garden tours

arts & crafts and gardens I – the cotswolds

3 day tour
The new aesthetic approach and more relaxed lifestyle favoured by Morris & Co. was quickly transposed into a new generation of gardens

arts & crafts and gardens II – hampshire & southern england

3 day tour - visiting
Standen
Goddards
Weald & Downland Open Air Museum
The Manor House, Upton Grey
Hinton Ampner

buckinghamshire houses and gardens

3 day tour - visiting
Clivedon
Stowe Landscape Gardens
Waddesdon Manor
Manor House Garden, Bledlow
Ewelme Church

essex & suffolk gardens

3 day tour - visiting
Beth Chatto Garden
The Gibberd Garden
Audley End
RHS Hyde Hall Garden
Somerleyton Hall & Gardens

west midlands gardens – shropshire & staffordshire

3 day tour - visiting
Biddulph Grange Garden NT
Shugborough NT
David Austen Rose Garden
Weston Park
Wollerton Old Hall Gardens

dublin & dublin bay gardens

4 day tour by air (also available as 5 day tour by ferry)
The mild climate by the Irish Sea has been exploited by city gardeners and Anglo-Irish grandees alike

normandy - chateaux & gardens

5 day tour based in Rouen and Caen
Monet made a virtue of necessity at Giverny but Normandy is well endowed with other fine gardens, many attached to historic properties