Fashion Show/Sioe Ffasiwn

Eat your heart out Project Catwalk! Coleg Sir Gar’s Graduate Fashion Show is about to take centre stage at the National Botanic Garden of Wales. Against the beautiful backdrop of the Great Glasshouse and hosted by S4C’s Huw Rees, this stunning event will showcase the work of fashion students and honours degree students at the [...]

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A honey bee sipping nectar

Taken by James Davies, this amazing photo shows a honey bee sipping nectar, watched by the beady eye of our Head of Science and Research, Dr Natasha de Vere. For the full story, follow this link.

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Dad is in for a treat on Fathers’ Day

Dad is in for a treat on Fathers’ Day

Dad is in for a treat on Fathers’ Day at the National Botanic Garden of Wales. All fathers are allowed into Carmarthenshire’s No 1 visitor attraction FREE of charge on Sunday June 19. The Fathers’ Day menu also includes beer and barbecues; musical entertainment from local musicians Fiddlebox; family entertainment from Jugglestruck; and family activities, [...]

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Garden Blog – Out for a Duck

I hoped to find a topic for a blog on our weekly trip to the National Botanic Garden of Wales today but I was busy in the office all the morning.  We do get time off for good behaviour to eat our lunch and we usually like to sit outside, weather permitting.  Today we sat [...]

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Come out to play / Drama’r dydd

Come out to play / Drama’r dydd

The popular Quantum Theatre Company are back at the Garden on Sunday June 12 with an open-air performance of Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations. A terrifying encounter with an escaped convict in a graveyard on the wild Kent marshes; a summons to meet the bitter, decaying Miss Havisham and her beautiful, cold-hearted ward Estella; the sudden [...]

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New curator appointed/Penodi curadur newydd

New curator appointed/Penodi curadur newydd

Simon Goodenough, who for 23 years has been Curator of Ventnor Botanic Garden on the Isle of Wight, will join the National Botanic Garden of Wales as Curator on 1 July 2011. Dr Rosie Plummer, Garden Director, said: “Simon has known the Garden from its earliest days. In addition to his skills as a horticulturist, [...]

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June in Plant Sales

June marks the transition from spring into summer and our gardens burst into life with bees, butterflies and other beneficial insects all busy at work. If we are lucky, our efforts earlier in the year will be rewarded with magnificent shows of blooms and a riot of different colours and textures. Inevitably there will be [...]

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