Weichert place is a manor, an old mansion of the XVI century and the gardens, mostly of the twentieth century, located near the village Ardingly in West Sussex. The gardens are part of the Royal Botanic gardens cover an area of two square kilometers. Basically, the gardens were created by Gerald Loder, first Baron Watherston, who purchased the estate in 1903 and 33 years of dedicated planning, planting and garden care. His successor was sir Henry Price who in 1963 bequeathed the gardens to the state, and in 1965 the gardens came under the guardianship of the Royal Botanic gardens. Now Weichert place is owned by the National Trust of great Britain.

In Weichert place grows the biggest Christmas tree in the UK – a giant Sequoia with a height of 35 meters, which on the eve of Christmas lights 1800 light bulbs.

Here is the national collection of different types of birches, beeches, St. John's wort and skimmia. Also in Weichert place is the Millennium Seed Bank storage of seeds of different plant species. Seeds are dried, placed in glass vessels and stored in underground storage at -20 degrees Celsius. Experts say that such seeds will be suitable for cultivation for many years, so you can restore the plants disappeared from the face of the earth. The seed Bank was founded in 2000, so it is called the Millennium Seed Bank. This is an international project, it involved many different countries. Now in the store collected several million seeds 24 000 species of plants (10% of all plants of the earth).