Tours, Talks & Exhibitions

TOURS & TALKS

We run a variety of free talks and tours of the Garden, mainly during the peak holiday periods.

These include introductions to the Great Glasshouse and Double Walled Garden. They normally last about 10 minutes.  We also have a team of volunteers who provide longer tours of the Great Glasshouse, the Double Walled Garden and other parts of the Garden such as the Apothecaries Garden, the Physicians of Myddfai, the Estate and Welsh Country Walks.

Our Gatehouse will alert you to the choices of tours and talks on the day of your visit and the Events pages will show you future tours and talks which may be of interest to you.

EXHIBITIONS

The Physicians of Myddfai Exhibition , Bioverse (an interactive educational exhibition housed in the Great Glasshouse), Simply Plants and the Bee Garden Viewing Gallery are permanent exhibitions.  We also have many temporary art exhibitions in our Gardens Art Gallery. These cover a wide range of plant and environment related themes, in many different forms of art media.

The Physicians of Myddfai is situated in a converted stone barn at Millennium Square, it links Carmarthenshires famous tradition of plant medicines and today's science of plant-derived pharmaceutical products. Its exhibits celebrate the gentle approach to plant medicines and natural healing which Wales shares with other world regions and highlights the importance of plant diversity in safeguarding this resource.

Tucked into an inner wall of the Great Glasshouse is Simply Plants, an interactive exhibition designed especially for children. Through beautiful video sequences, bubbling graphics and thought-provoking interactives, they can have fun learning about the ingenious life cycle of a plant. Beginning with the seed, they will follow the root system and leaf structure till they reach a plant's own system of movement - its flower and fruit.