Hazel Robinson oversees all the plant propagation and the orchid house display. You’ll find magnificent floral designs in pots all around the garden, full of colourful begonias, fuchsias, salvias and annuals, all in the spirit of the garden’s opulent past.
Hazel explains, 'The big displays can keep going until November with copious dead-heading and watering. Behind the scenes we take the containers apart and put them back together again to freshen them up. We inherited over 1,000 dahlias which all needed identifying and labelling, one of my biggest tasks when I arrived at Dyffryn.’
The rarer dahlias are lifted after the first frosts and stored until the following spring but other varieties are sold off to visitors, so look out for a dahlia bargain in the shop this autumn.
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