Anglesey’s Hidden Gardens

Situated between Menai Bridge and Beaumaris on the Isle of Anglesey, the Hidden Gardens is an award-winning project to restore the grounds of the 200-acre Plas Cadnant Estate. Work started on restoring the grounds in 1997, with the first stage being to rescue the house and lodges, dating back to the early 19th century, after…

Bodnant… a garden to wonder at

A National Trust property near Tal-y-Cafn in the Conwy Valley, Bodnant Garden was founded in 1874 and developed by five generations of one family before being gifted to the National Trust in 1949. The garden spans 80 acres of hillside and includes formal Italianate Terraces, informal shrub borders, a gorge garden, a number of noteworthy…

Gardens above Hell’s Mouth

Plas yn Rhiw is an early 17th-century manor house in Y Rhiw, Gwynedd, in north-western Wales. Located at the base of Mynydd Rhiw, the estate overlooks the beach of Porth Neigwl (Hell’s Mouth), Cardigan Bay and the Llyn Peninsula and consists of a small Tudor mansion, a large garden and woodland. It is the only…