In our quest to keep discovering our new
home region of North Wales, we hit up Google and tried to come up with an idea
for something to do that was fairly close to our home in Harlech. After searching for things to do in
Porthmadog, I stumbled across Plas Brondanw Gardens. After reading that it was the home of the
man responsible for the design of nearby Portmeirion, I bundled LT into the car
and forced him to drive there.
Plas Brondawn Gardens is owned and managed
by the Clough Williams-Ellis Trust and is the estate where he lived with his
wife. The estate is open to the public
(obviously….we didn’t break in) and admission is £4 per person for adults.
The gardens are located just outside the
lovely village of Garreg and, on approach; we spotted brightly coloured wrought
iron gates, which immediately reminded me of Portmeirion.
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| The Orangery |
The gardens are a fair size, extremely well
maintained, and a riot of beautiful colours.
In between the manicured head rows and shaped bushes are iron gates and
barriers, which are all painted with a distinctive blue and yellow theme.
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| Clough Williams-Elis House |
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| The main house from the gardens |
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| Warning: Extreme Flower Close Up... |
In addition to walking around the gardens
and checking out the varieties of flowers and plants, we paid a visit to the
Café, where the perpetually hungry LT indulged in the most amazing pork and
apple roll. Seriously, people, it was so
good that when I asked to taste it, I could see tears welling in his eyes at
the mere thought of losing out on a single bite. I mean he even took a photo of it. He’ll probably use it as the new wallpaper
on his phone…
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| You can't beat a bit of company in the garden. |
After prising LT away from the Café, we
headed up to the tower, which is on the estate, but in a different location
from the main gardens. You can climb to
the top of the tower, but do watch your step as it’s quite a tight space and
the ceiling is quite low. We were fine
because we’re too short for this to have any impact, but normal size people
would definitely risk knocking themselves out on some stone. And that’s definitely not the kind of
souvenir you want to take home, is it?
Plas Brondanw is open on a seasonal basis,
until September 30th. These
are some of LT’s photos from the day. I’ve
left out his lunch. You can thank me later.
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| Rhododendrons? Am I right?? |
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| Stone slab commemorating the rebuilding of the main house |
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| Climb up the Tower for some amazing views |
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