Welcome to Anglesey Abbey.
It's a garden divided into formal spaces of really top-end horticulture
surrounded by some more natural spaces of wild flower meadows and woodland.
Today I'm going to take you on a tour of some of the bits of the garden that are looking at their best at this time of year.
This is Jubilee Avenue, this is my favourite bit of the garden.
I really like the formal avenues we've got here
and I really like the changing colours we're going to see here really soon
as they turn to brilliant yellow.
My favourite time of year is autumn.
The light's really good, the shadows, rays of sunlight coming through the trees and the changing colours.
This is the Dahlia border, this attracts a lot of visitors to come and see our display
This bit of the garden was designed by Major Vernon Daniel and Lord Fairhaven.
The sweeping curve is in place so that you can't see the other end
and it leads you through the space.
We've copied last year's planting plan this year
so we've done the same colour palette as the dahlias go through the border.
We're going from red at this end down to the yellows and whites at the other end.
We look after the dahlias by regularly dead-heading them.
We're going to try and make sure they're flowering and looking good for as long as possible.
We would love to have more time in here to keep them tidy and looking at their best
but it does attract a lot of visitors who are really pleased to see them and come and take their pictures.
This is the weird garden.
I don't know why it's called the weird garden, but it's got lots of lovely hellebores that come out
and we've got this beech hedging so it does feel very enclosed and sort of tunnel, cave-like.
Which I quite like.
We're going into the herbaceous border now.
So this area's coming to the end of its season.
Amy, one of our garden team, is in here doing the clear-up at the end of the season.
Amy, can you tell us what you're doing today?
I'm in the herbaceous border and I'm taking out all the stakes
and then I'm going to cut it back and put it to bed for the winter.
So what I'm trying to do is make sure all the plants have got their own space so they're not mixed up together
and making sure that everything that should be there is there
and getting rid of the self-seeded stuff.
The gardens aren't just miraculously beautiful,
it takes a lot of time and a lot of people to do this.
This planting scheme is something that Major Vernon Daniel and Lord Fairhaven would have put in place and it's been maintained ever since.
We've got a really unique type of miniature red-leaved dahlia in here
and legend has it that Lord Fairhaven went to a garden centre and bought the entire stock of this particular variety.
Madame Stappers is our miniature red one and Ella Britton is our yellow one
This late summer sun has really brought on the red flowers of the dahlias so you're seeing the garden at its best.
We're now heading through the woodland path on our way to Pilgrims Lawn.
Here we should see some of the autumn colour as it just starts to come out.
One good thing about the one-way route we've installed is that people are visiting these less-visited spots.
The circle of trees around the island in the middle are the Persian Ironwoods
and they are the ones that are going to go really vibrant with autumn colour this year.
We've also got a Liquidamber just here which is really famous for being a species of tree which will really set off with a real blaze of colour.
This is an area of the garden that we've got planted up with Cyclamen Hederifolium.
Beautiful natural-looking drifts.
At the end of the year we're hoping to collect a lot of the seeds up and plant up and propagate our own to enhance the display for future years.
As you walk though here at this time of year, there's a really beautiful strong, sweet fragrance coming through.
Some people have described it as a little bit like parma violets, but it's definitely a sweet perfume.
So that's only going to last as long as the flowers do unfortunately so by November they'll all be gone.
Now we're going really behind-the-scenes. This is our nursery where we grow all our dahlias at the start of the year.
We also grow a few extras in the background which are taken for cut flowers
and put around the property to brighten the place up.
We have managed to propagate some plants this year for growing in the garden
and we're really hoping to push on next year to do much more propagation in this space.
By growing our own stock on this site, either by seed collection or propagation from cuttings
we can keep much better control of stopping the spread of pests and diseases coming into the garden.
This is where we make all our compost.
The left hand bay is full of our all wood chip.
At the moment this is all our fresh stuff
the right-hand bay is full of stuff which is almost ready to be used on the beds.
It's really important for us to make our own compost on site.
This reduces our expense and it's all about the best way for us to process our green waste on site.
Thank you for coming, I hope you've enjoyed your tour around today.
Your continued support helps me and my team look after this special space.