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Cae Hir tel: 01570 470839 Area: Wales |
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| Visitor Information | www.caehirgardens.com -- email: caehirgardens {at} googlemail.com |
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Cae Hir |
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| Opening Days and Hours | |||
Easter - October; every day, Open Bank Holidays; 10am - 5pm |
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| Parties
/ Coaches: Yes |
Groups
/ Coaches need Appointment: Yes Viewing outside opening hours can be arranged. Groups welcome. |
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House
Open for Viewing: No |
National
Garden Scheme days: No |
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| Best
Times of Year to Visit: From mid May to mid July |
To
see: All areas. Colour themed gardens, Bonsai garden, Semi-wild areas with ponds |
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| Admission Prices | |||
| Adult/Over 60s £5 Child (6-16) £1 Group reductions apply |
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| Onsite Facilities | |||
| Parking:
Yes Lavatories: Yes Disabled Access: Yes |
Shop:
Yes Plants for Sale: Yes Lunches: Yes |
Teas:
Yes Light Refreshment: Yes Picnics: Yes |
Dogs
Allowed: Yes On Lead only: Yes Special Events: Yes |
| Other
Facilities: Disabled access to part of the garden. Charity openings. Tea Room with both indoor seating and outside patio area, serving a delicious selection of home-made goodies. Events throughout the Season. Small gift shop selling local crafts and garden souveniers. The book "A One Man Job (if not I'm a Dutchman)" was written by Wil Akkermans detailing, in short anecdotes, the adventure of moving his family from his native Holland to West Wales in order to follow his dream of creating a garden. Available to buy in our gift shop. |
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| Garden Features | |||
| Local slate stone work. Sub gardens including an informal Yellow garden and more formal Red, Blue and White gardens. Bonsai corner showing off Wil's native bonsai trees. Delightful Semi-Wild Water and Wildlife Garden complementing the natural meandering stream bordering the bottom of the garden. RHS Partner Garden. |
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| Description of Garden | Designer:
Wil Akkermans |
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| This six acre garden was created, and is solely maintained by, the owner. The owner's objective has been to find the right balance between wild and cultivated to achieve the natural look and, in the setting of this garden, this is essential. Although the gardens have been extensively aired on television, radio and in print, they are perhaps not seen as typically British, possibly because the owner stems from a long line of Dutch nurserymen whose nurseries have held sway there for over 200 years. Apart from the extensive, though informal, herbaceous beds there are many semi-hardy shrubs, such as Chilean fire bush and cordylines and a good selection of ornamental trees including prunus, sorbus and eucalyptus. Glorious rhododendrons set the garden ablaze in Spring. Hedging, from a variety of species such as yew, rose, beech, lonicera and privet abounds. There are formal ponds and small natural lakes. Set in the beautiful Welsh countryside, the natural look, which includes many wild plants in the design, is particulary appealing and appropriate, without ever seeming unkempt. |
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| History of Garden | |||
| Started in 1985 and first opened in 1989 on the centenary of the owner's father's birth. The owner was previously a French teacher but it is apparent that gardening was in his blood and he triumphantly succeeded in turning four, partially marshy, fields that were previously used for rough grazing, into this extraordinary garden - entirely by himself. | |||
| Nearby Wales Hotels, Facilities & Amenities | |||
| Hotels
& Accommodation: Falcondale, Lampeter Ty Mawr, Ciliau Aeron Granell, Llanwnen |
Restaurants: Same, plus several more, eg Vale of Aeron, Felinfach |
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| Inns & Pubs: Black Lion, Lampeter Fish and Anchor, Llanwnnen |
Villages / Towns
/ Sightseeing: Glorious countryside, Market towns of Lampeter and Newcastle Emlyn, Coastal Towns of Aberaeron and Aberystwyth. Welsh Botanical Gardens and Aberglasney Gardens both less than an hour away |
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