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Due to the very cold start to the year, peak bluebell flowering may be delayed until mid May or later.

Some bluebell ‘stands’ or carpets are decades or even centuries old and their appearance is often seen as signalling the start of the British bloom leading to summer.

Two new exhibitions have just opened at Sissinghurst Castle, in Kent, revealing part of Vita Sackville-West’s wedding trousseau for the first time and a never-seen-before poem to one of her female lovers.

We've launched a plan to provide clean energy to 43 of our historic places, with Good Energy.

Read our response to the government's latest plans on ash dieback.

Celebrities are used to life in front of the lens but this spring stars from the world of sport, film and TV take a turn behind the camera to support our Special Places Project.

Research published by the Trust and the Local Government Information Unit (LGiU) suggests that the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) is failing to give local people a genuine say in shaping the future of their communities, falling short of the Government’s own localism ambitions.

We're supporting the Food and Environment Research Agency’s (Fera’s) groundbreaking Show Garden at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show, 21-25 May 2013.

he world’s leading Rembrandt expert has just confirmed our first ever Rembrandt in our collection at Buckland Abbey, Devon.

To celebrate the centenary of In Pursuit of Spring and Thomas’s poetic understanding of nature, Radio 4 are presenting a series of short programmes, presented by Matthew Oates, the Trust’s specialist on nature and wildlife.

Research suggesting that half (51 per cent) of councils in England will miss the deadline for adopting a local plan has prompted us to call for local authorities to be given more time to agree plans for their area.