A TV gardening show has helped create a First World War-themed commemorative garden for a war poet’s home.

The Garddio a Mwy team has been working on a very special project with the local community in Trawsfynydd to create a garden for Yr Ysgwrn, the home of the poet Hedd Wyn, who was killed during the First World War.

As part of the popular series the team – Sioned and Iwan Edwards and Meinir Gwilym – invite people who need help to improve their gardens to get in touch.

When the Snowdon National Park Authority asked for their help to create a special garden for Yr Ysgwrn, they were delighted - especially with the commemoration of Armistice Day coming up on 11 November.

“The work on the farmhouse itself and the Beudy Llwyd visitor centre had been completed,” said Euros Wyn from Cwmni Da who produce Garddio a Mwy.

“But the garden hadn’t been touched. There were two gardens – one right in front of the farmhouse and one next to it but the authority wanted us to do something different to what was there before.”

Meinir Gwilym, one of the Garddio a Mwy presenters explains some of the challenges the team faced: “The authority didn’t want us to go all the way back to the period of the First World War but they wanted to keep the feel of the period.

“It was important to them that the garden be of use to the community of today. So the challenge was to keep some of the types of things they would have grown at that time but presenting it in a way that would be appropriate for visitors today.

“We had to consider, because of the history of Yr Ysgwrn, that this wasn’t going to be just a garden in which vegetables would grow but also a garden where people would want to go to sit and think.”

The show was first broadcast last week but a repeat will be showing on Friday, 2 November, at 6.30pm on S4C.

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