Give Yourself a Treat this Weekend

Give Yourself a Treat this Weekend

Would you like to own a genuine piece of Welsh-made hand-crafted treasure? Do you feel like you deserve something new and beautiful in your life? Then beat a path to the National Botanic Garden of Wales on Saturday and Sunday May 19-20 for the second of its 2012 ‘Four Seasons Craft Fairs’. . Amongst the [...]

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Special Offer - Subsidised School Visits

Special Offer – Subsidised School Visits

Two great new initiatves will help Welsh schoolchildren come to the Garden. The first is to help Key Stage 2, 3 and 4 pupils come here to learn about sustainable development. We have received funding from SFIA to enable four lucky schools, within community first areas, to visit the Garden in the autumn term 2012. [...]

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Round the world in the Great Glasshouse

This is the time of year in the Great Glass House at the National Botanic Garden when every few feet you have to stop, admire and exclaim.  The variety and range of the plants housed there is just superb.  I’ve always loved the Great Glass House but it just seems to get better and better.  [...]

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A rare scarlet bloomer at the National Botanic Garden of Wales has flowered on what has been a big weekend for ‘scarlets’. This striking Banksia coccinea (or ‘Scarlet Banksia’) has burst into bloom the same time that Scarlets legend Stephen Jones played his last game for the club. The record-breaking former Wales captain bowed out [...]

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Top marks for Garden

Top marks for Garden

The readers of Which? Magazine have given a top rating to the National Botanic Garden of Wales. A survey of more than 4,000 subscribers of the Consumers’ Association’s magazine saw the Carmarthenshire attraction rated at 79%, based on overall satisfaction and the likelihood to recommend. This put it level-pegging with the Eden Project in Cornwall [...]

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