Award for Arundel Castle's fairytale garden

The Collector Earl's Garden, at Arundel Castle, which has been described by Prince Charles as "something of enormous beauty", came out on top in the landscape and gardening category.

Judges said: "Part of the former walled garden of the castle, until recently a Tarmac car park, has been brilliantly converted to a pleasure garden of theatrical fantasy."

The garden, the brainchild of the Duchess of Norfolk, was designed by Julian and Isabel Bannerman, and was inspired by the 14th Earl of Arundel's love of art.

The centrepiece is Oberon's Palace, complete with the fairy king's crown floating atop a jet of water.

It was officially opened by the Prince of Wales in May last year, and will be used as the setting for open-air Shakespeare performances during the Arundel Festival next month.

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