Felbrigg is a garden of two halves; the West Garden is laid out in the style of a typical Victorian pleasure ground, arranged around a lovely 18th-century Orangery.

Focusing on the play between light and shade, open formal lawns drift into dense and dark shrubbery. This area contains many fine specimen trees mainly of transatlantic origin including, Red Oaks, Western Red Cedar and Giant Redwood.

Drift through the Garden Meadow and into the Walled Garden. Here you will find double borders of mixed shrubs, including old roses, fuchsias, hydrangeas and buddleias - during the height of summer these borders should be called the butterfly walk!

There is an herbaceous border, a Hot Border and a Ribbon Border that sweeps through the Entrance Garden into the Kitchen Garden.

The Kitchen Garden is laid out around a pond and divided into four potagers of mixed vegetables and their traditional companions. There are excellent herb borders planted to each side of an 18th-century dovecote.

The New Orchard is planted with varieties of fruit that were known to have been grown in the garden during the 19th century.

The walls are also clothed in fruit, with many varieties of apples, pears, cherries, peaches, apricots and figs.

©NTPL / Marianne Majerus