Image Galleries

This is a new picture gallery for the Friends of The Frelinghuysen Arboretum. Click on the title of one of the albums below to open it where you may then browse the pictures.

We welcome pictures from all our friends and visitors -- send any you would like to see here to webmaster@arboretumfriends.org.

Wales Trip - Bob Hemsen - Day 7 Cistern Tintern Abbey Cistern Tintern Abbey, a 12th century, 1131, monastery that fell into ruin with the dissolution of monasteries by Henry VIII. Note the people in the lower left of image 4 for scale
Wales Trip - Bob Hemsen - Day 6 St. Fagan's Museum Pictures of St. Fagan's Museum.
Wales Trip - Bob Hemsen - Day 6 Drffyn Gardens Dyffryn Gardens beds were stripped clean of any plantings. The pictures don’t clearly show how much of the place was just empty planting beds. Two items of interest first the limerick and second a hat shop window. Drffryn garden has some sort of protected newt and this pond has VHS cassette tapes floating in it to help them breed. We don’t remember how they came up with this idea but the pool had about a dozen cassettes floating in the water.
Wales Trip - Bob Hemsen - Day 5 Aberglasney Gardens Aberglasney Gardens Carmarthenshire tour with the head gardener. An amazing garden story driven by this man. Massive transformation with strategic planning that brought in over a million pound sterling on a funding request, has 20 plus college students coming through for experience, called Penelope Hobbhouse suggested an addition to her design and lived to tell about it. Enormous energy and enthusiasm the group really wanted to stay much longer. The last picture is of Langharne Castle, one of the numerous castle relics along the coast.
Wales Trip - Bob Hemsen - Day 5 Cae Hir Gardens Cae Hir Gardens is on a steep slope with fabulous views, if it weren’t raining. Started by a Dutch immigrant he had a shovel, a wheel barrow and a few cutting tools. All are displayed on the wall of the little cafeteria. All the stone work was obtained from a derelict home on the neighbors property. He asked and was given permission to use it so he dismantled it, trucked back in his wheel barrow and up the hill for installation.
Wales Trip - Bob Hemsen - Day 5 Llanllyr Farm and Gardens This is a three garden day so there will be a few emails.The first is Llanllyr Farm and Gardens. The gardens sit on the site of a medieval nunnery.
Wales Trip - Bob Hemsen - Day 4 Portmeirion Village Portmeirion Village, a faux Italianate style village used in a TV series The Prisoner, 50 yers ago. Soon to be used, yet again, in a new TV series. Lunch in one of the shops and a woodland walk so not much to share of majestic scenery. Pict 4 & 5: A castle ruin by our hotel on the coast in Aberystwyth.
Wales Trip - Bob Hemsen - Day 4 Plas Brondanw Gardens Plas Brondanw Gardens with a romantic landscape inspired by Renaissance Italy. Noted Author Tony Russell, The Finest Gardens in Wales, was our guide at both sites visited this day.
Wales Trip - Bob Hemsen - Day 3 Bodnant Gardens The first stop of the day, Crug Farm Plants, was bit of a bust. The place was a jungle, the owners were at a funeral, a bogus claim, so there aren’t really any shots that would provoke oohs and ahhs. Bodnant Gardens, however, made up for it with the Laburnum Arch alone.
Wales Trip - Bob Hemsen - Day 2 Stop 1 - Valley Garden - Plas Candant Plas Candant Hidden Gardens. A walled garden, a valley garden with three waterfalls and a woodlands garden.