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 9 Dingle Nursery and Gardens Dingle Nursery and Gardens is a 4.5 acre property with rambling paths that lead down to a lake. Surprise it was raining, again.
Wales Trip - Bob Hemsen - Day 8 Rock Mill Gardens Two acres, two people, who served us their home made elderflower cordial, and a fabulous private garden. Pictures 3 & 4: The two individuals responsible for this wonderful trip, Cheryl and Diana, taking a ten second break from responsibility. An amazing private garden.
Wales Trip - Bob Hemsen - Day 8 Laskett Gardens Laskett Gardens has a self guided audio tour to accompany visitors. Short and to the point but so many rooms and areas to cover. A place you could spend hours visiting. A visit to the town of Hay-on Wye for lunch. Known as the Town of Books, a second hand bookshop location. Alas nearly every restaurant was closed as they were recovering form a big weekend festival. The Murder and Mayhem bookshop is one of many shops in the town.
Wales Trip - Bob Hemsen - Day 7 Veddw Gardens A private garden created by Anne Wareham and her husband. Twenty five separate areas framed mostly by a labyrinth of hedge.
Wales Trip - Bob Hemsen - Day 7 High Ganau Gardens High Ganau Gardens. It poured while we were here and there was plant sale taking place on the grounds at the same time we visited. The owner had the house opened for tea and baked goods. We all crammed into a beautiful study for her to give us background then off we went. The gardens were conceived in 1922 by Henry Avary Tipping and overlook a valley. This was the warmest most comfortable, warmest and inviting home on the trip. Not badly situated either. Note the grape vine growing through the foundation, around a pipe and still producing grapes.
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‚Äôt 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‚Äôt 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‚Äôt 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.