High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Wakehurst Place Garden is a garden located at Wakehurst Place in Ardingly, West Sussex in southern England (grid reference TQ340315). It includes walled and water gardens, woodland and wetland conservation areas. It belongs to the National Trust and is managed by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. For the National Trust's 2007 2008 fiscal year Wakehurst Place Garden was the Trust's most visited property for which admission was charged, with over 477,000 visitors.The garden was largely created by Gerald Loder (later Lord Wakehurst) who purchased the estate in 1903 and spent 33 years developing the gardens, which today cover some 2 square kilometres (500 acres). He was succeeded by Sir Henry Price, and the Royal Botanic Gardens took over in 1965. Wakehurst is home to the National Collections of betulas, hypericums, nothofagus and skimmias.