Bodnant Gardens

‘When Victorian industrialist Henry Davis Pochin bought Bodnant at auction in 1874 it was an estate with walled garden, woods and plantations, but it was Pochin's grand vision which shaped the garden into the world renowned one which we know today.

Pochin enlisted the skills of landscape designer Edward Milner to develop the formal Victorian shrub garden around the house, including the famous Laburnum Arch. He also sculpted the sloping valley sides down to the river, planting North American conifers and creating pathways to form the romantic dells and water gardens.’ National Trust