4 New Job Opportunities

We’ve got four new job vacancies 1. Marketing Assistant 2. Trainee Horticulturalist 3. Horticulturalist (Propagation) 4. Resource Development/ Education Officer / Datblygu Adnodd / Swyddog Addysg To find out more, please follow this link to our Job Vacancies page.

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Bring your recipes and remedies from days gone by to ‘culinary Antiques Roadshow’

 A visit to the Garden isn’t normally the place to go to unearth rare recipes and remedies or to get free digital media training. But the West Wales Food Festival and Culturenet Cymru’s Hertitage in the Community project have linked up to invite people to digitally chronicle old family recipes and remedies to ensure they [...]

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Crafts in Action

It’s Crafts in Action at the National Botanic Garden this bank holiday weekend (April 30, May 1&2) where local crafts people will be putting on a show of their skills. From woodturning , willow sculpture and wildlife photography; to pottery, portraiture and Paula shell jewellery – there’s bound to be a craft or two to [...]

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Garden Blog - Spring is Sprung

Garden Blog – Spring is Sprung

We hadn’t been to the National Botanic Garden of Wales for the last two or three of weeks because we had been to the Canary Islands soaking up the sun – well someone’s got to do it, and we very kindly brought the sun back with us.  After I had finished my volunteer jobs this [...]

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Famous Chefs Booked for our Gala Dinner

Famous chefs will cook you dinner at the National Botanic Garden of Wales. Stephen Terry, Gareth Johns and the chefs from Y Polyn are providing a course each for the West Wales Food Festival ‘gala dinner’ on Sunday May 15. The two-day food festival features local producers in the Festival Market and celebrity chefs cooking [...]

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Easter at the Garden/Pasg yn yr Ardd

Easter at the Garden/Pasg yn yr Ardd

It’s magic! There’s music, mystery, magic and balloon modelling in the Garden this Easter – and a chance to make your own windmill! Jugglestruck will be providing the magic, mystery, fire juggling and balloon modelling; The world-famous Quack Pack will be laying on the spec-duck-ular thrills and spills; meanwhile, Theatr na n’Og are putting on [...]

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Starling work/Chwedl y Drudwy

Children in Need-funded theatre comes to the National Botanic Garden of Wales on Thursday April 21. Taking Flight Theatre Company are putting on two performances of Branwen’s Starling – a new adaptation of the original story from the Mabinogion by acclaimed Welsh writer Mark Ryan. Taking Flight’s Elise Davison says: “Branwen’s Starling is a magical [...]

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BBC Gardeners’ Question Time

The Garden features on this week’s BBC Radio 4 Gardener’s Question Time about 13 1/2  minutes in. Listen to what Natasha de Vere and Ivor Stokes have to say about using wild flowers in your garden.

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Garden Blog – A Double Walled Gardener’s View

March started off raw, the starlings moving in crowded eddies at dusk, evenings beside a smoky wood burner, tying in roses during the day; but now the weather has turned generously warm and there is the scent of hyacinths –some were left over last year and got replanted around the tanks in the Double Walled [...]

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Unique flavour for gala dinner / Blas unigryw ar gyfer cinio gala

 The very best food prepared by Wales’ best chefs – that’s one of the top treats in store at the third West Wales Food Festival. A star-studded line-up will prepare a special three-course gala dinner on the Sunday night of the event, which is being held at the National Botanic Garden of Wales on Saturday [...]

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