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Bodnant Garden (NT) Tal-y-Cafn, Colwyn Bay, Conwy.
Photo © NTPL / Ian Shaw
The 32 hectare garden at Bodnant is one of the finest in the world, situated above the River Conwy and looking across the valley towards the Snowdon range. There are dramatic colours throughout the season, with fine collections of rhododendrons, magnolias and camellias in early spring, and the spectacular laburnum arch, a 55yd tunnel of golden blooms from mid-May to early June. Herbaceous borders, roses, hydrangeas, water lilies and clematis delight throughout the summer, with superb autumn colours during October. The garden is in two parts. The upper part around the house consists of the Terrace Gardens as well as informal lawns shaded by trees. The lower portion, known as 'The Dell', is formed by the valley of the River Hiraethlyn and contains the pinetum and wooded valley, stream and wild garden below.
In March and April masses of daffodils and other spring bulbs make a very colourful display. Pride of place amongst the shrubs is held by rhododendrons, magnolias and camellias, which flower from March until the end of June. The famous laburnum arch, embothriums and many of the azaleas are at their best at the end of May/early June. In summer the Terrace Gardens are very colourful with herbaceous borders, roses, water lilies, clematis and unusual wall shrubs and climbers. Eucryphias and hydrangeas are a special feature. National Collections of Embothrium, Eucryphia, Magnolia (spp.) and Rhododendron forrestii.
Clyne Gardens Mill Lane, Blackpill, Swansea, West Glamorgan.
Photo © 2007 City and County of Swansea
A large 20 hectare well-kept garden in a broad valley overlooking Swansea Bay, with an outstanding collection of rhododendrons, including the National Collections of Triflorum and Pieris. Fine bog gardens and many other rare and interesting trees and shrubs.
Colby Woodland Gardens (NT) Amroth, Narberth, Pembrokeshire.
Photo © NTPL / Andrew Butler
Attractive woodland gardens (8-acres) with a fine collection of rhododendrons and azaleas. The early 19th century house is not open but the owners kindly allow access to the walled garden during visiting hours. There are walks through secluded valleys along open and wooded pathways.
The Dingle Crundale, Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire.
A three acre plantsman's garden; rose garden (with 150 varieties of old-fashioned roses,) formal beds, scree, herbaceous border, unusual shrubs and water garden. Fine specimen trees with rhododendrons and azaleas. Woodland walk and excellent views.
Dewstow Gardens Dewstow House, Caerwent, Monmouthshire.
Photo © 2005 www.dewstow.co.uk
Dewstow gardens are the recently rediscovered gardens and landscapes created around the turn of the century by "James Pulham & Sons" landscapers, Rock Builders and Garden Designers.The gardens had been buried around the 1940s and 50s and although some where in a very poor condition, other parts remained as good as the day it was built. Most of the repairs have now been completed during a massive restoration operation which began in 2000. The gardens contain many ponds and rills but interestingly, underground grottoes, tunnels and sunken ferneries.
The rock gardens are made up of a mixture of real stone and faced stone using various types of Pulhamite. The site is approximately 7 acres and we hope to renovate as much as we possibly can and have landscaped and replanted the gardens in the past 3 years. The gardens are open for general viewing on Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays and Bank Holidays from April 1st 2007 through the Summer.
Dyffryn St. Nicholas, South Glamorgan.
One of the largest landscaped gardens in Wales, mainly designed and created by Thomas Mawson, a leading landscape architect of the time, between 1906 and 1912, for Reginald Cory, a notable horticulturalist with a particular interest in newly introduced plants from eastern Asia. The garden has a wide range of features, including an arboretum, and many interesting plants.
Erddig (NT) nr. Wrexham, Flintshire.
Photo © NTPL / Rupert Truman
A large walled garden restored to its 18th century formal design with Victorian parterre and yew walk; also contains the National Collection of Hedera. Surrounding parkland with extensive woods.
National Botanic Garden of Wales (NT) Llanfairpwll, Anglesey.
Photo © 2007 National Botanic Garden of Wales
Working with the National Museum of Wales and the Countryside Council for Wales, the Garden is collecting the seeds of, and propagating, some of Wales's rarest plants. These include Britain's rarest and most critically-endangered trees, the Ley's Whitebeam (Sorbus leyana) and a hawkweed that only grows naturally on rocks around a single waterfall in the Brecon Beacons.
The Garden's estate is managed as a low intensity organic farm. Its flocks of sheep and herds of Black Welsh cattle are controlled to conserve and increase the range of many rare and nationally declining native wild plants and fungi. These include the greater butterfly orchid, whorled caraway and waxcap fungi.
The Great Glasshouse, the Garden's iconic visitor attraction which houses plants from the Earth's Mediterranean climatic regions, doubles up as a refuge for some of the world's rarest plants. An example of this is McCutcheon's Grevillea (Grevillea maccutcheonii). Five years ago, there were only 10 of these small Western Australian shrubs left in the wild, all growing together in one small patch. One of these plants was micropropagated at King's park Botanic Garden in Perth, Western Australia and sent to the National Botanic Garden of Wales in 1999. Visitors to the Great Glasshouse saw its lovely red and yellow flowers for the first time in 2003.
Plas Newydd (NT) Llanfairpwll, Anglesey.
Photo © NTPL / Nick Meers
A fine spring garden and Australasian arboretum with an understorey of shrubs and wild flowers, as well as a summer terrace and, later massed hydrangeas and autumn colour. A woodland walk gives access to a marine walk on the Menai Strait.
Plas Yn Rhiw (NT) Rhiw, Pwllheli, Gwynedd.
Photo © NTPL / Martin Trelawny
The ornamental gardens have flowering trees and shrubs, divided by box hedges and grass paths, rising behind to the snowdrop wood.
Powis Castle (NT) Welshpool, Powys.
Photo © NTPL / Andrew Butler
The world-famous garden, overhung with enormous clipped yews, shelters rare and tender plants. Laid out under the influence of Italian and French styles, the garden retains its original lead statues, an orangery and an aviary on the terraces.
National Collections of Aralia and Laburnum.
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