National Trust garden teams have, for the 15th-year running, been out and about counting blooms in their gardens.

Despite Storm Ciara and thanks to a lack of frost and snow, teams have reported 2663 plants in bloom an increase of 13 per cent on 2019.

Tommy Teagle, Head Gardener for Lanhydrock said: ‘The flower count really marks the start of our season of blooms at Lanhydrock. We have seen more than 155 species in flower, 84 of them different varieties of Camellia in the garden.’

Gardens in Cornwall have seen an increase of 15 per cent more blooms than last year, and Devon have gone up by 8 per cent. Trelissick has the most blooms out in Cornwall followed by Lanhydrock.