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This weekend should have seen our annual opening for the National Garden Scheme, but the COVID-19 has put a firm end to that, so this week and next we are posting a series of images on Instagram and Facebook to help you to get your ‘fix’ of our lovely garden. We are following the route that Sue takes in her Candide Gardening audio tour, and today we reach day 5. We do… Read More
Continuing our series of short videos so that you can see a little bit of what you might have seen if we were able to open. After we purchased the woodland and riverbank, we cleared years of fallen branches, matted with groves of bramble, all along the bank. Without any planting, we now have a few rapidly growing patches of bluebells, establishing themselves with glee in the shade of the hazels. The… Read More
Continuing our theme of posting short videos to make up for the fact that you won’t be able to visit for quite a while yet, we hope that this little clip of Sue’s sailing boat on the pond might make your lockdown a little easier. The boat is quite amazing in it’s ability to keep itself going. Once launched I had no hand in it’s movement at all – there’s a short… Read More
We were due to hold one of Sue’s “excellent” (participant’s quote, not ours!) Compost Making workshops at the beginning of June, but that isn’t now going to happen due to the virus. So we’ve made this short video to whet your appetite for some date in the future. This is just a very quick run through of the why’s and wherefore’s of making a really wonderful compost which you can use in… Read More
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 and 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,… Read More
Having just climbed out of the pond after my second swim of the Easter weekend – a little bracing, but most satisfying – it struck me that only a fortnight ago I wouldn’t have even contemplated a dip. Having sailed though March with barely a tremor weather-wise, dear old Mother Mature came and bit us on the bum on the 4th April. In common with the higher parts of Wales, we copped… Read More
We’ve had a fantastic year – busy, but well worth it. To start with, we welcomed nearly 900 visitors to the garden, most of them in small groups of two or three, but also the BIG charity weekend for the National Garden Scheme when 233 came streaming through the gates! We also did the Herefordshire (don’t ask!) Gardens in the Wild weekend of which more in Sue’s blog following on soon….! We… Read More
We thought we would let those of you who don’t follow us on Instagram or Twitter have a quick look at what’s great in the garden and some of the lovely comments in the Visitors Book over the past few weeks. My heart feels at ease, my breath deeper. I am so grateful for the love and care felt in this place. Pure Magic! Thank you for your beautiful, creative and awe-inspiring… Read More
Yes, strange though it may seem Ian was spotted wearing a rather natty summer suit last week. The reason was what could be described as ‘The Heir meets The Hairy’. Confused? Ian is the Hon. Treasurer for the National Garden Scheme (NGS) in Gwent and as such was invited to meet HRH The Prince of Wales on one of his Wales Week visits, along with the other Gwent officers and some from… Read More
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