Laburnum Time

Laburnum sometimes called golden chain or golden rain. The end of May signals time for the Laburnum arch at Bodnant garden to come into flower. The Laburnum Arch, a 55 metre-long avenue of golden flowers, was created by the garden’s Victorian founder Henry Pochin in 1880.

A Buzzing of Bees at Bodnant

 

Lots of bee activity around the blossom on the Malus transitoria (cut-leaf crabapple) in the Parterre garden.

Snow in May

 

Not only snow but thunder, lightning and hailstones. This is the view across the Menai straits of the mountains of Snowdonia.

Wild Ponies

 

The Carneddau Mountain range in the Snowdonia National Park is home to a small population of around 300 semi-feral Carneddau ponies whose history is thought to date back to the Bronze Age