A Winter’s Trail

Take a magical mystery tour around the Garden

Gatehouse Entrance

Great Glasshouse

Double Walled Garden

Waun Las

Stable Block

4 Kisses Would you like to see how people pucker their lips to kiss? In our Stable Block courtyard you’ll find a sculpture made from the casts of people’s lips. Maybe it’ll inspire you to kiss someone you love.

1 Bee Garden During the summer we can have over half a million honeybees flying around the Garden. You can see them going in and out of our bee hives from the safety of our Observation Hut. As you walk around the Garden, have a look at the plants that bees are visiting. Do you think they prefer yellow or red flowers?

7 Echo Spot Would you like to help make the world a happier place? Yes? Well go up the steps from layout of the old hall, onto the Viewing Platform. Here, use this picture on the right to find the ‘central eye’ of the cobbles. Stand here and say out loud how you are going to cheer up the world – you should hear something surprising.

2 Dipping Pool In the centre of the Double Walled Garden you’ll find a pond. Can you see the silver fishes under the water? Well, if you throw a silver coin into their pond, they’ll let you make a wish (to make your wish come true you mustn’t tell anyone what you wished for).

10 Healing Stone Come and touch the Preseli bluestone – it’s the same type of stone that forms a ring inside Stonehenge. The ancient Celtic people believed Preseli bluestones were healing stones so if you’re feeling a bit delicate or even grumpy, go give it a hug.

9 Otter We get otters in our lakes. Every few months, an excited visitor will tell us they’ve seen one playfully rolling or quietly moving in and out of the water. But we have no photographs. Can you be the first person to photograph our equivalent of the Loch Ness Monster?

8 Welsh Black Bull Impress your friends with your bravery – have yourself photographed next to this magnificent beast of a sculpture. Even better, go and have a look for real Welsh Black cattle on our Waun Las NNR, just down the hill from here.

6 Luminous Mushrooms There’s a fantastic exhibition inside the Great Glasshouse. Have a look for the flashing lights that say ‘Amazing Fungi’ and go inside. Here you’ll find a magic place, full of fascinating fungi related stuff. But can you find the mushrooms that glow in the dark?

3 The Lady of the Lake Go into the Apothecary’s Hall (it looks like an old barn) and look for this plaque on the wall. Now try and spot the difference between the two ladies. In the legend of the Physicians of Myddfai, the man who could spot the difference got to marry the woman he fell in love with.

5 Fairy Woods Hidden amongst the trees are signs of fairy tea party. Can you find all 5 tea cups up in the trees? Look out for doors into another world. Who do you think lives behind them? Keep your eyes and ears peeled and you might even spot a fairy or two…