HESTERCOMBE TO ROSEMOOR: HIDCOTE TO STOWE
"British Gardening Through The Centuries"
April 2011 for two weeks

This British garden tour will leave one week after Easter in 2011 and will be away two weeks.

Our guide will be Lorraine Beswick, a gardener in eastern Canada the past thirty years, noted for her talks and workshops.

Inspiration for gardening comes from many sources. The writings of the British gardener Beth Chatto, was one such for Lorraine, and led her to those of Chatto's contemporaries - Rosemary Verey, Penelope Hobhouse, Roy Genders, Christopher Lloyd, Graham Stuart Thomas and further back in time to the writings of Vita Sackville-West, Eleanor Sinclair Rhodes, Gertrude Jekyll, E.A. Bowles, A.T. Johnson, William Robinson and Robert Fortune. The list could go on.

Suspecting that she is not alone in considering many of these to be 'close friends' and mentors, we now extend an invitation to join us as we visit some of their gardens, walk in person some of their paths and see their imaginings from some of their garden benches. Hestercombe House and Gardens in Taunton, The Bishop's Palace at Wells, East Lambrook Manor,Tintinhull and Rosemoor will be amongst our first stops; our second week will visit Hidcote, Barnsley House , the Oxford Botanical Gardens and Stowe. The list of gardens beckoning is long but the above fit within this year's theme honouring some of our favourite garden authors. Many of these are noted, not only for their contributions to contemporary garden design, but for their collections of primula, hellebores and azaleas, magnolias, early flowering shrubs and trees. With luck, we might just catch some of the last of rich collections of galanthus.

We will rent a mini-bus and in the first week a cottage in Somerset and in the second week a cottage near Oxford. We will eat breakfast in the cottages and have lunch in pubs or cafes. We will dine out or bring in “take out” at dinner. We will take walks and have cream teas in picturesque cafés. Gardens and flowers are not simply gardens and flowers, but also pots and vases, books and music, landscapes, nurseries and flower shops, which continue to inspire. Our days and itinerary will vary and allow for such diversions; for time private and shared.

We have a cost of $3895.00 Canadian. This includes: entrance fees, accommodation, breakfasts, domestic travel and insurance, but not lunches, dinners, international travel, airport taxes, tips and expenses of a personal nature including laundry, telephone and beverages. If you are intrigued or interested please contact us and we will be happy to respond.

A deposit of $500 will hold you a place in this tour.

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