Wyatt’s Home and Garden

This is one of my staple birthday present shops for the girlfriend that has everything.
Wyatt’s is a shop of irrisistable pretty things for your home and garden. There are some objects here that are way out of my price range, but also some more in your grown-​up pocket money bracket. Goods in the grown-​up pocket money bracket include your puffy metal hearts in red or white hung by a ribbon and rustic outdoor metal ornate hooks.
Wyatt’s is well placed in the Poncannarite shopping junction of choice, just next to the row of cafes frequented by ladies that lunch. Painted fresh beach hut turquoise and cream it exudes the female and the homely even from the outside. Inside the shop is not huge, the size and feel of two well decorated living rooms.
Similarly to Tanya P I believe that though the items here are beautiful they can’t beat the real thing — the homemade one off or object soaked in history and mystery foraged from the back of a charity shop.

This is a relatively new addition to the shops in the Pontcanna area, and it’s been a long time coming if you ask me! A home and garden shop is exactly the kind of thing that Pontcanna-​ites are into, and this shop is flourishing.
For anyone who is a fan of the traditional country home feel, this shop is a must, and offers an excellent range of homely items and gifts. A very tempting little place indeed.
This is the kind of shop that does well because the products on sale turn a house into a home. With the classic type of resident in the area being arty, Welsh-​speaking and middle class, I really am surprised that we’ve not seen something of this ilk sooner.
Although I’m personally more of a fan of collecting items that are personal to you, rather than mass produced items which you are told are personal to you, I can certainly still see and understand the appeal of this shop.

Wyatt’s Home and Garden is just around the corner from Flowers With A Twist and Over The Rainbow Gifts, making this area a very attractive proposition to prospective gift buyers of discernment! It is a pretty little shop offering everything for the country style home and garden, particularly retro reproductions of time honoured favourites like roll top baths and iron bed frames. Yes, despite having limited floor space, it manages to pack in some pretty hefty items!
Like Flowers With A Twist this is a relatively new business in the area. Jane, who also owns another shop of the same name in Ledbury, this one’s predecessor, opened the Pontcanna branch about three years ago. (Jane wasn’t about when I called in recently to take some pictures… that’s Jan in the pictures!)
During my recent visit I managed to keep my purse in my bag… I’m always overcome by an incredible urge to spend money when I walk into this shop, and could quite easily spend a small fortune! I love everything from the pretty floral doormats, as well as the multi-​coloured wavy modern ones, to the garden furniture, crockery and kitchenware and the beautiful iron beds.
They intersperse the retro reproductions with the genuine articles. A sign out front invites you to come in and browse, and makes the distinction between antiques and second-​hand items, both of which they stock.
They also offer an interior design service.