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Gardd Bodnant Bodnant Garden Welcome to our Winter Garden - a seasonal delight for the senses Gardd Bodnant Garden, Tal-y-Cafn, LL28 5RE 01492 650460 [email protected] www.nationaltrust.org.uk/bodnant-garden Our winter wonderland... and how to make your own Fill your garden with a rich palette of colour, texture and scent right through the season. Flowers: Plant winter blooming shrubs like rhododendron, camellia, mahonia and garrya, perennials such as hellebores, and a carpet of bulbs such as snowdrops, iris, cyclamen, early daffodils and scilla. Bark and stems: Make a statement with silky barked trees like acers, birch and cherry and with colourful stemmed dogwoods. Leaves: Add the bright, lush foliage of plants such as bergenia and euphorbia, swaying ornamental grasses and evergreen ferns. Berries: Provide a real splash of colour with berrying plants like skimmia and callicarpa. Scent: Nothing beats the winter blues like the perfume of sarcococca, daphne and hamamelis in the frosty air. Structure: Winter reveals the bare bones of a garden, which can be beautiful. Create layers of different shapes, forms and sizes – using trees, shrubs, perennials and bulbs. Create an oasis for wildlife There’s a lot we can do in our gardens to help wildlife through the winter: • Flowers all year round don’t just look great, they help pollinators. • Be untidy: Piles of leaves are important for hibernating animals and insects, and leaving seedheads provides them with food. • Plants with berries will feed hungry birds. • Hang feeders from your bare trees - and watch the birdlife come flocking! Found the inspiration…now find your plants Our neighbours at Bodnant Garden Centre sell a selection of stunning plants for winter interest including trees, shrubs and perennials. Many of their plants are propagated from the garden, so you can take a bit of Bodnant home with you. Bergenia purpurascens 'Helen Dillon' Prunus serrula Bodnant's Winter Garden flowering from December to March. Images © National Trust/Joe Wainwright Helleborus x hybridus Euphorbia characias Gaultheria mucronata Betula utlis 'Ramdana River' Calluna vulgaris Cornus alba 'Sibirica' Callicarpa bodinieri var. giraldii 'Profusion' Daphne bholua 'Jacqueline Postill' Camellia x williamsii 'Charles Puddle' Cyclamen coum Hamamelis mollis 'Nymans' Miscanthus sinensis 'Starlight' Blechnum chilense Iris 'Katharine Hodgkin' Mahonia x media 'Charity' Skimmia japonica Rhododendron Nobleanum
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Gardd Bodnant Bodnant GardenWelcome to our Winter Garden -a seasonal delight for the senses
Gardd Bodnant Garden, Tal-y-Cafn, LL28 5RE01492 [email protected]/bodnant-garden
Our winter wonderland...and how to make your ownFill your garden with a rich palette of colour,texture and scent right through the season.
Flowers: Plant winter blooming shrubs likerhododendron, camellia, mahonia andgarrya, perennials such as hellebores, and acarpet of bulbs such as snowdrops, iris,cyclamen, early daffodils and scilla.
Bark and stems: Make a statement with silkybarked trees like acers, birch and cherry andwith colourful stemmed dogwoods.
Leaves: Add the bright, lush foliage of plantssuch as bergenia and euphorbia, swayingornamental grasses and evergreen ferns.
Berries: Provide a real splash of colour withberrying plants like skimmia and callicarpa.
Scent: Nothing beats the winter blues likethe perfume of sarcococca, daphne andhamamelis in the frosty air.
Structure: Winter reveals the bare bones of agarden, which can be beautiful. Create layersof different shapes, forms and sizes – usingtrees, shrubs, perennials and bulbs.
Create an oasis for wildlifeThere’s a lot we can do in our gardens tohelp wildlife through the winter:
• Flowers all year round don’t just look great,they help pollinators.
• Be untidy: Piles of leaves are important forhibernating animals and insects, and leavingseedheads provides them with food.
• Plants with berries will feed hungry birds.
• Hang feeders from your bare trees - and watch the birdlife come flocking!
Found the inspiration…now find your plantsOur neighbours at Bodnant Garden Centre sell aselection of stunning plants for winter interest including
trees, shrubs and perennials. Many of their plants are propagated fromthe garden, so you can take a bit of Bodnant home with you.
Bergenia purpurascens 'Helen Dillon'
Prunus serrula
Bodnant's Winter Garden flowering from December to March. Images © National Trust/Joe Wainwright
Helleborus x hybridusEuphorbia characias Gaultheria mucronata
Betula utlis 'Ramdana River'
Calluna vulgaris Cornus alba 'Sibirica'
Callicarpa bodinieri var.
giraldii 'Profusion'Daphne bholua
'Jacqueline Postill'
Camellia x williamsii'Charles Puddle'
Cyclamen coum
Hamamelis mollis'Nymans'
Miscanthus sinensis 'Starlight'
Blechnum chilense
Iris 'Katharine Hodgkin'
Mahonia x media 'Charity'
Skimmia japonica
Rhododendron Nobleanum
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Winter Garden WalkThis short, accessible trail takes in 250 years of BodnantGarden’s history. The Winter Garden used to be anEdwardian rockery which was re-opened in December2012 after a 4-year renovation. Your support makes allour conservation work possible – enjoy your visit.
Laburnum Arch: Winter is a great time tosee the bare structure of the famous 140-year-old pergola walkway and watch ourgardeners at work pruning the plants.
From the Visitor Centre turn left on tothe Range borders and the garden exit. Thisarea used to be Victorian glasshouses and akitchen garden for Bodnant Hall. Take acloser look at the Parterre along the way.
Old Park gate: Loopback up the circular paththrough the WinterGarden to enjoy more ofthe planting (there are fiveshallow steps here).
View over the OldPark: We’re adding to thesnowdrop display in themeadow by planting everyFebruary. See our websitefor events details, anddrop by to give us a hand!
East Garden: From the bench view the Victorian upper garden - it's Round Garden, Parterre and formal lawnsintersected by stone steps and ballustrades created by Bodnant’s founder Henry Pochin and designer Edward Milner.
Top Lawn: Notice the old native trees, original plantings from the Georgian parkland. Spot the Sweet Chestnut(an honorary native) with its split trunk, an injury from a lightning strike decades ago.Extend your walk from points 5/6, across the lawn in front of Bodnant Hall. See the Bath, an exotic poolside garden, with itsplants fleeced-up against frosts. A little further on, take in stunning winter views of the Carneddau Mountains from the terraces.
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NT Shop, Garden Centreand Craft Units
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Puddle Garden: Developed in 2001 anddedicated to three generations of Bodnanthead gardeners Frederick, Charles andMartin Puddle (1920-2005.)
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