Enjoy long, lazy days and soak in the sunshine in National Trust gardens packed with colour and scent from thousands of flowers in full bloom. Take a short drive and feast your eyes on herbaceous borders with their paintbox palette of colours and beautiful, scented rose gardens. Here are some of our top National Trust gardens to visit.
.. Close to Exeter, Killerton has an elegant garden and a calm air about it.
Stretching out behind the mansion house is the Terrace Garden. The herbaceous flowering bed is a canvas of colour in summer. This grand estate holds many rare trees and shrubs, and up on ‘The Clump’ is the site of an extinct volcano.
Discover meadows, orchards and woodlands where you can enjoy far-reaching views of the Tavy Valley. The Elizabethan rose garden provides an explosion of colour and scent, as well as a pollinator-friendly selection of plants. In the Cider House garden, herbaceous borders provide seasonal interest and a secret ‘wild’ garden is a wonderful place for quiet contemplation (or a game of hide and seek).
Lose yourself in the garden at Knightshayes, home to one of the most extensive plant collections to be found in the care of the National Trust. With a walled kitchen garden, terraces, Paved Garden and the Garden in the Wood, there is plenty to see all year round. Relax in the south garden and take in the scents of summer blooms.
Saltram garden in summer is home to swathes of exotic tropical planting, big shows of colourful borders as well as.