We haven’t been to Plas Brondanw in a long while – Clough Williams Ellis’s seventeenth–century house on a steep hillside looking across the Porthmadog valley to the mountains, a spectacularly picturesque setting which he enhanced with an elaborate Italianate layout and planting begun before the First World War.

Brilliant topiary:-

A garden pavilion:-

A multitude of garden statues:-

And views out towards the mountains:-