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    Mar 17, 2020 4 minutes

    Garden memories

    THE world-famous Botanic Garden of Wales turns 20 this year, and former volunteers and employees are invited to get in touch with their stories of the site and pay it a nostalgic visit.

    The garden, near Swansea, was opened to ‘conserve, educate and inspire’ its visitors.

    It was built on land originally owned by the Middleton family in the 1600s, who made their wealth through the spice trade. In the ensuing centuries, it included parkland designed by Capability Brown’s apprentice Samuel Lapidge and was divided into seven farming leases in the 1930s.

    The gardens were opened in May 2020 with the Lord Foster’s Great Glasshouse as its centrepiece.

    Now anyone who has been part of the garden’s

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