The Northamptonshire Gardens Trust is an educational charity affiliated to the Association of Gardens Trust.
Since the 1980s Gardens Trusts have been established in almost all the counties of England and Wales, there are now more than 7,000 members nationwide.
Northamptonshire has a wealth of gardens, from the mediaeval deerparks, the great formal layouts of the 16th and 17th centuries and the landscaped parklands of Capability Brown and Humphry Repton to the more modern gardens of equal value.