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DISCOVER NATIONAL TRUST GARDENS NEAR YOU THIS SPRING AS THEY BURST INTO LIFE

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SPRING is well underway and, as the days lengthen and the weather turns warmer, this is a great time to explore National Trust gardens. Take in the sights and scents of late spring gardens across the North West. Your visit will help keep them blooming for many years to come. Here are some of the best gardens to explore near you...

QUARRY BANK, Wilmslow

Surrounding a once-bustling 18th-century cotton mill, the gardens at Quarry Bank are full of colour and scent at this time of year, from rhododendrons and magnolia to bluebells in the woods. Irises and peonies put on a show-stopping display in the borders of the Upper Walled Garden in May and June, while colourful clivia can be found in the curvilinear glass house. Blue-flowered Ajuga runs underneath the crab apple arch in the Upper Garden, with vibrant geums, atlas poppies and euphorbias flowering alongside the Garden Café.

DUNHAM MASSEY, Altrincham