Spring Gardens to visit

As spring approaches, make time to visit this collection of glorious gardens

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BLOOMING ARUNDEL CASTLE

Now anticipating its sixth year, the festival at the ancestral home of the Duke of Norfolk is set to be bigger than ever. The spectacular display will feature more than 80,000 tulips in 120 varieties across the Castle’s 40 acres throughout April. Arundel Castle and Gardens re-opens on 1 April 2020. Arundel, West Sussex BN18 9AB | arundelcastle.org

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BUSCOT PARK

Buscot Park’s 18th-century mansion offers art, gardens and lakes. Gardens open Monday to Friday 2pm-6pm and some weekends including Bank Holidays. Entry: House and Gardens: Adults: £12. Over 65s: £10. Children (5-15): £6. Information Line: 01367 240932. National Trust members free.

Faringdon, Oxfordshire SN7 8BU | info@buscot-park.com | buscotpark.com

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RHS ROSEMOOR

Visit us as spring bursts into flower including rhododendrons, camellias and thousands of daffodils in bloom throughout the Garden as well as naturalised daffodils and fritillaries carpeting the meadows. Combine your trip with our Spring Flower Festival, 14-15 March.

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HESTERCOMBE GARDENS

It is during spring that Lutyens’ magnificent hard landscaping is most visible in the Formal Gardens, which he designed with Gertrude Jekyll. In the Georgian Landscape Garden, designed by Coplestone Warre Bampfylde c.1750s, swathes of beautiful snowdrops, daffodils and later, bluebells, punctuate the neo-classical vistas. Taunton, Somerset TA2 8LQ | 01823 413923 | hestercombe.com

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CHARTWELL

With blankets of daffodils and a meadow of crocuses and alliums, there’s plenty to see at the family home of Sir Winston Churchill. The cut-flower bed has an array of tulips, magnolia trees frame the path towards the house while apple blossom bloom into life in the orchard.