June 5, 2006
Our tours for 2006 are up now and we invite you to look and book because they are indeed booking now.
We felt it was also time after 9 years to give them the prominence they deserved so we have put them all on
www.gardeningtours.com
We spend many hours putting these unique tours together each year, and each year they are different! Please go to our new site to see the complete tours but here is a taste for you...
The offering for 2006 is
Brighton Garden Delights & The Chelsea Flower Show - May 18-26th, 2006. TOUR CLOSED FOR 2006. This Chelsea tour includes gardens around one of the most beautiful and popular seaside resorts in Britain - Brighton!
Our time will be spent here relaxing and enjoying the area sights and gardens, then it's off to London to be dazzled and delighted. We end this memorable tour with the most famous of garden shows, Chelsea. We will visit Royal Brighton Pavillion, Leonardslee, Nyman Garden, Wakehurst Place, Wisley, Hidcote, Kiftsgate plus have a leisure day in London to discover this incredible city for yourself.
Garden Gems of London & Paris and Chelsea Flower Show - May 26-June 3, 2006.
TOUR CLOSED FOR 2006.
What could be more romantic than London and Paris! Our 10th Chelsea tour includes the gardens around two of the most beautiful and exciting cities in the world. You will experience two very different cultures and delight in their history and architecture on your leisure days in both. The hotels we have chosen complement the elegance of each city.
We visit Sissinghurst Castle (home of Vita Sackville-West), Great Dixter (home of Christopher Lloyd), the Chateau de Versailles, Claude Monet's Giverny and the gardens at Hotel Baudy where we will enjoy lunch and their rose gardens. We will enjoy the day at Chelsea plus we travel between both cities on the Eurostar through the chunnel.
Gardens of Cote d'Azur and Tuscany - September 16-26th, 2006
THREE SPACES LEFT. This, our final tour of 2006 is magical. The gardens of the Cote d'Azur and Tuscany are special and the autumn is a wonderful time to visit. Around Nice we visit Eze, Fragonard, Serre de la Madone Garden, William Waterfield Garden, Grasse, Les Cedres, Villa Ephrussi de Rothschild (lunch there too!) and Hanbury Botanic Garden. In Florence we visit Boboli Gardens, Villas Mansi and Torrigiani in Lucca. Enjoy leisure days in both to discover great shopping, museums, concerts and the breathtaking sights each city has to offer.
On the new site you will find the complete itinerary for each tour, along with the reservation form and phone numbers needed. You will also find my email so that if you have any questions you can send them along to me. I hope you like the look. It is quite different from ICanGarden.
Each year we welcome old friends and new ones...I hope this tour year is your tour year with us!
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