Bodnant Garden: reflection, Lily Terrace
The pool on the Lily Terrace in Bodnant Garden, on a partly cloudy afternoon in early May. The reflection of Bodnant Hall can be seen, along with some of the water lilies for which the terrace is named.
Bodnant Garden is an 80-acre National Trust garden located above the Conwy Valley, east of the Afon Conwy / River Conway (near the village of Eglwysbach, also spelled Eglwys-Bach or Eglwys-Fach ["Little Church"]). The name of this garden in Welsh is Gardd Bodnant.
Bodnant was established as a Victorian garden by landowner Henry Davis Pochin (1824-1895), who worked with landscape architect Edward Milner (1819-1894) to design the space, making the most of the rich, partly sheltered woodland-friendly setting. The garden was then further developed by successive members of the McLaren family, whose heads have held the title Baron Aberconway, together with successive members of the Puddle family of head gardeners. The Italianate terraces were developed between 1904 and 1914. Henry McLaren, 2nd Baron Aberconway (1879-1953) turned the garden over to the National Trust in 1949 -- although the Bodnant estate, both house and garden, remain the property of Lord Aberconway.
(Information from the National Trust website and the official guide to Bodnant; website last consulted 1 March 2020.)
[Bodnant Garden house pool reflection 2012 may 3 p; P1000157]
Bodnant Garden: reflection, Lily Terrace
The pool on the Lily Terrace in Bodnant Garden, on a partly cloudy afternoon in early May. The reflection of Bodnant Hall can be seen, along with some of the water lilies for which the terrace is named.
Bodnant Garden is an 80-acre National Trust garden located above the Conwy Valley, east of the Afon Conwy / River Conway (near the village of Eglwysbach, also spelled Eglwys-Bach or Eglwys-Fach ["Little Church"]). The name of this garden in Welsh is Gardd Bodnant.
Bodnant was established as a Victorian garden by landowner Henry Davis Pochin (1824-1895), who worked with landscape architect Edward Milner (1819-1894) to design the space, making the most of the rich, partly sheltered woodland-friendly setting. The garden was then further developed by successive members of the McLaren family, whose heads have held the title Baron Aberconway, together with successive members of the Puddle family of head gardeners. The Italianate terraces were developed between 1904 and 1914. Henry McLaren, 2nd Baron Aberconway (1879-1953) turned the garden over to the National Trust in 1949 -- although the Bodnant estate, both house and garden, remain the property of Lord Aberconway.
(Information from the National Trust website and the official guide to Bodnant; website last consulted 1 March 2020.)
[Bodnant Garden house pool reflection 2012 may 3 p; P1000157]