Aberglasney was once the subject of a television series entitled ”Aberglasney: a Garden Lost in Time”, which we really enjoyed. It was a four part series which followed the restoration of its dilapidated gardens, shown back in 1999.
We visited the garden when restoration had only just begun and several times since. Strangely this time all the restoration of the house and garden looked complete. In fact parts of the garden were being redeveloped again where plantings had failed.
We enjoyed finding this very sociable bench and the huge grassed area which was a good foil for the tall stately conifers nearby.
We were interested in the planting areas we passed on our way in. The wall was beautiful with ferns growing on the vertical surface plus the sound of falling water.
The Yew Tunnel featured in the TV programme as it was difficult to restore because of the age of the yews. It was just one of the many archways, tunnels and gateways around the property and garden.
Coffee and cake were soon required and we enjoyed some great views from our table to add enjoyment to our refreshments.
After our refreshment break we made our way along a long deep border alongside a stone wall that would lead us to the Old Piggeries, the Sunken Garden and finally the Jubilee Woodland Garden.
The next half hour was spent enjoying another coffee break before we set off to look at the walled garden. This walled garden is divided into two ,’Upper’ and ‘Lower’. The Lower Walled Garden was still mostly productive, growing produce, fruit, veg, herbs and cut flowers.
The decorative borders in both sections were full of asters in lots of different colours all attracting so much wildlife mostly bees and hoverflies.
We left the Lower Walled Garden through a wooden door in the stone dividing wall and entered the Upper Walled Garden which was composed of mixed borders around the edges and central circular beds.
We soon came to the time to return to the car but there was one more special place to see before we left, an unusual garden called the ‘Ninfarium’, half built into the buildings.
This will be considered in a second post about Aberglasney.
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We visited Aberglasney a few years ago with our Welsh friends Maurice and Jude Selden who live not far away. Maurice, as you might imagine, took some great photos that dya.