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What shape is honeysuckle?
If you ever ask anyone to draw a flower it will usually be five or six petals surrounding a round centre with a stalk and two leaves. There are flowers like that, of course, but I never cease to be amazed at just how many different shapes (and colours) they actually come in. I was [...]
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Tall tales in the Garden
A weekend of wonderful and warming tales is on the agenda for the Storytelling Weekend at the National Botanic Garden of Wales. The event takes place in various venues around the Garden on Saturday and Sunday February 25-26 and features a number of silver-tongued story-tellers, including Jeff Rees, Anne Lister, Suzanne Hughes Owen, Grethe Gillman, [...]
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The National Botanic Garden of Wales is urging fans of classic vehicles to make a date at the Garden on Sunday (March 25) when the Towy Valley Vintage Club will be on parade for their annual, start-of-season ‘crank-up’. As the weather is set fair, it’s going to be a top treat of gleaming chrome, [...]
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Common or Garden Birds
The National Botanic Garden of Wales is focusing on bird-watching on the weekend of February 18-19 with the help of experts from RSPB Cymru. Staff and volunteers from RSPB Cymru will lead two guided walks per day on the Saturday (18th) and Sunday (19th) around the Garden and the Waun Las National Nature Reserve. The [...]
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It’s ‘Potty Time’ at the Garden
Making a Welsh ‘Potty Woman’ is on the menu of half-term family activities at the National Botanic Garden of Wales. Head of Learning Jane Richmond is leading the ‘potty woman’ making sessions. She said: “I know it sounds a bit ‘potty’ but a Welsh ‘potty woman’ is a traditionally dressed woman made out of flower [...]
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Jupiter Rising
Star-gazers have their fingers crossed for a good view of some heavenly bodies at the National Botanic Garden on Friday February 17. Organisers from Swansea Astronomical Society are praying for clear skies because, as this is a moonless night, it is the ideal opportunity to see Jupiter and its moons. They are also going to [...]
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Housing, Regeneration and Heritage Minister Huw Lewis today confirmed the funding package to be provided to the National Botanic Garden of Wales over the next two years. In 2011 the Welsh Government announced a three year package of support including annual revenue funding of £550,000 between 2012 and 2014, plus a conditional grant of £150,000 [...]
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Glimpse of spring
Horticulturist Angela Singleton looks for signs of spring to add colour and lift the spirits . . . Winter flowering shrubs provide a welcome glimpse of spring in the cold months at the beginning of the year; a little splash of colour in an otherwise dull border can lift the spirits. Many of these [...]
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Craft Fair is a gift
Looking for that perfect Valentine’s Day gift for a cherished loved one? Then beat a path to the door of the National Botanic Garden of Wales next week. On Saturday and Sunday February 11-12, the Garden hosts the first of its 2012 ‘Four Seasons Craft Fairs’ in the stunning surrounds of the Great Glasshouse. There’s [...]
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