Springtime at Bodnant Garden

Bodnant Gardens offers something for everyone.

 

A great garden offers something to enjoy during every season and Grade I listed Bodnant has 80 acres of formal gardens, woodland and panoramic mountain views to stir your senses. Find a walk that's suitable for you, and admire the beauty of the colourful planting schemes.

 

In early spring Bodnant explodes into colour. Magnolias, camellias and rhododendrons fill the terraces.  Bulbs and early perennials fill the garden beds and early wild flowers appear in the wild flower meadows.

 

The garden is especially famous for its Asian rhododendrons, including unique hybrids bred at the garden from the 1920s. Many of these unique varieties can still be seen in the garden today. Bodnant Garden is also home to five National Collections – Rhododendron forrestii, magnolias, embothriums (Chilean fire bush), eucryphias and Bodnant Hybrid rhododendrons.  

 

The garden has many areas to explore, the formal gardens and terraces and ponds, the Glades; the Dell with it's waterfall and river; the wildflower meadows and Furnace Hill and woodland.  Within the gardens there is a lot of birdlife, so take time to sit and watch and listen to the bird song.

 

There is a cafe and tea shop on site serving drinks, snacks and lunches, along with shops and a garden centre.