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Portmeirion was one of the first retail companies to fully understand and exploit the "lifestyle" consumer, creating a wide range of products including casual tableware, housewares and gifts for both women and men. The 1970s saw the birth of what is considered by many to be signature range of Portmeirion: Botanic Garden.
She later created Magic City (1966) and Magic Garden (1970), but arguably Portmeirion's most recognised design is the Botanic Garden range, decorated with a variety of floral illustrations adapted from Thomas Green's Universal or-Botanical, Medical and Agricultural Dictionary (1817), and looking back to a tradition begun by the Chelsea ...
Portmeirion (/ p ɔːr t ˈ m ɛr i ə n /; [1] Welsh pronunciation: [pɔrtˈmei̯rjɔn]) is a folly [2] tourist village in Gwynedd, North Wales. It lies on the estuary of the River Dwyryd in the community of Penrhyndeudraeth , 2 miles (3.2 km) from Porthmadog and 1 mile (1.6 km) from Minffordd railway station .
The garden was founded in 1901 by Mauritian agronomist Paul Evenor Rivalz Dupont, [1] who served as the Director of Agricultural Services and Naturalist of Seychelles, with the aim of creating an agricultural station.
The Beaumont Botanical Gardens (23.5 acres), also known as the Tyrrell Park Botanical Gardens, includes botanical gardens and the 10,000 sq ft Warren Loose conservatory. The gardens are located in 500 acre Tyrrell Park at 6088 Babe Zaharias Drive, Beaumont, Texas, USA. An extra benefit is that the gardens are located in a migratory bird flyway.
The Lae Botanic Gardens occupies 38 hectares. The garden mostly consists of natural lowland rain forest with creeks running through. It also contains greenhouses for special Orchidaceae and Araceae collections. [1] The gardens are administered by the Papua New Guinea Forest Research Institute and have approximately 1500 - 2000 plant species.