Bees, bugs and bug-eating plants – Digwyddiadau

Spotting Bumblebees in West Wales

Do you enjoy watching bumblebees in your garden, your community or other green space?

Then join the Bumblebee Conservation Trust‘s Clare Flynn in the National Botanic Garden and find out how to identify them and turn your sightings into valuable data – as part of the trust’s Beewalk Citizen Science project.

From 1-4pm on Wednesday June 20^th, come and enjoy talks and walks around the Garden.

Find out more about the project at www.beewalk.org or email Clare: clare.flynn@bumblebeeconservation.org

Special evening opening of the Garden

Join us for a Midsummer’s Day treat with this special evening opening of the Botanic Garden, Thursday June 21^st, 6pm-9pm.

There will be a National Garden Scheme cake and savouries stall plus hot and cold drinks in the Great Glasshouse. There will be talks and tours and live music provided by the Yeller Dog String Band. Freshly picked produce from the Garden will also be on sale.

Admission is £5 for adults, under 16s are free and dogs on lead are welcome.

Bug-eating plants put on a show

Hungry insect-chomping plants go on show at the National Botanic Garden of Wales, on Saturday and Sunday June 23-24.

The Carnivorous Plant Society is hosting the event which features a large display of living carnivorous plants, stands for expert advice and plant care, children’s activities, expert talks and plants for sale – so you can buy your very own Venus fly trap!

Promotions officer for the Carnivorous Plant Society, Ian Salter said: “This event offers an excellent opportunity for the expert, the keen and the curious to browse our displays of these fascinating and unusual plants, find out how to grow them and buy some to take home. It is also another very good reason to visit this magnificent garden.”

For details about this and other events taking place at the National Botanic Garden email info@gardenofwales.org.uk or call 01558 667149.

The Carnivorous Plant Society was founded in 1978 and is a charitable organisation dedicated to the promotion of carnivorous plants both in the wild and in cultivation, through conservation and education. For more information, visit their website www.thecps.org.uk

Chwilio am Wenyn yng Ngorllewin Cymru

Ydych chi’n mwynhau gwylio gwenyn yn eich gardd, eich cymuned neu ardaloedd gwledig eraill? Yna, ymunwch gyda’r Bumblebee Conservation Trust a Clare Flynn i ddarganfod sut i adnabod gwenyn a troi eich darganfyddiadau i mewn i ddata gwerthfawr – fel rhan o’r prosiect Beewalk Citizen Science.

1-4yp dewch i fwynhau teithiau a sgyrsiau drwy’r Ardd.

Dysgwch mwy am y prosiect drwy fynd i www.beewalk.org neu ebostiwch Clare: clare.flynn@bumblebeeconservation.org

Yr Ardd yn agor yn hwyr am un noson

Ymunwch gyda ni am noson ganol Haf arbennig lle bydd yr Ardd ar agor gyda’r hwyr. Bydd stondin cacennau a bwyd gan y National Garden Scheme a diodydd poeth ac oer ar gael yn y Ty Gwydr Mawr. Bydd sgyrsiau a teithiau a cherddoriaeth byw gan y Yeller Dog String Band. Bydd cynyrch o’r Ardd hefyd ar werth.

Cost mynediad: £5 i oedolion, am ddim i blant o dan 16 mlwydd oed ac mae croeso cynnes i gwn ar dennyn. 

Sioe planhigion sy’n bwyta pryfed

Bydd planhigion llwglyd sy’n cnoi ar bryfed yn cael eu harddangos yng Ngardd Fotaneg Genedlaethol Cymru ar Ddydd Sadwrn a Dydd Sul Mehefin 23-24.

Mae’r Gymdeithas Planhigion Cigysol yn cynnal y digwyddiad sy’n cynnwys arddangosfa fawr o blanhigion fyw cigysol, stondinau am gyngor arbenigol ar ofal planhigion, gweithgareddau i blant, sgyrsiau arbenigol a phlanhigion ar werth – er mwyn i chi brynu magl Gwener eich hun!

Dywedodd swyddog hyrwyddo am y Gymdeithas Planhigion Cigysol, Ian Salter: “Mae’r digwyddiad hwn yn cynnig cyfle gwych i arbenigwyr, rheini sy’n frwdfrydig a’r chwilfrydig i bori drwy ein harddangosfeydd o’r planhigion diddorol ac anarferol hyn, cael gwybod sut i’w tyfu a phrynu rhai i fynd adref.  Mae hefyd yn rheswm da iawn arall i ymweld â’r ardd ysblennydd hon.”

Am wybodaeth am y digwyddiad hwn, neu unrhyw ddigwyddiad arall sy’n cael eu cynnal yn yr Ardd Fotaneg Genedlaethol e-bostiwch info@gardenofwales.org.uk neu ffoniwch 01558 667149.

Sefydlwyd y Gymdeithas Planhigion Cigysol yn 1978 ac mae’n sefydliad elusennol sy’n ymroddedig i hyrwyddo planhigion cigysol yn y gwyllt, drwy gadwraeth ac addysg.  Am fwy o wybodaeth, ewch i’w gwefan www.thecps.org.uk