Tag: botany
Where it all started: Alfred Russel Wallace in Cwm Nedd
![Where it all started: Alfred Russel Wallace in Cwm Nedd Where it all started: Alfred Russel Wallace in Cwm Nedd](http://i0.wp.com/gwallter.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/wallace-1-2.jpg?resize=201%2C200&ssl=1)
On Sundays I would stroll in the fields and woods, learning the various parts and organs of any flowers I could gather, and then trying how many of them belonged to any of the orders described in my book. Great was my delight when I found that I could identify a Crucifer, an Umbellifer, and […]
Thereza Dillwyn Llewelyn, selenophotographer
![Thereza Dillwyn Llewelyn, selenophotographer Thereza Dillwyn Llewelyn, selenophotographer](http://i0.wp.com/gwallter.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Thereza-1.jpg?resize=300%2C200&ssl=1)
If you visit the Penllergare Valley Woods, as we did last week, you can’t leave without developing a strong respect for the estate’s chief creator, John Dillwyn Llewelyn. Photographic pioneer, astronomer, botanist, orchid collector, landscapist, inventor – he used his wealth, leisure and connections, after inheriting the estate as a boy from his grandfather in […]