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Here are some of our favorite gardens to visit in England

NT Head Gardner, Alan Power visits Sissinghurst in Kent, previously home to poet and novelist Vita Sackville-West and her husband, diplomat Harold Nicolson. Working from ruins, the couple’s personalities collided and combined to create this dramatic, world-renowned garden.

In this episode of the National Trust Podcast we’re at Cliveden, Berkshire. Set high above the Thames, the grounds of Cliveden House are home to a world famous parterre, Japanese Garden and topiary-lined long walk. Around every corner you’ll find stories of mystery, decadence and the fame and misfortune of Britain’s political elite.

In this episode we visit Sheringham in North Norfolk with National Trust Head Gardener Alan Power

Join us on a journey through this tropical Cornish paradise – where lush rolling valleys meet the sea, and exotic plants grow alongside native wildflowers. We get to know the Fox family, who laid down the plans for the garden back in the 1820s, and still live in the house today.

The laburnum arch at the National Trust’s world famous Bodnant Garden in Conwy has produced its earliest blooms for a decade, following a record amount of sunshine in April and May. The arch reached full flower on 15 May, almost a week earlier than last year and two weeks earlier than in 2010

In the fall of 2019, Royal Oak sat down with Anne and Johnny Chambers to discuss their garden in the Cotswolds, Kiftsgate Court. As the garden writer Robin Lane Fox wrote about Kiftsgate “there is nowhere else in Britain that has such a family tradition of planting and dedication.

Seeing bluebells scattered along a grassy verge or carpeting a woodland floor has to be a highlight of any spring walk

In this week’s episode we visit Croome in Worcestershire with the NT’s Alan Power, the head gardener of Stourhead in Wiltshire.

Many of the National Trust's gardens that you can admire today were transformed by Victorian plant hunters. These men and women travelled the world bringing back the beautiful plants that continue to make the gardens special to this day.