Welcome to the National Botanic Garden of Wales, the only national botanic garden to be build in the new millennium.This year is our 5th birthday. In this short time, we have developed into one of the most wonderful gardens in the UK. Take a look around this site to find more about us. Like on Bank Holidays and culturally important dates, the Garden hosts a lively programme of music, dance and theatre. These can be from carol singing at Christmas time to Shakespearean plays, maypole dances, outdoor classical concerts, Welsh choirs, jazz evenings, helicopter rides and sheep dog displays with ducks. Over the wonderful lakes, streams, marsh, semi-natural woodland, meadows and gardens we gave a home to over 100 types of butterfly and moth hundreds of native plant species more than 56 varieties of birds thousands of frogs, toads and palmate newts common lizards, grass snakes and slow worms twenty species of mammal. We are able to boast of over 180 types of lichen, many rare types of fungi and 92 varieties of moss. We can also know there are 26 types of snail.