Gardeners from Ceredigion have swept the board in a competition on S4C to find Wales’s best gardens.

Back in May, the ‘Wales’s Best Gardens’ competition was launched on Garddio a Mwy (Gardening and More). The winners were announced in the final programme of the present series last week.

Three winners out of the four categories, including young gardener, flower garden, vegetable garden and best school garden, come from Aberteifi, Tre’r Ddol and Lampeter. Ysgol Abererch in Pwllheli won the best school garden category.

Winner of the young gardener category is Heledd Evans of Trewyddel near Aberteifi.

“It’s been a really strange feeling to win,” said Heledd who started gardening for the first time during lockdown. “It was a shock because things aren’t as tidy as I’d like them and things haven’t been growing as I would want them to. It just goes to show, it’s not about growing the perfect produce – at the end of the day it’s about the process, the work and enjoying experimenting.”

Carys Briddon from Tre’r Ddol’s beautiful and colourful garden won the award for best flower garden.

Carys said: “Well, I was so pleased to have won the category for the best flower garden. I had quite a shock when I heard but I am thrilled. I have always been interested in growing flowers. Both my mother and my grandmother were very fond of flowers. I like perennials the best because there is a different flower for each month. Once one dies away, another will flower.”

Rhian Bambrey from Lampeter scooped the prize for best vegetable garden.

“It’s just this year that I started the vegetable garden,” said Rhian. “Before this it was just grass. It feels so nice to go out and pick your own veg from the garden, take them into the kitchen and their fresh. They taste better than anything you get in a shop.”

“I can’t believe that I’ve won the best vegetable garden,” said Rhian. “It was worth every second of the hard work throughout the year and I’m looking forward to next year now.”