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Wakehurst, previously known as Wakehurst Place, is a house and botanic gardens in West Sussex, England, owned by the National Trust but used and managed by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (RBG Kew). It is near Ardingly , West Sussex in the High Weald ( grid reference TQ340315), and comprises a late 16th-century mansion, a mainly 20th-century ...
The organisation manages botanic gardens at Kew in Richmond upon Thames in south-west London, and at Wakehurst, a National Trust property in Sussex which is home to the internationally important Millennium Seed Bank, whose scientists work with partner organisations in more than 95 countries. [2]
Sheffield Park and Garden is an informal landscape garden five miles east of Haywards Heath, in East Sussex, England.It was originally laid out in the 18th century by Capability Brown, and further developed as a woodland garden in the early 20th century by its then owner, Arthur Gilstrap Soames.
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Wakehurst may refer to: . Places: . Electoral district of Wakehurst, electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales; Wakehurst (formerly known as Wakehurst Place), a property owned by the National Trust and managed by Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, located near Ardingly, West Sussex, southern England
A keen gardener, Loder purchased the Wakehurst Place estate in 1903 and spent 33 years developing the gardens, which today cover some two square kilometres (500 acres) and are owned by the National Trust. He was president of the Royal Arboricultural Society from 1926 to 1927 and president of the Royal Horticultural Society from 1929 to 1931.
Robert Bertrand Sackville-West, 7th Baron Sackville DL (born 10 July 1958), is a British publisher, author and guardian of Knole in Kent, which has been a Sackville house since 1603 and is now owned by the National Trust.
The National Trust initially purchased 28 acres of land in 1935, with funds raised via a public subscription. Chanctonbury District Council acquired the remaining 35 acres in 1959. Their successor, Horsham District Council , gifted the 35 acres to the National Trust in 1985.