Two New Hives at Gliffaes I bet that headline got you going, well its true, we have two queens living at Gliffaes now. In the beehives at the bottom of the walled garden. Susie and I started keeping bees some years ago when the man who used to keep several hives here passed on. We [...]

Gliffaes Hotel Gardens – something very special Spring, summer, autumn or winter there is always something worth seeing in our grounds. Snowdrops, camellias, daffodils and bluebells in spring give way to rhododendrons and azaleas in May and June. Later in the summer the long grasses make for a wonderful contrast with the almost flawless lawns. [...]

There has been a fair bit going on in the garden this week. Last Sunday we opened the gardens as part of the National Garden Scheme which helps raise money for various charities but in particular the Macmillian Cancer Care Trust. This meant a flurry of activities; straitening the edges of the lawns and paths, [...]

Goodness me we had a lot of rain at the end of March begining of April and the river rose fast and furious, putting paid to any ideas our guests had of fishing over Easter. You would think that everything in the river; fish, eels, inverterbrates etc would all end up in the Bristol Channel, [...]