Series Repack (Originally Posted Dec 2016).
S4C Wales 6 November 2016 - Welsh with embedded English subtitles
Aled Samuel returns with a second series featuring Welsh gardens open to the public. Today he visits the gardens at Picton Castle in Pembrokeshire. They extend to about 40 acres and include a walled garden and a Mediterranean garden created in about 1800. The gardens of Wyndcliffe Court in Monmouthshire were designed by Henry Avray Tipping in the Italianate Arts and Crafts Style. They remain substantially unaltered since Tipping created them.
Ep02 - Aled Samuel goes to the Conwy Valley to visit the gardens at Gwydir Castle, which are amongst the very few in Wales accorded Grade 1 listed status. They represent an important example of the formal Renaissance garden of the Tudor and Stuart periods. Then he travels to the South West to the garden at Upton Castle in Pembrokeshire. At Upton there are several gardens within a garden which in all extends to about 35 acres.
Ep03 - Aled Samuel crosses the Menai Bridge to visit Plas Cadnant on Anglesey. Gardening essentially began at Cadnant in 1804, when John Price chose a highly scenic position for his new Georgian house. The walled garden was used as a kitchen garden and orchard. Aled then goes to Abbey Cwmhir Hall, where in 1834 Thomas Wilson set about building a Hall and creating gardens and pleasure grounds.
Ep04 - Aled Samuel visits Veddw garden in Monmouthshire, which is set in the wonderful countryside of the Welsh border above Tintern. There are two acres of ornamental garden and two acres of woodland. The original garden design of Bodysgallen Hall near Llandudno dates from 1678. Robert Wynn laid the principal garden out in Dutch fashion.
Ep05 - Aled Samuel visits the gardens of St Fagan's National History Museum in Cardiff. As he finds out more about the grand formal gardens of the castle and the small, more intimate cottage gardens, he also learns about the history of Wales and its people.
Ep06 - Aled Samuel visits two very different gardens. The gardens of Chirk Castle in North east Wales have clipped yew hedges, herbaceous borders, rock gardens and terraces, and are surrounded by 18th century parkland. Plas yn Rhiw is at the tip of the Llyn Peninsula. Set away from prevailing winds and benefiting from the microclimate, the garden lies below the house and is terraced into the slope, divided by hedges into several small compartments.
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