A whimsical and beautiful book celebrating these hidden gems of the
National Trust - from specially made secret gardens to overlooked
corners of famous gardens and re-discovered lost gardens.Stunning
photographs of the Trust's idiosyncratic gardens are accompanied by a
light text meditating on the magic of the secret garden, and bringing in
fascinating historical and botanical details. The book will include
secret mazes, hidden corners, walled gardens, lost gardens, gardens that
are only open one day a year, follies, orchards, dens, memorials,
strange statues, stumperies, huts, ice houses, wendy houses, fairy gates
and pixie houses. The gardens featured include the palm-filled
Overbeck's in Devon, Peckover House in Cambridgeshire, which bursts with
exotic specimens found on Victorian plant-hunting expeditions, and
Monk's House in East Sussex, where the garden proved a refuge for
Virginia Woolf.