Caws and effect

Caws and effect

The National Botanic Garden of Wales is focusing on bird-watching over the weekend of February 16-17 with the help of experts from RSPB  Cymru and the British Trust for Ornithology. There will be two guided walks per day on the Saturday (16th) and Sunday (17th)  around the Garden and the Waun Las National Nature Reserve. [...]

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Family fun

Family fun

Youngsters can spring into action with a host of fun activities and FREE entry at the National Botanic Garden of Wales this half term (Feb 11-15). There’s a chance to get sowing and growing; concocting potions and lotions; and making lovely things for your own garden, with the help of gardeners, craft-makers and herbalists. There [...]

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Songs, strings and the secrets of trees

Songs, strings and the secrets of trees

There’s music in the air at the National Botanic Garden of Wales this St David’s Day – as well as FREE entry for all. It’s free admission for everyone on Friday March 1st in honour of our patron saint and there’s a chance to have a go on a harp, watch a lovespoon being carved [...]

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Feathered Friends

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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Winter wonder

Winter wonder

Lowri Evans Celtic Women Winter Concert Series Sunday February 3, 2013 1pm, National Botanic Garden of Wales Described as ‘a major talent in any language’, singer-songwriter Lowri Evans is one of Wales’s best kept secret. This is surely set to change in 2013 with the announcement that accordion player Andy Cutting and renowned acoustic and [...]

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The Dragon Tree

The Dragon Tree

Kindly funded by an Individual Mainline Grant from The Arts Council of Wales, Award Winning Singer/ Song Writer & Author Cheryl Beer has been released from her usual role as a freelance community based Creative Director for 12 months, thus enabling her to tour the West Wales Coastline inventing  a new ‘story for the folk’ [...]

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Top Quality Food on the Menu

Top Quality Food on the Menu

Local producers are the stars of the show at the National Botanic Garden of Wales January Food Fair. They will be laying on an absolute feast for visitors on Saturday and Sunday January 26-27 with tempting treats to suit all tastes. For meat-eaters, there is longhorn beef, wild boar, mutton, pork and squirrel; with beetroot [...]

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Good with wood

Good with wood

Toy-makers, wood-turners and lovespoon-carvers are taking over the Great Glasshouse and Marquee for a weekend of demonstrations and displays at the National Botanic Garden of Wales in Carmarthenshire. The Garden’s Woodcraft Weekend takes place next Saturday and Sunday, January 19-20 – and admission is just £2 for adults and free for kids. Organiser (and exhibitor) [...]

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Classic line-up for fair

Classic line-up for fair

The January Antiques Fair at the National Botanic Garden of Wales is getting bigger and better. Organised by Derwen Fairs, this year’s event – on Saturday and Sunday, January 12 and 13 – takes place in the Great Glasshouse and the regency-era Principality House. Last year’s fair broke all records at the Garden with more [...]

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Garden Blog - Winter Wonderland

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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