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Materia Medica Blogs
Materia Medica is an exhibition created for Medicines in May in the Apothecary’s Hall. It has been created by drawing, painting and embroidery students from Coleg Sir Gar and their show has been overseen by tutor Cath Fairgreave. Four of the students have written about their work and involvement. Please have a look at their [...]
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Curator’s Blog – mid-April 2013
Well slowly but surely things are warming up, buds are finally swelling and in the space of a few days a new found greenness is becoming apparent. Bare looking beds are starting to show signs of life and herbaceous perennials awaken from slumber. Last year we started identifying plants from our borders and beds that [...]
2 CommentsVolunteers Blog – April 2013
A Good Place To Go Our visits to the National Botanic Garden of Wales are usually in the form volunteering and can be busy with no time for just wandering about. So we decided to go as visitors on Easter Sunday afternoon. It was a beautiful day and some of our family were visiting so [...]
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Curator’s Blog – April 2013
Well Easter has come and gone and the clocks have changed, all we need now is for the temperatures to climb, such a slow start to spring. This however has been a bit of a blessing as it has enabled us to get on with a lot of ground work and mulching prior to the [...]
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Curator’s Blog – 5 March 2013
Slowly but surely the heritage and history of the great Middleton Hall Estate is being revealed and interpreted. Summer archaeological digs having unearthed the site of the original Middleton Hall we are now making great strides in the understanding of how this amazing estate evolved. Turning our attention to the time of Paxton and latterly [...]
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Curator’s Blog – 26th February 2013
This winter has seen extensive works undertaken in the Garden. In particular we have taken the decision to revisit the plantings along the Broadwalk, partially in response to examining the initial planting plans and in part due to the fact that many of the freely seeding species have migrated from bed to bed dramatically reducing [...]
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Feathered Friends
Although I do like the snow by the time it went I was fed up with it. When we went to the National Botanic Garden of Wales this week it was blowing a gale and sheets of rain were blowing across the Garden and soaking anyone who was unfortunate enough to be out in it. [...]
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Garden Blog – Winter Wonderland
I had spent a couple of weeks putting decorations up in various rooms and decorating Christmas trees at the National Botanic Garden of Wales but it wasn’t until we arrived this week that it felt really Christmassy (Is that how you spell it?). The temperature had dropped and we had to scrape the ice off [...]
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It doesn’t seem that long ago that I was waxing lyrical about the snowdrops and now? Well, now it’s the autumn colours that are making the National Botanic Garden of Wales a site worth visiting. I was there yesterday, which was a fairly grey day, and I went out with my camera after we had [...]
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It was the most beautiful day of the summer so far when I was at the National Botanic Garden of Wales this week, so I was only too glad to go out to deliver some leaflets to various places. As I walked down to the Aqualab and then to the Gatehouse, the Garden was lively [...]
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