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NATIONAL GARDENS SCHEME
LOCAL GARDENS OPEN FOR CHARITY
Do come and visit one of our beautiful gardens, you will have a wonderful afternoon with delicious tea and cakes and
your admission ticket will have helped the cancer caring charities including Macmillan, Marie Curie and Help the
Hospices and our guest charity this year the MS Society. We also have a number of gardens that open for private visits
for groups of friends or societies so why not get together with friends and give the garden owners a ring. Discover
more at www.ngs.org.uk or pick up our 2016 Powys leaflet at Welshpool TIC. We are now looking for new gardens to
open for us next year: do give me a ring if you think you might be interested in helping us raise money for our charities.
Thank you.
Susan Paynton, County Organiser Tel: 01686 650531
Sunday 28 August 2-5pm
Cwm-Weeg, Dolfor, Newtown SY16 4AT Adm £4, chd free
2½ acre garden set within 24 acres of wildflower meadows and bluebell woodland with stream centred around C15
farmhouse (open by prior arrangement). Formal garden in English landscape tradition with vistas, grottos, sculptures,
lawns and extensive borders terraced with stone walls. Translates older garden vocabulary into an innovative C21
concept. Under cover area for refreshments if wet. House open by arrangement. Featured in a number of TV
programmes. Partial wheelchair access. . Home-made teas
Sunday 4 September 1-4.30pm
Pont Faen House, Farrington Lane, Knighton LD7 1LA 1-4.30pm Adm £3.50, chd free
Colourful ½ acre garden, full of flowers, surrounds house on edge of town. Paths through floriferous arches and
gazebos lead from shady, ferny corners to deep borders filled with a large range of colourful perennials, annuals, 40
varieties of roses, rhododendrons, azaleas and hydrangeas. Water features and a fish pond. Enjoy the views of the hills
beyond from many seats in this flat garden. Sept; full of colourful flowers, alstroemerias, rudbeckias, inulas. Featured in
local publications. disabled parking in garden. Homemade teas
Sunday 11 September 2-5pm
Maesfron Hall,Trewern,Welshpool SY21 8EA. Adm £4 chd free 4m east Welshpool on A458
Georgian house (partly open) built in Italian villa style set in 4 acres of S facing gardens on lower slopes of Moel-y-
Golfa with panoramic views of The Long Mountain. Terraces, walled kitchen garden, tropical garden, restored Victorian
conservatories, tower and shell grotto. Newly restored hanging gardens down rock face below tower. Woodland and
parkland walks with a wide variety of trees. Some gravel, steps and slopes
Dogs on short leads welcome. Wheelchair access Home made teas. Featured
in Welsh Country Magazine
GARDENS OPEN by ARRANGEMENT
Fraithwen, Tregynon SY16 3EW. Adm £3.50 chd free Open
September and October
Sydney Thomas: 01686 650307
1½ acre established garden with herbaceous borders, rockeries and WELL DONE to Liz & Aled Roberts who along with their
ponds. Planted with rare plants for yr-round interest. Plants in flower children Peter and Rose, opened up their house in the
every day of the year: spring bulbs and alpines, alstroemeria Pentre recently for a tea party to support Macmillan
collection, lilies in garden not pots, vegetable plot and newly Cancer Research and raised over £150.
refurbished pool. Partial wheelchair access. Some steps, gravel and
slopes. Wheelchair access, dogs allowed, plants for sale refreshments
Featured in Welsh Country Magazine
NATIONAL GARDENS SCHEME
LOCAL GARDENS OPEN FOR CHARITY
Do come and visit one of our beautiful gardens, you will have a wonderful afternoon with delicious tea and cakes and
your admission ticket will have helped the cancer caring charities including Macmillan, Marie Curie and Help the
Hospices and our guest charity this year the MS Society. We also have a number of gardens that open for private visits
for groups of friends or societies so why not get together with friends and give the garden owners a ring. Discover
more at www.ngs.org.uk or pick up our 2016 Powys leaflet at Welshpool TIC. We are now looking for new gardens to
open for us next year: do give me a ring if you think you might be interested in helping us raise money for our charities.
Thank you.
Susan Paynton, County Organiser Tel: 01686 650531
Sunday 28 August 2-5pm
Cwm-Weeg, Dolfor, Newtown SY16 4AT Adm £4, chd free
2½ acre garden set within 24 acres of wildflower meadows and bluebell woodland with stream centred around C15
farmhouse (open by prior arrangement). Formal garden in English landscape tradition with vistas, grottos, sculptures,
lawns and extensive borders terraced with stone walls. Translates older garden vocabulary into an innovative C21
concept. Under cover area for refreshments if wet. House open by arrangement. Featured in a number of TV
programmes. Partial wheelchair access. . Home-made teas
Sunday 4 September 1-4.30pm
Pont Faen House, Farrington Lane, Knighton LD7 1LA 1-4.30pm Adm £3.50, chd free
Colourful ½ acre garden, full of flowers, surrounds house on edge of town. Paths through floriferous arches and
gazebos lead from shady, ferny corners to deep borders filled with a large range of colourful perennials, annuals, 40
varieties of roses, rhododendrons, azaleas and hydrangeas. Water features and a fish pond. Enjoy the views of the hills
beyond from many seats in this flat garden. Sept; full of colourful flowers, alstroemerias, rudbeckias, inulas. Featured in
local publications. disabled parking in garden. Homemade teas
Sunday 11 September 2-5pm
Maesfron Hall,Trewern,Welshpool SY21 8EA. Adm £4 chd free 4m east Welshpool on A458
Georgian house (partly open) built in Italian villa style set in 4 acres of S facing gardens on lower slopes of Moel-y-
Golfa with panoramic views of The Long Mountain. Terraces, walled kitchen garden, tropical garden, restored Victorian
conservatories, tower and shell grotto. Newly restored hanging gardens down rock face below tower. Woodland and
parkland walks with a wide variety of trees. Some gravel, steps and slopes
Dogs on short leads welcome. Wheelchair access Home made teas. Featured
in Welsh Country Magazine
GARDENS OPEN by ARRANGEMENT
Fraithwen, Tregynon SY16 3EW. Adm £3.50 chd free Open
September and October
Sydney Thomas: 01686 650307
1½ acre established garden with herbaceous borders, rockeries and WELL DONE to Liz & Aled Roberts who along with their
ponds. Planted with rare plants for yr-round interest. Plants in flower children Peter and Rose, opened up their house in the
every day of the year: spring bulbs and alpines, alstroemeria Pentre recently for a tea party to support Macmillan
collection, lilies in garden not pots, vegetable plot and newly Cancer Research and raised over £150.
refurbished pool. Partial wheelchair access. Some steps, gravel and
slopes. Wheelchair access, dogs allowed, plants for sale refreshments
Featured in Welsh Country Magazine
