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“You open the gate to a garden as you would open the first page of a new book, with the hope of living a moment of happiness in the discovery of a place, a story, a human adventure, a time to dream, away from the bustle of everyday life, dream and escape……a moment outside of time”
Christina Shand came to give us a talk in 2024; Between a Bog and a Hard Rock. She explained how she and her husband David started this garden from complete wilderness in 1996, and how, over the years since then, she was inspired to create the gardens, despite dealing with various inhospitable environments. Expansion followed slowly but steadily. Problems included lack of top soil, abundance of rock, marsh, bog and underlying thick blue clay. All of these Christina tried to turn to advantage and the result is Dyffyrn Fernant, in Pembrokeshire; a garden belonging to its rural surroundings––modern yet attached to the ancient past––naturalistic in its planting as well as exotic and stylised in parts.
The Gardening Club visited on July 209th, and found a very wide variety of environments, and a
delightful selection of plantings, as well as a lovely wild area to walk through. The abundance of seating places was inviting and the library was a great idea; if you come on your own on a sunny afternoon, having taken your time and to investigate, you could choose a volume and sit in the sun with coffee (and cakes, on our part), and just enjoy the surrounds...and the other visitors, also doing the same. Dog are welcome on leads, and the club paid for the entrance fee...perhaps the only drawback is that it is now one of the more expensive gardens in the area.
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