Aberglasney Gardens

Just love those ancient Yews. Wonderful pics Hywel., thanks.

what a wonderful Blog Hywel, and fantatsic photos, what a beautiful place to visit,

Lovely Blog Hywel, beautiful place to visit

we went to Llandudno for a long weekend and visited Bodnant on sunday clear blue skies which was a bonus, have you been its an amazing place too....

Thanks everyone.

I haven't been to Bodnant Pam. It is over 100 miles away lol

Beautiful pictures - what a lovely place to go and see :))) That Yew tunnel was so great !

it took us 3 hours from the midlands but with all the other things in the area to see and do well worth it. I got confused though Hywel as when we went on the Welsh Highland railway we passed Aberglaslyn.....

Fascinating photos, Hywel ..
Did you buy any plants ?

Thanks Paul. I wanted to walk through the yew tunnel but it was fenced off lol.

Hi Pam. Lots of places in wales begin with 'Aber...' and also 'Llan...' It can be confusing if the names are similar. I'm glad you enjoyed Bodnant.
I live in the south west :o) The roads are not very good between the north and south.

Thanks TT :o)
No I didn't buy any. Didn't see anything I wanted. They only had what you'd get in a normal garden centre. Disappointing really.

Bodnant seemed to sell plants that grow in the gardens but then the NT can probably afford the labour

Wonderful place. These are the places I like visiting myself Hywel. I do it on my own and have visited nearly everything within a hundred mile ratio from home. I hope to visit more as soon as I have the time and take pictures to load here and to me website.

Another holiday at home blog. Thank you Hywel. I can't see us ever getting there but you do take photographs of things I would want to look at so it is as good as a holiday for me.

Lovely blog Hywel love the walled garden and that Yew Tunnel

Yes it was a lovely blog Hywel. I really enjoyed looking at your photos, especially the walled gardens and that wonderful Yew tunnel, which is amazing!

Wonderful blog Hywel , I think the yew tunnel is awesome

I love that yew tunnel Hywel must have taken years to grow it and train it! A very beautiful place & blog.

Aberglasney Gardens is a great place for a wonder....my friends son Joseph has just taken over as head gardener so we can expect some changes over the next year or so....thanks for the pics..:-)

Lovely blog and photos, Hywel. Love the blue planting.

Thank you all. I'm pleased you enjoyed Aberglasney.

Sandra it looked as if some changes were already being made. I hope your gardener friend will make lots of improvements to it. It must be a very exciting job for him.

Lovely pictures Hywel and a nice place to wander around, like others I loved the Yew Tunnel wouldnt children just love to play in there;0))

lovely place to visit Hywel....

The cloisters and the yew tunnel were my favourites....it looks very well maintained and with a new gardener taking over I expect there will be some changes afoot as well.

Being close to home for you there will likely be opportunity to visit again and see what the new gardener has up his sleeve to change or modify the garden. You got some good pictures despite you saying it was overcast on the day.

Great blog, Hywel, how I would love an old brick wall like those in your photos. They set everthing off so beautifully. Amazing tunnel too, glad you enjoyed your visit.

brilliant pic's Hywell!
Thanks for shearing, i'm on the look out for things to do/weekends away with ma pa n nanna, last year we went to the eden centre which was nice but my fave was the lost gardens of Heligan, it also has lots of nooks and crannies and places to wander, beautiful gargens and lots of other goodies.
This year we're going to Kew as ma pa n nanna haven't been before. Now your giving me ideas for next year! You said you'd been before, what time of year would you say was best? I'm gonna have a google and see what else is in the area that we could do, or do you have any other suggestions?
Thanks again.

Thank you everyone for your comments.

Fudgy, The National Botanic Garden of Wales is just a few miles from here aswell

Smashing blog Hywel, I love walled gardens and still spend my lottery winnings on having one, lol, I`m adding this to my favs for future reference, hoping to talk my oldest girl into a trip in the future..
Lovely photo`s ......

Thank you :o) I'm sure you'll enjoy it of you go there.

Lovely blog Hywel. These reclaimed gardens are fascinating. Thank goodness for the Aberglasney Trust. They must have been very busy getting this historic garden back to such a well restored state. Shame we can't travel as we used to due to OH infirmities. This garden would be top of my list.

lovely blog hywel and beautifull pictures to, really enjoyed them :o))

Oh Just like my pad!!! ha ha, what a lovely place, I love visiting houses and gardens, we went to the secret garden in Broadstairs, last week, it was super, but the weather again spoilt it so I didnt take any pics, lovely blog, thank you for sharing it.

Thanks for your comments.
Sorry OH can't travel Dorjac. I understand what it's like to be unable to travel.
Thanks Sandra
Patricia pitty it rained. It would have been nice to see photos of that garden

What a lovely place, thanks for putting this on. Do you mind me asking if it's expensive to go in? The reason I ask is because we were taken to a garden recently which still needs quite a lot doing to it but they still charged what I consider to be full price, perhaps I'm out of touch with prices?
This looks well worth a visit, I like cloisters too and those walled gardens are lovely.

I think I paid £7 or £7.50 I can't remember lol memory failing now ;o) but it was one of those. ...... That was for senior citizens and disabled people. I thought it was a lot.
Prices in the caffe were very expensive aswell I thought - over £2 for a slice of cake ! and not much of a choice either :o( but everywhere is like that now.

I agree with you Hywell. We went to a farm place near home where we could see Meerkats, otters and an eagle owl, but mainly for children. To get a family in, even on a family ticket was very dear. Food was expensive and ices hyped up in price. They were all outside eating own food. To go in a local country park that was once free, its £2 for an hour!!!!! The art club used to go a lot. Painting and sketching flowers and trees and scenery. It stopped us in our tracks and stopped a lady whose poorly husband enjoyed the company too....couldn't afford it.

Carers go in free though. When we took my mother in a wheel chair a few yrs ago I went in free because I was her carer.
But otherwise I thought it was expensive. And it isn't that big. An hour or two is enough to see it all.

We had to pay £6 each and I would say half of the garden isn't really in a state for visiting, some lovely trees and the Borders could be really nice but it needs lots more attention, they have 4 full time gardeners and some volunteers, doesn't quite make sense to me?

I try to think of the piece of cake as a treat or I would never buy one! I never buy cakes from the supermarket.