A Wonderful Day Out

We came across this lovely blog abbout the Garden, ‘A Wonderful Day Out in January‘  by the West Wales Holiday Cottages blogger.

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What a Good Start for 2012

This week we went to the National Botanic Garden of Wales for the first time since before Christmas.  I hadn’t really expected there to be all that much to see, in spite of the fact that we saw some catkins before we even got to the Garden, but being one of life’s ever-hopefuls I had [...]

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What a Good Start for 2012

This week we went to the National Botanic Garden of Wales for the first time since before Christmas.  I hadn’t really expected there to be all that much to see, in spite of the fact that we saw some catkins before we even got to the Garden, but being one of life’s ever-hopefuls I had [...]

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Surprising Winter Colour

The Garden is the regular subject of bloggers, some with unusual pseudonyms. ‘Squirrel Basket’ has just produced a wonderful  set of photographs of January colour in the Garden which is well worth a look.

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BERRY CHRISTMAS.

BERRY CHRISTMAS.

Winter is here again, although it has been unseasonably mild, the bananas in the Double Walled Garden are snugly wrapped against the cold and the gunneras have their giant leaves cut off, turned upside-down like pixie hats, to protect their crowns from frost. Holly berries are traditional for the Christmas season, such as the variegated [...]

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The Lure of the East

After getting his knees dirty on an archaeological dig on Waun Las, our Rob Thomas has been China to promote the Garden. Find out how our ‘history man’ links the 17th century Middleton Hall and modern day China by following his blog.

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Three Cheers for Good Old Veg

It was a dreary, dismal day when we went to the National Botanic Garden of Wales this week and, although I spent most of my time in the office, I did get to walk down to the gatehouse to deliver some things that were needed there.  As I’ve said before I always enjoy walking in [...]

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Would you believe it!

Would you believe it!

We hadn’t been to the National Botanic Garden of Wales for a couple of weeks and when we went for our volunteering stint this week, there was a brisk cold wind blowing but it was sunny.   It really feels like autumn now so it was not really surprising to be asked to go and collect [...]

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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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Sage Advice

With its herb garden and comfort food associations, culinary sage (Salvia officinalis) is a pleasant plant but not a very exciting one. That role is left to some of its cousins, which would, if plants had personalities, belong in a Mexican fiesta, with hot sunshine, rum, tequila and probably the sound of revolvers being fired [...]

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