Gardens: Llanover House and Rare Plant Fair near Abergavenny

Event Details

Start Date Sunday, 22nd of September 2024
End Date Sunday, 22nd of September 2024
Start/End Time 11:00 - 16:00
Near Abergavenny
Categories Gardens, History & Heritage, Social
Groups Gardens
Approx Distance 1 Miles
TerrainEasy - mostly on well made paths and over flat grassy areas. The garden is long and narrow with paths on either side of streams and ponds, which can be crossed by flagstone bridges. The paths are mostly grass or gravel. The main drive is smooth tarmac. The garden has some slight inclines and many grass or gravel paths which unfortunately can make pushing manual wheelchairs hard work in some places.

Visit these lovely gardens and browse the stalls at Llanover House's Rare Plant Fair. The 18-acre Grade II listed garden, set within a beautiful park, features a walled Round Garden, two Arboreta and extensive herbaceous borders and lawns. The Rhyd-y-Meirch (Ford of the Stallions) stream flows the entire length of the garden, tumbling into ponds, over cascades and beneath flagstone bridges.

Llanover Garden was established in the late 18th century by Benjamin Waddington, the great-great-great-great grandfather of the present owner, Elizabeth Murray. Visitors can admire the magnificent London Plane trees planted over 200 years ago, and the unusual trees and shrubs planted between 1960 and 1999 by Elizabeth’s father Robin Herbert CBE VMH, a former President of the Royal Horticultural Society.

For more details, visit: https://www.rareplantfair.co.uk/our-fairs/2024-llanover-house-nr-abergavenny/

Admission £8