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NEW FUNDING FOR THE NATIONAL BOTANIC GARDEN OF WALES
New funding for the National Botanic Garden of Wales, in Carmarthenshire has been announced today by the Welsh Assembly Government. In light of an independent value-for-money review, the Garden will receive £700,000 in revenue support for the 2011-12 financial year, subject to a number of agreed conditions. The review confirmed that all major botanic gardens [...]
No CommentsMiracle cure for pensioner suffering from osteoarthritis
A lady from Ipswich says a Paul Kincaid sculpture at the Garden helped her with her osteoarthritis. See what the Ipswich Evening Star and Wales on Sunday had to say about it.
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Garden Blog 16 – Raindrops falling on my head
It was a really miserable day when we went to do our volunteering at The National Botanic Garden of Wales this week. It often seems to be that way when we go – is someone trying to tell us something? One of the ‘jobs’ I was going to do was to go and look at [...]
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Bloom time at the Garden
It may have been the coldest winter in living memory but spring has sprung with a vengeance at the National Botanic Garden of Wales. Horticulturist Martin Knowles thinks we could be in for a spectacular show of blooms: “The prolonged cold spell has really squeezed the normal timings we’d expect to see spring flowers and [...]
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The Garden is the focus for last week’s Carmarthenshire based Escape to the Country on BBC1. We’re featured at the start and about 34 minutes in they take a look at what we’re doing to conserve Wales’ rare plants.
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The perfect haunt this half term
Ghosts, leeches, bees and special tour under the biggest single span glasshouse on the planet – all this and more is occurring at the National Botanic Garden of Wales this half term. All week, from Monday February 21 until Friday February 25, there is a host of activities and family fun events in the Garden. [...]
No CommentsS4C – Dan Glo
Episode 2 of Dan Glo, S4C’s adventure/challenge programme for kids, is 25 minutes worth of fun set entirely around the Garden. Well worth a watch even if you can’t speak Welsh!
No CommentsOpen Painting Competition Winners
The National Botanic Garden of Wales would like to announce the results of its 2010 Open Painting Competition. The Winners are:- Professional: Sherry Owen’s ‘Springtime in the Botanic Gardens’ Amateur: Margaret Price’s ‘The Rill’ 12-18 years: Karen Schwartz’s ‘Holidays’. Karen’s school is Gymnasium Philanthropinum. Dessau, Germany Under 12: Kelly McGurk’s ‘Bird of Paradise’. Kelly goes to Osbaston Church [...]
No CommentsLooking for inspiration? This space-age botanic dome in Wales has it covered
Daily Mail – 31/1/2011
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