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New 2008 - Garden open under the National Gardens Scheme

February 23, 2008

Contact/Visiting You are more than welcome to contact with comments and suggestions. If you want to enquire about any of the species photographed here, please do not hesitate to ask. This garden is private and not officially open to the public - please respect this fact. In fact this year, 2008, the garden is open by appointment only under the National Gardens Scheme-NGS - the famous 'The Yellow Book' as part of gardens open to charity. Details about visiting this garden can be found under the Cambrian Coast section p. 591, no. 41. More details about the National Gardens Scheme can be found on their website. The major problem is that the site is on a steep slope. The paths are uneven and narrow. Large groups of people cannot be accommodated under any circumstances. It is situated in a small village near the River Dwyfor, not far from Criccieth, Gwynedd. Feel free to use any of the images on this site for non-commercial use, but it would be courtesy to acknowledge where they originate from. For commercial use, you must not use any part of this site without permission.

Embothrium coccineum Lanceolatum group general view	Solanum crispum 'Glasnevin'	*Polygonatum multiflorum*	General view near house	Acer shirasawanum 'Aureum' and Sciadopitys verticillata

View from top of garden by the hives - Cader Idris in the far distance	Again, but looking over the village and the distinctive Clough designed Capel Moriah	View over the Hen Felin and fields of Aberkin Farm	Lower path on side looking upwards 27 Feb. 04	Middle section with Daffodils beginning to flower 27 Feb. 04
The person who has created this website and is responsible for this garden is a botanical taxonomist by profession, but for his sins has spent most of his working life teaching and has been responsible for organising and teaching several subjects on an Access to Higher Education course in a local Tertiary College. This is a "second" chance for adults to primarily go onto University. 2006 - he is now 'retired' and spends most of his time gardening, fishing and updating this site. The website has been designed in Macromedia Dreamweaver 8, Xara Webstyle version 3.1 and 4, together with WS FTP pro and SiteXpert. One day, time permitting, a complete listing of wild and cultivated plants growing in this garden will be produced. In the meantime, the Site Map will give some idea of the range grown. The photographs have until the 26th February been taken by a 2.5 megapixel Olympus C-2500L digital camera. Five years ago this was a top of the range digital camera with many useful facilities especially the ease with which macro photography could be executed. However a Fuji S7000 6 megapixel has now been invested in, until Minolta produce a true digital SLR. This is rumoured to take place later this year. This means a collection of Minolta lenses to go with the Minolta Dynax 9 and the Dynax 9 does not have to be sold (at a considerable loss!) to go over to another system such as Canon or Nikon. Buying digital cameras is worse than buying a computer. 2006 - a Dynax 7D and a Dynax 5D are used with a Tamron 180mm macro lens. Minolta have now gone into liquidation and the Dynax range are now being developed by Sony. A Benbo tripod is used for stability.
Usage statistics for this site. A thank you to all those who have used this site and I hope you have found something of interest - come back sometime as the site is being constantly updated - and a big thank you to those who have taken the time to fill in the guest book - much appreciated. Some of the comments that people have made about this garden and website: "Magical", "Sophisticated", "An exceptional website chronicling a garden in Wales". The Good Web Guide has described the site in a review of personal gardening web sites as "A charming personal web site of interest to all gardeners". "This is my type of garden" - someone well known in horticultural circles. "Probably one of the best ...... gardens in the UK" - ...... would give the game away!
"A garden has a curious innocent way of consuming cash while all the time you are under the illusion that you are spending nothing." - Esther Meynell.