Welsh Gardens

North Wales

Half the interest of a garden is the constant exercise of the imagination. You are always living three, or indeed six, months hence...To be content with the present, and not striving about the future, is fatal Alice Morse EarleHigh Glanau Gardens, in Monmouthshire,...

To be born in Wales, not with a silver spoon in your mouth, but with music in your blood and with poetry in your soul,is a privilege indeed.Brian HarrisJenny and Roger Lloyd’s garden at Highfield Farm is a garden defined by its plants. There are over 1,400 varieties...

Thy gardens and thy gallant walksContinually are green;There grow such sweet and pleasant flowersAs nowhere else are seen. AnonLlanover is set in the Usk Valley beneath the Black Mountains in Monmouthshire, South Wales. The 18-acre garden is set within a beautiful...

Mid Wales

“When, at Veddw in Monmouthshire, Wareham replants the lines of vanished hedgerows with box and fills the enclosed spaces with grasses and hardy perennials, she is linking the land-use of the past with the aesthetic of the lordly parterre. By giving expression to...

Our England is a garden, and such gardens are not made, By singing:- ‘Oh, how beautiful!’ and sitting in the shade,While better men than we go out and start their working livesAt grubbing weeds from gravel paths with broken dinner knives.Rudyard KiplingWyndcliffe...