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Top marks go to Martin! 👏

Well done to all who correctly identified Winston Churchill as the painter.

😂 Great reply.

A framed painting. It shows a body of water with large green trees and shrubbery around the edge. Light is depicted as bouncing off the water creating a feeling of a shimmering surface.

Do you know who painted this?

Wooden rabbits made out of circular pieces of wood sat within a grassy patch of garden filled with golden daffodils

Daffodils are on display and that means the countdown for days filled with springtime adventures is on.

For those who like to hop to it and get ahead, find inspiration for Easter days out here: buff.ly/5UtceTK

A patterned sofa in a wood panelled room. Either side are shelves packed with books. Wall hangings are behind

If you could spend a day reading in one of the places we care for, which would you choose?

📷The sitting room in South Cottage at Sissinghurst Castle Garden, Kent by James Dobson

Move over Tommy Shelby, we've got some new Peaky Blinders in town! Calke Abbey's team had a go at recreating his iconic walk featured in the trailer for 'Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man', which was filmed on site.

*Out 6 March in select cinemas and 20 March on Netflix. ** Image 1: © Netflix

Nest box surveys, carried out by licensed surveyors, provide the best evidence of how dormice populations are changing. At Nymans, monthly checks take place and recently the first Dormouse was found. It's an encouraging sign as we continue our work to improve biodiversity in our woodlands.

A small dormouse curled up in a nest of dry leaves and twigs

Caution - cute content...

First Hazel dormouse found at Nymans, West Sussex.

📷 Kate Gould

A close-up of a washing line on a sunny day. The clothes are a variety of patterns: colourful houses, purple flowers on a yellow background, and a white item with green and orange flowers

It's almost that time of year again... 👀

Photo: washing on the line at Crook Hall Gardens, Rob Coleman

Bodiam Castle in spring

Welcome to #MedievalMarch exploring some of our medieval places & collections, starting with perhaps the most iconic of castles, Bodiam.

We’re celebrating a significant anniversary - we have cared for the castle for 100 years, since it was bequeathed to @nationaltrust.org.uk in 1926.

#Bodiam100

Oh, that sweet, sweet joy when we can put the 'big coat' away.

Daffodils never fail to make us smile. Their arrival is joyful.

Spring is a mood. We like this.

We like this approach, you can't go wrong.

We're curious, when do you say spring starts? Do you follow the meteorological calendar with the season beginning on 1 March or are you waiting for astronomical spring which is determined by the Earth's tilt as it travels around the Sun? ☀️

The walled garden at Wallington in Northumberland. The sloped green lawn is filled with blooming purple crocuses. It's quite the sight! Beyond the wall at the top of the garden we can just see a brick garden building. It is a slightly grey day but the photo is packed with colour.

A view of the sloped lawn at Wallington in Northumberland. You can't see much of the green lawn because is filled with blooming purple crocuses. It is a slightly grey day but the photo is packed with colour.

We're obsessed with the crocus display at Wallington, Northumberland.

Catch them while you can!

We're very much enjoying colour-filled walks taking in these spring sights.

We're not aware that she did make this but would also love to think of her spending time crafting this for her much-loved holiday home.

A collapsed stone pillbox uncovered by coastal erosion at the bottom of a sandy cliff (BBC News/Luke Walton)

Recent storms have revealed more Second World War coastal defences, including a beehive-type pillbox at Low Newton-by-the-Sea in Northumberland. 🧵

Sound on 🎧to join our collaborative PhD student Ruth on her research trip to Tyntesfield last week!

This silver-covered prayer book was copied in France in the early 16th century. We think it's probably the National Trust's most beautiful medieval book...

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📸Daisy Gibbs

A circular decorative mosaic sign. It has Greenway House in capital lettering and a depiction of the large white house with trees and a pathway running to it.

And #MosaicMonday rolls round once more. We couldn't resist sharing this photo of a decorative nameplate from Agatha Christie's holiday home in Devon.

📷Nadia Mackenzie

Powis Castle stands talll on top of a hill, daffodils grow in the garden below

The house at Bodnant Garden viewed across a large expanse of grass with daffodils blooming

Dyfryn Gardens with the house and daffodils bathed in sunshine

A child is stood on top of hay bales with the Welsh flag placed in them

Dydd Gŵyl Dewi Hapus | Happy St David’s Day

Here’s to Cymru! The nation’s language, traditions, culture, and the heritage that connects us. From dragons to daffodils, Wales’ story is told through the places we look after.

Photos: Powis Castle, Bodnant Gardens, Dyffryn Gardens, Chirk Castle.

A brick country house of three floors which looks across a grass lawn that is filled with crocuses in bloom. They are all purple - apart from one white one in the middle!

Please enjoy this view of the crocuses at Ham House, Richmond.

📷Hannah Mawdsley

‘The Six Seasons’ curated by Emily Allchurch and James Freeman (James Freeman Gallery), is at Upton House and Gardens, Warwickshire from 8 March – 5 July.

A painting of rolling hills on a sunny day. From a high vantage point we see many people working the land in different ways, they are carrying tools, baskets, tending to horses and cutting crops. Across the landscape are houses of different size.

A digital artwork showing rolling hills on a sunny day. From a high vantage point we see a wheelbarrow planted up with poppies, people on bicycles, camping and admiring the view. Across the landscape we see small houses, churches and a tractor working in a field.

A painting of a landscape on a moody day. A small group of people herd cows through trees. We see a river snaking through the lowland.

A digital artwork of a hillside where a lone cow stands by a fence, a woman is walking her dog along a permissive footpath. A motorway snakes through the low land. We can see a camping site with motorhomes parked up.

In ‘The Six Seasons – Early Summer (after Bruegel)’ Bruegel’s haymakers have been exchanged for hikers and campers in a lush Shropshire landscape, while the river in Bruegel’s Autumn has become the M5, today’s equivalent of a trade highway.

A painting of a winter scene. We see houses on a holl with snow-covered roofs. Water has frozen to create ice to skate on. Groups of people huddle by fires to keep warm and two figures walk with a pack of dogs.

A digital artwork showing a snowy scene. Houses have snow on the roof, snowmen have been built and groups of people walk towards iced areas to skate.

Probably the best-known painting in Bruegel’s series, ‘Hunters in the Snow' records the harshest winter in a period known as the 'Little Ice Age'. The updated scene shows us East Sussex, where 'snow days' are increasingly rare and bring with them the chance of leisure, rather than a sense of threat.

It's Bruegel, but not as you know it...

More than 450 years ago, Pieter Bruegel the Elder created a series of six paintings of the seasons to hang in the dining room of an Antwerp merchant. Now, Sussex artist Emily Allchurch has used photographs of the English landscape to create an updated view.

small fungi with vivid red cups in the woodland

Could spring be just around the corner? Scarlet elf cups are emerging in the woods at Hudswell, North Yorkshire - a vibrant sign of winters end and a brilliant splash of colour on the woodland floor.

📷 Seb Mankelow

An old leather desk chair of pale green. On the seat pad is a sign that reads 'I'm older than I look. Please don't sit on me'

'Please don't sit on me'

📷 Spotted at Souter Lighthouse, Tyne and Wear

An aerial view of a flooded river valley with rolling green downland above the floodwaters. The surviving earthworks of the medieval settlement can be clearly seen in this image, on the spur of land on the right of the photo.

This morning we're sharing this stunning aerial view of #FrogFirle in the flooded Cuckmere Valley, in E Sussex. The earthworks of the medieval settlement have recently been investigated as part of #ChangingChalk - find out more: heritagerecords.nationaltrust.org.uk/HBSMR/MonRec...
📷Ian in London