Here you can discover plants from all over the world in 40 acres of beautiful gardens and glasshouses. This heritage-listed garden has been designed for both year-round interest and seasonal inspiration so, whenever you visit, you will find plants to intrigue and enchant.

Open: Daily 10am to 6pm in the summer, to 4pm in the winter

Admission: Adult £4.50, under-16s free.

Find out more: www.botanic.cam.ac.uk

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Alan Bloom created his garden in 1953 growing hardy perennials in island beds, there are now 48 beds in front of Bressingham Hall and in adjacent meadows. With over 5,000 different species and varieties, this is an important as well as a beautiful historical collection and a Mecca for perennial-lovers.

Open: Open daily from 10.30am to 5pm until 4 November

Admission: Adult £8.75, child £5

Find out more: www.thebressinghamgardens.com

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The Place for Plants at East Bergholt Place, is a family run specialist plant centre, garden and arboretum with 20 acres of unusual trees and shrubs, spring bulbs, topiary and a series of ponds.  Particularly beautiful in Spring with snowdrops, magnolias, rhododendrons and camellias followed by the fritillary and wild flower meadow. The plant centre, in the spectacular Victorian walled garden, offers a range of plants for sale.

Open: Daily from 1 March to 30 September, 10am to 5pm (closed Easter Sunday)

Admission: Adult £6, child free

Find out more: www.placeforplants.co.uk

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Created in 1821, Ickworth is a fine example of an Italianate garden with paths and vistas designed around the central house. Don’t miss the Victorian stumpery, beautiful parkland and walled kitchen garden.

Open: 8am to 5pm daily

Admission: Adult £5, child £2 free for National Trust Members

Find out more: www.nationaltrust.org.uk/ickworth/

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The Edwardian garden at Elton Hall has been restored, with the flower garden replanted and a new sunken garden, a shrub garden and an arboretum created.

The Gothic orangery was built to celebrate the Millennium and a Gothic arbour has recently been added to mark the Jubilee celebrations.

Open: June to August, days vary, 2pm to 5pm

Admission: Adult £6.50, concessions £6

Find out more: www.eltonhall.com

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Beautiful English gardens surround this medieval moated house. Highlights include a walled veg and fruit garden, iris and delphinium walk and woodland copse planted with spring bulbs.

Open: Wednesdays from 28 March to 10 October. 10am to 4.30pm

Admission: £5

Find out more: www.hindringhamhall.org

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The award-winning Houghton gardens have been lovingly renovated over the past 20 years so that visitors can now enjoy a series of ornamental gardens in a variety of styles and a productive walled kitchen garden

Open: Wednesdays, Thursday, Sundays, Bank Holiday Mondays 11.30am to 5.30pm

Admission: Adult £10, child £3.50

Find out more: www.houghtonhall.com

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Prepare to be seduced by an extensive deer park, a spectacular moated Hall in mellow red brick, colourful herbaceous borders, rose garden and walled kitchen garden with parterre.

Open: 1 May to 16 September, 12:00 to 5pm every Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Sunday

Admission: Adult £6, child £3.50

Find out more: www.helmingham.com

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There is much to see at the Old Vicarage including a tree fern garden, red and purple border and wildlife meadow. The gardens have been lovingly created on what was open land and include many rare and unusual species.

Open: 25 March to 27 October, Wednesday to Sunday and Bank Holidays 2pm to 5.30pm

Admission: Adult £7, child £1

Find out more: www.e-ruston-oldvicaragegardens.co.uk

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The gardens at this Georgian town house are a delight, with much packed into the two acre plot including an orangery, summerhouse, croquet lawn and rose garden with more than 60 species of rose.

Open: Days and times vary, check before you travel

Admission: Adult £4.60, child £2.30, National Trust members free

Find out more: www.nationaltrust.org.uk/peckover-house

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