made cakes pastries and sandwiches with a variety of teas, coffees and juices make a popular menu. The nursery is also open selling herbs, alpines and perennials.

Beneficiaries include; Macmillan Cancer Relief, Marie Curie Cancer Care and other charities specified in the “Yellow Book”.

In addition to the NGS charities above, the 2010 openings will support

Parkinsons Disease Society

The garden is also open by appointment, please give us a ring before you set off.
01938 500370

Tan-y-Llyn is a three and a half acre garden set in small hills above the Vyrnwy Valley in Mid Wales. Work started on the garden fifteen years ago.

It is fairly high at 550 ft but the site slopes south and is relatively sheltered. In fact almost all of the garden is on a slope and this has been a major factor in its design.

We are surrounded by small hills, fields, woods and plantations. The aim has been to design a garden which slips quietly into the landscape by borrowing views, blurring the transition between garden and wider landscape and by following the contours for paths and borders. Nearest the house is a large collection of plants in

containers, a raised herb garden and scree bed. Informal mixed borders give way to a thorn grove and pond, while short, rabbit grazed grass gives way to meadow and buttercup. Furthest from the house is an orchard and wilderness framed by forest.

The garden has been made from simple materials: wood, gravel, grass, hedges and woven willow. The structure too is simple: soil has been cut to form paths along the existing contours, grass is mown at different heights, and hedges cut to form new shapes with portholes for views.

The gravelled herb area becomes an attractive tea garden on open days. Home

Admission £3.00
in aid of NGS

Garden open 2010:

!st and 2nd May
5th and 6th June
3rd and 4th July

2pm to 5pm

(open at other times
by appointment)