The next meeting is on Monday 1st July. Doors open from 7pm for a 7.30 start. Come early for a coffee and a chat. Visitors are welcome, entry is £8, with under-18s free.
The garden at Nant-y-Bedd sits comfortably within its landscape and welcomes the spontaneity of self-seeders and wildflowers. But it is also a productive organic vegetable and fruit garden, a haven for wildlife and a tranquil space to relax. This talk explores how this balance is achieved and how this could translate to your own garden.
Nant-y-Bedd is a 10 acre organic garden and woodland located at 1200 feet up in the Black Mountains in the Brecon Beacons National Park in Wales. Sue Mabberley has been gardening here for 40 years, assisted over the past 20 or so years by her husband Ian. Slowly but surely the garden has grown and evolved with various projects being added over the years, including the natural swimming pond, the shepherd’s hut, tree-sculpture Cedric and most recently, the treehouse.
Nant-y-bedd is a Garden Organic and RHS Partner Garden, winning the 2022 RHS Partner Garden of the Year Award. In 2022 Sue also achieved one of her biggest wishes – for the garden to appear in Gardens Illustrated magazine.
Sue is not a trained horticulturalist, but has a First Class Honours degree in Environmental Systems and has worked professionally for a range of public conservation organisations in Wales. Her passion and life’s work however, is the creation of the garden at Nant-ybedd and promoting sustainable and wildlife-friendly organic gardening through opening the garden to the public and leading workshops.
Our plant stall, which raises funds for the Percy Picton Memorial Fund, always needs additional donations of good quality, interesting plants. It’s really helpful if they come labelled with a name and price, though any unsold plants do need to be taken back home at the end of the meeting. Please bring some money to spend on the plant stall and a bag … we need to keep the floor of the village hall free of compost!
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