A Selection of National Trust Gardens Open During Winter
The following list includes gardens which are open regularly throughout the year. In addition, a number of properties have special openings during February and March so that visitors can enjoy early flowering spring plants.

NB Some properties have restricted opening times during winter months, so visitors should always ring the property before travelling.

Castle Drogo, Devon
Cotehele, Cornwall
Killerton, Devon
Lanhydrock, Cornwall
Prior Park Landscape Garden, Near Bath
Stourhead, Wiltshire
Clandon Park, Surrey
Claremont Landscape Garden, Surrey
Petworth, West Sussex
Polesden Lacey, Surrey
Sheffield Park Garden, East Sussex
Stowe Gardens, Buckinghamshire
Winkworth Aboretum, Surrey
Ham House, Richmond
Osterley Park, Hounslow
Angelsey Abbey, Cambridge
Ickworth Park & Garden, Suffolk
Attingham Park, Shropshire
Clumber Park, , Nottinghamshire
Fell Foot Park, Cumbria
Gawthorpe Hall, Lancashire
Lyme Park, Cheshire
Fountains Abbey & Studley Royal Water Garden, North Yorkshire
Wallington, Northumberland
Rowallane Garden, Down N. Ireland

Autumn walks
Pull on your walking shoes, get your cameras ready and witness the spectacular displays nature has to offer this autumn. As summer flowers fade and leaves adopt autumn's fiery shades many of the National Trust's gardens and landscape parks are at their most breathtakingly beautiful.
While the houses are put to bed for the winter a number of gardens and parks remain open for warming winter walks.

Ablaze with colour, the dazzling combinations of foliage are mirrored in the lakes and cascades at Sheffield Park Garden, East Sussex. The rich reds of Scarlet Oak, orange hues from Swamp Cypress and creamy silver plumes of ornamental Pampas Grass make it one of the premier gardens to experience the autumn spectacle.

This year marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of the National Council for the Conservation of Plants and Gardens (NCCPG), which was founded amid concerns about the uncertain future of many plants growing in our gardens. The charity's main conservation vehicle is the National Plant Collection scheme and the Trust holds the largest number of National Plant Collections in the care of a single organisation, over 30 collections in 21 National Trust gardens across the country.

Autumn is one of the best times of the year to see some of these collections. Upton House Garden, Warwickshire is home to the National Collection of Asters. This colourful collection of Michaelmas daises are at their peak in early autumn. Winkworth Arboretum, Surrey is a mecca for tree lovers with its unusual trees and shrubs, including the National Collection of Sorbus, ablaze with brilliant colours in autumn. See the amazing cornus kousa, with its brilliant scarlet strawberry-like fruit and discover the remarkable Katsura tree from Japan with its toffee-apple scent that wafts through the autumnal air as the leaves begin to fall. Visitors to Felbrigg Hall near Norwich can see the National Collection of Colchicums in early autumn. Over 60 varieties in various hues of purple and lilac as well as white and carmine provide a fantastic display of colour.