The Nation’s Favourite Garden?
If you follow us on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter or get our bi-monthly Newsletter, you should already know that Nant y Bedd Garden has been shortlisted as one of the top 30 gardens in the
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competition to find “The Nation’s Favourite Garden” !! How about that?
The competition seeks to find the nation’s (that is England and Wales) favourite National Garden Scheme garden.
There’s over 3500 gardens who open for the scheme, so to be in the top 0.85% is rather heartening, to say the least.
And to make it better we didn’t apply to be in this; we were nominated by a person or persons unknown.
The prizes are to be split along NGS regional lines, so we are up against two others from Wales – Hurdley Hall, in Churchstoke and Ysgoldy’r Cwrt in Tregaron – and two from England – Wollerton Old Hall in Market Drayton and Stockton Bury near Leominster – in the Wales and the Marches section.
Looking down the overall list there’s a lot of ‘Halls’, ‘Manors’, ‘Courts’, ‘Old Vicarages’ and ‘Priorys’ plus a little-known place called Great Dixter!!! Then there’s little us, so you can see we are rather pleased to be in such company.
Voting is open from now until the end of September at www.theenglishgarden.co.uk/ngs and one lucky voter will win a near £5000 cruise on the Danube (courtesy of Viking Cruises).
Scan this code to go straight to the voting page, then scroll down to Wales and the Marches. 
Please do vote for us. If you haven’t been yet, we are open every Friday to Sun from 2pm until 6pm until the end of September (which coincides nicely with the closing date of the votes!)
Let’s see if we can get rid of that ? in the title of this blog!
UPDATE
Well we did get rid of that ? Although you won’t find it on the magazine or NGS sites, we are officially or unofficially, Wales’ Favourite Garden. As runner-up in Wales and the Marches we had the highest votes of any garden in Wales! “Sorted!”
Nant y Bedd 
voted! Trudy Harpham PhD Emeritus Professor at London South Bank University, UK
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