Half-term fun at the Garden – Plannu, tyfu, hwyl!

Learn how to grow plants to make a super smoothie! Meet a giant stick insect! And join a potato-growing class!

You can find out about all this and more at the National Botanic Garden of Wales this half term.

Along with sowing-and-growing sessions, we’ll also be looking for signs of spring and finding out how to attract butterflies and bees in our ‘Get Gardening’ family activities, which run from Saturday February 23^rd to Sunday March 3^rd. You can also meet and hold a giant stick insect and other creepy-crawlies in the Great Glasshouse!

There are lots of fun and games, a daffodil hunt plus arts and crafts action to suit all ages, too. And, on the Sunday, Wednesday and Friday, there are FREE Potato Growing Courses. For information on how to book these Growing the Future classes, please visit the Garden’s EventBrite page.

Make sure you dress up in honour of our patron saint on Friday March 1^st, when there will be music from the Constellation Big Band and harpist Shelley Fairplay.

The Botanic Garden’s Activities for All – activities for families, children and adults – run from 11am to 3pm every day of half term. The Garden is open from 10am to 4.30pm (last entry is 3.30pm).

Admission to the Garden and the British Bird of Prey Centre is £14.50 (including Gift Aid). Under 5s are free and parking is free for all. There is NO additional charge for any of our family activities.

For more information about this and other events at the Garden, call 01558 667149, visit https://botanicgarden.wales or email info@gardenofwales.org.uk

Plannu, tyfu, hwyl!

Dysgwch sut i dyfu planhigion i wneud y smwddi perffaith! Cwrdd â phryfyn pren enfawr! Ac ymuno mewn gyda dosbarth tyfu tatws!

Gallwch ddarganfod mwy am rain a fwy yng Ngardd Fotaneg Genedlaethol Cymru’r hanner tymor yma.

Byddwn hefyd yn edrych allan am arwyddion o’r gwanwyn, a darganfod sut i ddenu gloÿnnod byw a gwenyn fel rhan o’n Gweithgareddau Garddio, sy’n rhedeg o ddydd Sadwrn 23 Chwefror tan ddydd Sul Mawrth 3ydd. Gallwch hefyd cwrdd â phryfyn pren enfawr â chreaduriaid eraill  yn y Tŷ Gwydr Mawr!

Bydd yna lawer o hwyl a gemau, hela cennin Pedr a llawer o gelf a chrefft sydd yn addas ar gyfer pob oed. Ac ar y Dydd Sul, Dydd Mercher a Dydd Gwener, bydd cyrsiau tyfu tatws AM DDIM. Am fwy o wybodaeth ar sut i archebu eich lle yn nosbarthau Tyfu’r Dyfodol, ewch i dudalen EventBrite yr Ardd.

Ac ar Ddydd Gwener, Mawrth 1, cofiwch wisgo’n arbennig i ddathlu’n nawddsant – Dewi Sant, lle fydd cerddoriaeth gan Fand Big Constellation a’r delynores Shelley Fairplay.

Mae Gweithgareddau Gyda’n Gilydd – gweithgareddau i deuluoedd, plant ac oedolion – yr Ardd Fotaneg yn rhedeg o 11yb hyd at 3yp bob dydd o’r hanner tymor. Mae’r Ardd ar agor rhwng 10yb a 4.30yp (gyda’r mynediad olaf am 3.30yp).

Mae mynediad i’r Ardd a’r Canolfan Adar Ysglyfaethus Prydain yn £14.50 (gan cynnwys yn cynnwys Cymorth Rhodd). Mae plant dan 5 oed am ddim ac mae parcio am ddim i bawb. Nid oes unrhyw dâl ychwanegol am unrhyw un o’r gweithgareddau.

Am ragor o wybodaeth am hyn a digwyddiadau eraill yn yr Ardd, ffoniwch 01558 667149, ewch i <https://garddfotaneg.cymru/> neu e-bostiwch info@gardenofwales.org.uk

The Growing the Future project at the National Botanic Garden of Wales aims to champion Welsh horticulture, plants for pollinators, the protection of wildlife and the virtues of growing plants for food, fun, health and well-being.  This project has received funding through the Welsh Government Rural Communities – Rural Development Programme 2014-2020, which is funded by the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development and the Welsh Government.