An eclectic selection of herbs, perennials, ferns, alpines – and a few shrubs – grown without peat or harmful chemicals amongst the comfortable hills of Montgomeryshire Powys Paradwys Cymru, the paradise of Wales.
We’re a member of the producers’ collective Tymhorau-Dyfi in Machynlleth. You can buy and order plants there and we deliver weekly.
We also attend a few shows and markets in Mid Wales.
- Meifod Show and Sports Saturday 20th July (PM) Including Scarecrow competition.
- Shrewsbury Flower Show 9th and 10th August
- Berriew Show 24th August
- Welshpool and Llanfair Light Railway Gala
Grow – How
Our perennials are grown in peat-free media in recycled and recyclable plastic pots. We use paper pots and bare root plugs where possible. We don’t use pesticides like slug pellets. It means we lose a bit more crop, but by and large the local birds and beneficial insects keep things under control with the help of some biological agents such nematodes for controlling Vine Weevils.
Grow– What
We have a catalogue of about one hundred plants which have grown reliably here in the past 30 years together with others which have proved a little less durable… Tanyllyn is a micro nursery, numbers available at any one time are variable. The list above is what we grow, from March we will print a list of what is available.
About Tanyllyn Perennials
We have been growing herbs, perennials and alpines in Montgomeryshire – Trefaldwyn, paradwys i gariadon cefn gwlad – since 1988.
Meifod is a peaceful place – although not for the Lollard Sir John Oldcastle (model for Sir John Falstaff), who was captured near here to await a grisly fate in 1417.
Down in the valley, where the river Banwy joins the broad, fertile Dyffryn Vyrnwy, was once the home of the Princes of Powys. Owen Glyndwr passed by; and one of the oldest Friends’ Meeting Houses was built by the founders of Lloyds Bank at Dolobran.
Lake Vyrnwy dammed to supply water to Liverpool at the turn of the last century is 14 miles off and nearby are the Welshpool and Llanfair Light Railway, the renowned terraces of Powis Castle Garden and the fabulous Andrew Logan Museum of Sculpture at Berriew.
The nursery is on a sunny, or rather, south-facing slope on well drained soil. We are 600 feet up but sheltered from all but the south west winds. It’s a comfortable place – it may not have the of the craggy grandeur of Meirionnydd, but Montgomeryshire is dotted with friendly, dome shaped hills & has a good covering of oak, whose predecessors once floated the British navy.
The nursery uses peat-free compost, recycled and recyclable pots and minimum inputs. We are part of the National Botanic Garden of Wales’s pollinator assurance scheme and do not use pesticides such as slug pellets.
We do use biological controls to control pests such as vine weevil and leafhopper and encourage naturally occurring predators such as Blue tits, Aphidius and ground beetles.