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Nant Y Bedd Garden
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About

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.

Booking is essential before visiting Click here to book your visit to Nantybedd.

Sue has been gardening here for 40 years, assisted over the past 20 or so years by 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 a treehouse and most recently another tree sculpture by the amazing Mick Petts

A wonderful development in 2019 was our selection as only one of ten Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) Partner Gardens  in Wales.  To be classed alongside the likes of the National Botanic Gardens of Wales, Aberglasney and Dyffryn Gardens is a great privilege  – and more than a bit scary!  Well, it was to start with, but after we won the Partner Garden of the Year 2022, maybe it isn’t. 

We’ve been lucky to have a number of film crews here, starting with BBC2’s Carole Klein in 2007.  2019 brought Alan Titchmarsh and his Love Your Garden programme. In 2021, we hosted BBC Gardeners World and Monty Don who did the links form here during their end of season special on Trees.  In 2022 we welcomed the Welsh-language S4C programme Garddio a Mwy.   Last year both ITV Coast and Country and Channel 4’s Caroline Quentin’s National Parks came to enjoy the peace and tranquillity of Nant-y-Bedd

In the press, most recently we’ve been featured in Gardens Illustrated and The Times and 2024 will bring a feature article in The Garden magazine, the flagship publication of the RHS.

You can find out so much more about us on our website at www.nantybedd.com or on Instagram @nantybeddgarden.

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Events

20th Sept 2024 - 20th Sept 2024

27th Sept 2024 - 27th Sept 2024

Garden Tours with SueTour of Nant-Y-Bedd Garden with SueEnjoy a tour of the award winning Nant-y-Bedd Garden with the creator Sue. Hear all about how the garden came into being and how it has evolved over the 40+ years of Sue’s stewardship.
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Facilities

Booking & Payment Details

  • Advance booking essential
  • Credit cards accepted (with charge)

Children

  • Children welcome

Property Facilities

  • Dogs not accepted (except guidedogs)

Target Markets

  • Accepts groups

Map & Directions

Road Directions

Nant y Bedd is to be found 4.5 miles up the road towards the Grwyne Fawr Reservoir, in the area known as Fforest Coal Pit, Abergavenny. It is a Dead End road, a 5 mile long Dead End!

From ABERGAVENNY or HEREFORD areas take the A465 Abergavenny to Hereford road and turn off into LLANFIHANGEL CRUCORNEY.

By the Skirrid Inn (in Llanfihangel Crucorney) turn down the hill (following signs for Llanthony), bear left at the bottom of the hill and continue for about a mile, passing under a railway bridge (13’6″ height limit). Turn left at the signpost for Fforest Coal Pit,  Partrishow and Llanbedr.

After a mile and a half you will arrive at Five Ways junction.  Take the road to the Grwyne Fawr Reservoir, passing the (Grade II listed) grey telephone box and continue over the river for 4.5 miles.

From CRICKHOWELL, turn up by the Fire Station and initially follow signs to Llanbedr.  Do not turn into Llanbedr, but follow signs to Fforest Coal Pit (sometimes just Fforest). There is also a red edged sign to Grwyne Fawr at one junction, follow this one not the Grwyne Fawr on the bigger fingerpost.  You will come to ‘the house in the middle of the road’. Bear left and left again down the hill and you will come to Five Ways Junction. Take the road to the Grwyne Fawr Reservoir, passing the (Grade II listed) grey telephone box and continue over the river for 4.5 miles.

Travelling from HAY on WYE it is probably easiest to approach from the Crickhowell direction via Talgarth.  The Llanthony valley is very narrow and can be extremely congested in Summer.

Nant-Y-Bedd

Type:Garden

Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, NP7 7LY
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Tel01873 890219

Opening Times

Season (29 May 2024 - 28 Sept 2025)
DayTimes
Wednesday - Sunday11:00 - 17:00

* Garden openings for 2024 will be every Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday from May 29th until September 28th and from 11.00am to 5.00 pm (last entry at 4.00pm). We will not be taking ad hoc bookings for any other day. RHS members (those with the * next to the members’ name) and Garden Organic members can use their cards for free entry on Wednesdays and Thursdays only. Booking is essential and is only via https://nantybedd.com/nantybedd/visit-our-garden/

We are continuing the success of the Garden Tour with Sue. A trip round Nant- y -Bedd is a fantastic experience in itself, but a tour round with garden creator Sue brings an added dimension. Hear all about how the garden came into being and how it has evolved over the 40+ years of Sue’s stewardship. These tours are only available on the Fridays that we are open, will start at 11.00 and last about two hours. Numbers are limited to eight to ensure the best experience. RHS and Garden Organic discounts do not apply to these tours.

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