Some of the Welsh folk traditions from which the Celtic Garden grew reach back into prehistoric times even perhaps to the end of the last Ice-Age when land to the west was submerged. Stories were written down by medieaval monks that up to then had been spoken by generations of bards and storytellers.

The Celtic Garden has also grown from Wales' cultural landscape, its wooded valleys, rugged hills, waterfalls and lakes. Trees cover landmarks that were created before Wales and England existed; hillforts, dykes and burial mounds from the time of small Kingdoms which emerged in the dying days of Roman Britain.

In this shadowy period history cannot be separated from myth and legend. Celtic gods and goddesses evolved into heroes and heroines in folk tales; characters like Brân, King Arthur and Berwyn have left their imprint on the landscape where a mountain may be a seat of power and a lake a source of fertility and healing. This cultural landscape provides many of the elements in the Celtic Garden.

The path through the garden takes you out of this World into the Celtic Otherworld
and back again with unconscious ease. Like a character in a Welsh Legend you
discover that there are parallel worlds to our own
and more than one point of view.

There are eight distinct areas in the Celtic Garden, each
representing a part of the year, a period of the day and
a stage in the life cycle. Paths, bridges and stepping
stones lead from one area to another, through
gateways, under arches, in-between paired trees
or standing stones.

The areas are located by the points of the
Garden Compass so that:

North is winter and night;
East is spring and sunrise;
South is summer and noon;
West is autumn and sunset. 

Find out more about the Celtic Garden concept in

Celtic Garden - an introduction