Describes eighteen of the National Trust's gardens from all over Great Britain, including Blickling Hall in Norfolk, Powis Castle in Powys, Rowallane in County Down, Killerton in Devon, Peckover House in Cambridgeshire, Cragside in Northumberland, Anglesey Abbey in Cambridgeshire, Knightshayes in Devon, Studley Royal in Yorkshire, Hinton Ampner in Hampshire, Stourhead in Wiltshire, Stowe Landscape Gardens, Barrington Court in Somerset, Dunham Massey in Cheshire, Sheffield Park in Sussex, Biddulph Grange in Staffordshire, Mount Stewart in County Down, and Hardwick Hall in Derbyshire.