Bodnant Garden: The Laburnum Arch Above the Conwy
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Bodnant Garden: The Laburnum Arch Above the Conwy
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Henry Davis Pochin, a Victorian industrial chemist, bought the Bodnant estate above the Conwy valley in 1874, and five generations of his family have developed the garden; it was given to the National Trust in 1949, and the family carried on managing it. It covers 80 acres of hillside: formal Italianate terraces, a rocky outcrop called the Dell, a gorge garden, woodland and a waterfall, looking across to the Carneddau. Its Laburnum Arch is the longest in the UK and flowers in May and June.
Required Activities
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of 4
Walk Bodnant Garden, the 80-acre garden founded in 1874, and find the Laburnum Arch, the longest in the UK
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of 4
Find the plants of the garden's five National Collections, including magnolia, embothrium and eucryphia
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of 4
Walk down the Italianate terraces and into the Dell
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of 4
Visit the Bodnant Welsh Food Centre at Tal-y-Cafn
Walk Bodnant Garden, the 80-acre garden founded in 1874, and find the Laburnum Arch, the longest in the UK
Find the plants of the garden's five National Collections, including magnolia, embothrium and eucryphia
Walk down the Italianate terraces and into the Dell
Visit the Bodnant Welsh Food Centre at Tal-y-Cafn
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The Laburnum Arch, the longest in the UK, flowers in May and June.
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