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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Emily Beament

Grade I listed landscape gets ‘garden for the future’ in face of climate change

The new garden for the future focuses on resilience (National Trust Images/James Dobson/PA) -

An “overlooked” corner of a Grade I listed landscape has been turned into a garden that will test plants’ resilience to climate change, the National Trust said.

The new “garden for the future” in Sheffield Park and Garden, East Sussex, is the first major refresh in the historic landscape influenced by the likes of Capability Brown and Humphry Repton, since it was acquired by the conservation charity in 1954.

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