National Botanic Garden of Wales

Welcome to the National Botanic Garden of Wales. The first botanic garden of the new millennium is 568 acres of beautiful Carmarthenshire countryside, about an hour west of Cardiff. It is easy to get to but hard to forget.

There is so much to see here that you’ll need a full day, if not more, to see everything. Our major attractions are listed below, but as a rule, the ‘must sees’ for most of our visitors are The Great Glasshouse, and The Double Walled Garden, whilst nature lovers also want to know about Waun Las NNR.

The Ghost Forest

The most significant environmental art installation ever to come to Wales has taken root at the National Botanic Garden.

As ambitious as it is stunning, Ghost Forest is 10 giant hardwood tree stumps – highlighting the alarming rate of deforestation. The trees, which have been in Trafalgar Square and outside the Danish Parliament in Copenhagen, have found a new and permanent home in Carmarthenshire.

Fungi Exhibition

From Another Kingdom is the first major exhibition in the UK to focus on the fascinating world of fungi – and it is showing at the National Botanic Garden of Wales on from 19th March 2011 to 28th February 2014.

This interactive exhibition reveals the intimate details of fungi in a way they have never been shown before, challenging misconceptions and showing how they are vital to the survival of life on earth.

The touring exhibition, from Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh,  is in the display area of the Great Glasshouse which has been transformed into a labyrinth of themed spaces where visitors will come face-to-face with fungal diversity, myths and magic and the role fungi play in eco-systems and recycling.

Highlights include a forest of super-sized toadstools, glow-in-the-dark mushrooms and a version of Russian roulette involving deadly poisonous fungi