As some of the UK’s best-loved gardens prepare to reopen to the public, we ask the head gardeners what has been happening behind their closed gates
There are benches in the grounds of Knightshayes, a National Trust property in Devon, that head gardener Jess Evans has never sat on. During a normal spring, she’d be busy overseeing a team of six gardeners and 50 volunteers as they tend the walled kitchen garden and 25 acres of formal garden and woodland that surround this grand Gothic Revival house. But this has not been a normal spring. When lockdown was announced, the garden closed its gates and the rest of the team were laid off.
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