Garden Blog – Didn’t we have a lovely time the day we went to…..

It can sometimes be quite a job knowing what to do with visitors, can’t it?  We were in just that situation recently and decided to take them to the National Botanic Garden of Wales.  Our visitors live in Essex so they don’t get to Wales all that often and we thought it would be nice [...]

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Garden Blog - Spring is Sprung

Garden Blog – Spring is Sprung

We hadn’t been to the National Botanic Garden of Wales for the last two or three of weeks because we had been to the Canary Islands soaking up the sun – well someone’s got to do it, and we very kindly brought the sun back with us.  After I had finished my volunteer jobs this [...]

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Garden Blog – A Double Walled Gardener’s View

March started off raw, the starlings moving in crowded eddies at dusk, evenings beside a smoky wood burner, tying in roses during the day; but now the weather has turned generously warm and there is the scent of hyacinths –some were left over last year and got replanted around the tanks in the Double Walled [...]

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Garden Blog – Bloomin’ Lovely

 The volunteers at the National Botanic Garden of Wales do all manner of jobs, so when I said that I hadn’t been to Pont Felin Gat since the autumn and wanted to go, a couple of us were sent off on a fact finding mission to see what was happening down there. I was really [...]

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Garden Blog 16 - Raindrops falling on my head

Garden Blog 16 – Raindrops falling on my head

It was a really miserable day when we went to do our volunteering at The National Botanic Garden of Wales this week.  It often seems to be that way when we go – is someone trying to tell us something?  One of the ‘jobs’ I was going to do was to go and look at [...]

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Garden Blog 15 - A Hint of Spring

Garden Blog 15 – A Hint of Spring

Have you seen the snowdrops yet?  They are quite beautiful.  There’s something about their white simplicity that speaks of purity.  They look so clean, even though they bloom at the time of year when gardens on the whole look a bit mucky.  I was interested to read that snowdrops (Galanthus nivalis) are a source of [...]

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Garden Blog 14 - A Touch of Frost

Garden Blog 14 – A Touch of Frost

I hadn’t been to the National Botanic Garden of Wales for about a month, due to the bad weather, Christmas, New Year etc, so when we went there this week I was hoping to see signs of new life and I wasn’t disappointed.  There are flowers on some of the witch hazels and hellebores, the [...]

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