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71 houses and gardens across Wales, the finest first, then every one county by county.
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Terraced garden with its famous laburnum arch.
Conwy
Clough Williams-Ellis's Italianate coastal village and subtropical woodland gardens on the Dwyryd estuary.
Gwynedd
National Trust Restoration mansion and formal walled gardens of the Morgan family on the western edge of Newport.
Newport
Edwardian gardens near Caerwent with a rare underground network of tunnels, ferneries and grottoes, buried for decades and rediscovered in the 1990s.
Monmouthshire
National Trust Edwardian gardens and arboretum around Dyffryn House, laid out by Thomas Mawson and rated by Cadw the finest Edwardian garden in Wales.
Vale of Glamorgan
Estuary-side home of the poet Dylan Thomas at Laugharne, now a museum above the Taf.
Carmarthenshire
Country house famed for upstairs-downstairs life.
Wrexham
Victorian public park with a boating lake, botanic gardens and a lighthouse clock tower commemorating Captain Scott.
Cardiff
Open-air museum of rebuilt historic buildings in the grounds of St Fagans Castle, with formal Italianate gardens and fish ponds.
Historic gardens with a rare Elizabethan cloister garden and the Ninfarium, in the Tywi valley.
Ruined princely castle in a deer park.
Botanic garden with the world's largest single-span glasshouse, in the Tywi valley.
Grade II* garden of the Ladies of Llangollen, with a formal parterre, topiary, a woodland stream walk and a 19th-century Gorsedd stone circle.
Denbighshire
A National Trust place in Merseyside.
Liverpool
Six-acre private garden near Cribyn laid out in themed colour areas, described as a Welsh garden with a Dutch history.
Ceredigion
Four-acre garden on a steep south-facing slope near Welshpool, planted in harmonious colour themes with year-round conifers.
Powys
Evolving three-acre wildlife and water garden in the Ceredigion uplands near Bronant.
South-facing garden beside Tretower Court transformed from gravel into a wildlife-rich planting.
Grade II listed Victorian pleasure garden with waterfalls and streams set in parkland on the edge of Brecon.
Large Victorian garden with rhododendrons, azaleas, herbaceous borders and yew hedges near Builth Wells.
Restored 18th-century picturesque designed landscape of walks, waterfalls and woodland near Devil's Bridge.
A National Trust place in Ceredigion.
Garden of unusual trees and shrubs planted from 1999 in the Usk valley near Llangattock.
Grounds of a Victorian gothic house near Llangorse, with terraces, mature trees and lake views.
Recreated late-medieval garden beside the Cadw-run Tretower Court manor house near Crickhowell.
Lavender farm at around 1,100 feet in the hills with wild planting and panoramic views, distilling its own oils.
Formal garden of a family seat held since the 15th century, with a box parterre, an avenue, the Pleasance and the wooded Dingle over about eight acres.
Restored Tudor gardens around a 16th-century courtyard house at Llanrwst, with yew arches, a cedar terrace and roaming peacocks.
Clough Williams-Ellis's own Grade I garden of yew-hedged rooms and vistas towards Cnicht, near Llanfrothen.
Nineteenth-century estate gardens above the Vale of Ffestiniog near Maentwrog, with terraces and woodland walks.
National Trust country-house gardens, parkland and woodland on the Menai Strait at Llanfairpwll, with views to Snowdonia.
Anglesey
A National Trust place in Conwy.
National Trust formal gardens with clipped yews, a rock garden and terraces beside the Marcher fortress at Chirk.
A National Trust place in Gwynedd.
Landscaped hillside gardens on the eastern flank of the Great Orme, with Alice in Wonderland sculptures and sea views.
Terraced Edwardian public gardens on the lower slopes of the Great Orme above Llandudno.
Restored early-19th-century picturesque gardens between Menai Bridge and Beaumaris, with a walled garden, waterfalls and a tea room.
A National Trust place in Anglesey.
Bangor University botanic garden above the Menai Strait, with glasshouses, arboretum and native meadows.
Formal walled and Japanese-style gardens within Bryngarw Country Park near Brynmenyn.
Bridgend
Historic parkland and arboretum along the River Taff beside Cardiff Castle, laid out on the former grounds of the Marquesses of Bute.
Wooded valley garden on Cardiff's northern edge, planted with rhododendrons and azaleas that flower in late spring.
Restored walled physic garden behind Cowbridge Old Hall, planted with medicinal and period herbs.
Terraced Edwardian garden near Abergavenny with brick towers, a potager and box parterres, opening to visitors in the growing season.
Arts and Crafts garden at St Arvans designed by Henry Avray Tipping, with topiary, a sunken garden and a bowling green.
Restored Victorian Gothic mansion at Llandaff with formal gardens, lawns and mature trees open to the public.
Tudor gentry manor near Nelson presented as a living-history house of the Civil War period.
Caerphilly
Hillside garden with views over Wentwood and the Vale of Usk, developed by its owners and open on charity days.
Historic parkland around Cyfarthfa Castle museum in Merthyr Tydfil, built for the ironmaster William Crawshay.
Merthyr Tydfil
Arts and Crafts garden above the Vale of Usk laid out by Henry Avray Tipping, with terraces, pergola and long views.
Historic parkland and gardens of the Llanover estate on the Usk, associated with Lady Llanover, opening on occasional days.
Arts and Crafts garden made by Henry Avray Tipping around the former bishops' palace at Mathern near Chepstow.
Wild mountain garden high in the Grwyne Fawr valley in the Black Mountains, blending vegetable beds, woodland and river.
Contemporary garden at Devauden made over 20-plus years by Anne Wareham and Charles Hawes, known for its clipped hedges and reflecting pool.
Three acres of lawns, woodland, orchard and meadow on the valley slopes near Tintern, hung with a changing summer sculpture show and known for its snowdrops.
Blackpill woodland garden with a nationally important rhododendron collection, a registered historic garden.
Swansea
Restored woodland country park at Cilfrew above the Dulais valley, with a walled garden.
Neath Port Talbot
Six-acre private garden of contrasting planted rooms and wild ground in the hills near Fishguard.
Pembrokeshire
Ninety-acre country park at Golden Grove with a 17th-century deer park and a Victorian arboretum.
Registered historic landscape park above Neath with formal cascades and lakes.
Historic estate with a Tudor-Gothic mansion, 18th-century orangery, ruined chapter house and deer herd.
Restored Victorian landscaped valley garden with lake, cascade and observatory site north of Swansea.
Walled garden and woodland grounds around a medieval castle near Haverfordwest.
Botanical garden and glasshouses within Singleton Park in Swansea.
Thirty-five acres of gardens and arboretum around a medieval castle above the Carew river.
A National Trust place in Carmarthenshire.
A National Trust place in Pembrokeshire.
Plantsman's garden with thousands of species and year-round interest near Llanfallteg.
