose that touristically speaking you can get the idea for some nice photo shootings as I did.
Entrance
We proceed till almost the end of the road and we saw an hand written sign in front or the gate with the name of this garden and opening hours and especially the price, 6 Euro adult. Considering that in Ireland there are parks, museums, gardens (ie. Botanic Garden), amenities almost free of charge, seeing the 6 Euro Entrance Fee per person I could imagine was something really great with touristic guides and much more. Maybe some fireworks, no, of course this last one I was joking.
In the doubt if to not pay and leave the premises or enter and pay 12 Euro I decided to go forward for the second option, to give it a try. If I knew what it was about I should have left the premises.
From the front gate, we had a walk of about 5 minutes till to reach this regency villa (I don’t know if belonged or planned by James Gandon). I couldn’t see any signs nor directions to the garden. After a couple of minutes I spot another entrance under an arch so I saw a man sat on a garden chair beside the table with a metal box like the one for the biscuits and he asked us for the entrance fee: 12 Euro total. We paid then we entered into the garden where I was completely disappointed.
My disappointment
The garden was almost completely neglected. Plants where going every were. No labels whatsoever. The foot paths where partially invaded by plants, not sure if wild plants or the ones they have in display. The only area where was looked after was the lawn, front of the living room of this house in the back garden and another tiny area where there was a wooden seat. It was cut I suppose with a lawnmower. Also the garden was one of the smallest garden I have ever seen in Ireland so far. Now I didn’t measure the size but was really small. I was disappointed because I paid 6 Euro to see a messy garden and flowers I couldn’t understand the names. If they money I paid were for the maintenance of it why nobody didn’t look after that?
It might possible that we came in at the wrong day or month of the year, not sure about this. Maybe now it is fine. But even that considering what it is offering I would avoid going there, unless you pay 3 Euro, but 6 in my conscience is too much.
At the time we were there no tours have been provided or talked about a scheduled tour. No signs of facilities such as toilette or coffee shop I have seen. While in the garden we met a woman who I believe she lives in the house or she manage it. We exchanged the greetings and she advised also to see an area adjacent to the garden but the gate was closed so she opened it but the same story, messy plants and the area was even smaller than the garden itself :-) I don’t want to blame anybody but this is how the facts happened.
Again, it might be possible that this is 1 out of a million time inconvenient due to a wrong day or time of the visit. Therefore we entered at the right time displayed at the front gate (which it was opened). In the garden was present other 2 visitors.