With summer just around the corner, perfect picnic locations and calming country walks are in demand as couples, families and friends plan their days out.

The National Trust have released profiles on idyllic locations across the county which will help residents make the best use of the summer sun.

Every visit to a National Trust site helps support the charity’s work to care for special places for future generations.

The National Trust say High Wycombe’s Hughenden Manor, which is open daily from 10am to 5.30pm, has been restored in recent years to reflect the colourful creation of Mary-Anne Disraeli, wife of the Victorian Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli.

This year is the tenth anniversary of Hughenden’s walled garden which has been transformed by volunteers over the last decade into a thriving Victorian kitchen garden offering fruits and other summer produce.

Greys Court, in Henley-on-Thames is arguably the prettiest in the National Trust, with a series of room-like walled gardens set against the backdrop of a medieval tower and romantic ruins.

The gardens, which are open daily from 10am to 5pm, are largely the creation of Lady Brunner, who lived at Greys Court until she died aged 98 in 2003.

Cliveden near Maidenhead, open daily from 10am to 5.30pm, offers a variety of different gardens with the main garden itself.

The Victorian-inspired summer planting on Cliveden’s parterre is at its best in summer according to the trust and the rose garden is filled with a wide range of colours from pale creams, to yellows, oranges and deep crimson.

Cliveden even runs garden tours on Tuesdays from 2pm in July.

For more information about these National Trust sites or other around the country visit http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/days-out.