Llanover Garden

Llanover is set in the Usk Valley beneath the Black Mountains in Monmouthshire, South Wales. The 18-acre garden is set within a beautiful park and features a walled Round Garden, two Arboreta and extensive herbaceous borders and lawns. The Rhyd-y-Meirch (Ford of the Stallions) stream flows the entire length of the garden, tumbling into ponds, over cascades and beneath flagstone bridges.

Llanover Garden was established in the late 18th century by Benjamin Waddington. The present owner, Elizabeth Murray is the seventh generation to live at Llanover. Visitors can admire the magnificent London Plane trees planted over 200 years ago and an avenue of sweet chestnut trees. Successive generations have planted spring bulbs and encouraged wildflowers to flourish beneath the trees.

Between 1960 and 1999, trees noted for their superb autumn colour, rare shrubs and early flowering magnolias were planted by Elizabeth’s father, Robin Herbert, a former President of the Royal Horticultural Society.

Since 1999, Elizabeth and her husband, Ross, have continued to plant, plant and plant! The herbaceous borders are constantly reviewed, new areas devised, and the arboreta extended.

Llanover is now a Grade II listed historic garden but also a dynamic and constantly evolving environment.

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