
These six stunning gardens are among the National Trust's finest and represent some of the most beautiful landscapes in the United Kingdom.They offer a widely differing range of horticultural styles and periods of gardening history. Filmed over the course of a year demonstrating their versatility the skills of the gardeners and the beauty of the gardens themselves. Biddulph Grange - One of the quirkiest National Trust gardens which has different compartments with names such as Egypt and China and is a garden of great humour and surprise.Cotehele - An ancient estate beside the Tamar with stunning formal gardens richly planted woodland walks and an orchid strewn with mistletoe clad trees.Knightshayes - A magnificent garden with a grand formal design around the house. It has a conservatory alpine garden extensive woodland garden with an excellent collection of trees shrubs and bulbs and a recently restored walled garden.Powis Castle - Is a garden of grandeur and scale. The garden is a series of terraces high yew hedges and descending paths winding down to more formal gardens.Sissinghurst - Created by Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson is a masterpiece of design and plantsmanship. From the wonderful collection of old fashioned roses herbaceous perennials and the white garden - an inspiration at any time.Trengwainton - A fascinating garden with a 'Jurassic' feel holding exceptional spring flowering trees and shrubs with a walled garden full of exotic and unusual plants.
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