John Sales VMH, gardener (May 1, 1933 - December 29, 2022)
For 25 years, from 1973-98, he was in charge of the National Trust’s parks and gardens, at a time when the nation embraced garden visiting on a scale never seen before.
Donald Sales’s time as head of gardens left the trust with the healthiest, best managed, historically and stylistically most diverse portfolio of gardens the world may ever know.
A walled garden at Nymans, West Sussex - The 14th-century moated Scotney Castle, Kent - Westbury Court, Gloucestershire - Tatton Park, Knutsford, Cheshire - The formal cherry garden at Ham House, Richmond upon Thames - Powis Castle and Garden, in Powys - Biddulph Grange Garden, Staffordshire - The gardens at Erdigg, Wrexham - Tatton Park, Knutsford, Cheshire - The restored Dutch water garden at Westbury Court, Gloucestershire.
