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Meet the Head Gardener at Munstead Wood on this behind-the-scenes video

A woman wearing a red shirt is gardening amongst red and yellow summer flowers — The Head Gardener at Munstead Wood, Surrey, working in the main summer border. | © National Trust/Laurence Perry

Watch this behind-the-scenes video where our Head Gardener Annabel will introduce you to Munstead Wood and explain more about the work we need to do, before we can open.

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Be one of the first to explore Munstead Wood, the former home of garden designer Gertrude Jekyll

Take a video tour of garden designer Gertrude Jekyll’s former home at Munstead Wood in Surrey, which isn’t open to visitors yet. Follow Head Gardener Annabel Watts to find out more about Jekyll’s vision and the work ahead.

A view of the main flower border at Munstead Wood. Red and yellow flowers grow in front of climbing plants on a stone wall, overshadowed by trees in the background

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View from above the castle, the castle is surrounded by a wooded gorge and dartmoor

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Castle Drogo

Where dramatic architecture meets innovative family home. A 20th century castle overlooking the Teign Gorge.

View of the castle from the walled garden with pink and yellow flowers in the foreground at Lindisfarne Castle, Northumberland

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Lindisfarne Castle

A castle (that’s not a castle), on an island (that’s not an island).

The Kitchen Garden in spring at Standen

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Standen House and Garden

Arts and Crafts family home with Morris & Co. interiors, set in a beautiful hillside garden

An image of the imposing red brick facade of Red House in London showing its north front with arched entrance way and windows surrounded by gardens

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Red House

Iconic Arts and Crafts home of William and Jane Morris and the centre of the Pre-Raphaelite circle.

Stone house sits facing a green lawn with bright purple, red and white flowers in borders on a sunny day

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Coleton Fishacre

A 1920s country retreat complete with tropical garden by the sea

A view of the cottage at Stoneywell on a sunny day with red flowers blooming in the foreground and blue skies above

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Stoneywell

The home of a family who lived and loved the Arts and Crafts