Garden is Top 10 Destination for Dr Who fans

Garden is Top 10 Destination for Dr Who fans

Visit Britain has nominated the Garden as one of the 10 Top Filming Locations.

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Top of the crops

Top of the crops

We’re going bananas about apples at the National Botanic Garden of Wales. You will also be able to taste, try and buy apples as well as buy chutney, cheese, apple pie and pork products. The popular ‘examination table’ will be in operation again so, if you have an apple tree in your garden, bring along [...]

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Daily Express says ‘Make Britain the apple of your eye this Autumn’

See how the Daily Express is getting excited by our upcoming Apple Festival on October 15th and 16th.

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Special project puts landmarks in the picture

Special project puts landmarks in the picture

A royal residence, a bishop’s palace, a lighthouse, an airport and a couple of castles; all have been the focus of a landmark photographic project involving 150 schoolchildren from learning support units in schools from Milford Haven to Swansea. The finale of the two-year ‘Learning From the Landscape’ project is a grand display of images [...]

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Fascinated by Fungi book launch

Fascinated by Fungi book launch

On Saturday 24th September, we are proud to be hosting the launch of a fantastic new book on fungi by Pat O’Reilly. Come and get a signed copy, enjoy a special fungi menu in our Seasons Restaurant and see some wild fingi on a fungi guided walk 2-3pm.               [...]

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Assembly and now the Garden sign Sustainable Development Charter

Read more about this in the Western Mail.

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Garden Blog - It can’t be autumn already?

Garden Blog – It can’t be autumn already?

We haven’t been to the National Botanic Garden of Wales for about 4 weeks due to visits from children and grandchildren and visits to friends and family in Derbyshire and we noticed, when we were on our travels, that the trees had already started to change colour.  Have you noticed how many hawthorn berries there [...]

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Stella Voci Opera

Stella Voci Opera

Four opera singers from the Royal Northern College of Music wowed visitors to the Great Glasshouse this Sunday.  The young singing stars are raising money for the charity Concern Universal and will be performing their favourite music, including opera excerpts of Carmen, The Marriage of Figaro and The Pirates of Penzance. The four singers were soprano Rhiannon Herridge, [...]

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Chrysanthemum’s the word

Chrysanthemum’s the word

Some of the best chrysanths in Wales will be on show at the National Botanic Garden on September 17-18. The Chrysanthemum Show is organised by the South Wales Group of the National Chrysanthemum Society, one of just six groups covering the whole of the UK. Society member and National Botanic Garden volunteer Brian James, from [...]

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Opera-tunity knocks for Garden visitors

Opera-tunity knocks for Garden visitors

Opera-tunity knocks for Garden visitors Four of the finest young classical singers in the country are joining forces for a charity concert at the National Botanic Garden of Wales. Stella Voci is a group of five talented singers and best friends all studying at the Royal Northern College of Music and they will be in [...]

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