Garden tours

Enjoy the best gardens with our expert guides and revel in the colour, variety and sheer beauty of British gardens, both public and private. We aim to include a mix of the most attractive public gardens and some equally interesting private ones. Public gardens often neighbour stunning country houses, which you will often be able to visit as an alternative (admission not included). You can enjoy these tours on different levels - the gardens are all beautiful to look at, so you don't need prior knowledge.

Colourful fucshia in flower
  • Colourful fucshia in flower
  • stone statue in a stone niche in a garden
  • A narrow garden path being taken over by beautiful flowers in all the colours of the rainbow
  • The Eden Project with its array of large greenhouse biomes housing all kinds of exotic plants

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Cornwall

7 nights - From £739

The Eden Project with its array of large greenhouse biomes housing all kinds of exotic plants
  • Guided Garden Tour, South West Peninsula
  • Garden tours
  • Lost Gardens of Heligan - England's largest restoration project
  • St Michael's Mount; a unique garden built on terraces, thickly clothed with succulents
  • The spectacular Eden Project

Devon

7 nights - From £739

Green and purple plants and flowers
  • Guided Garden Tour, South West Peninsula
  • Garden tours
  • Castle Drogo with its beautiful herbaceous borders
  • The marvellous plantsman garden at Coleton Fishacre full of great plants
  • Visit delightful Killerton with its vast parkland and grand design

Hampton Court Flower Show

3 nights - From £339

View across the beautiful gardens at Hampton Court towards the palace
  • Hampton Court Flower Show, Southern England
  • Garden tours
  • Special short-break holiday
  • A full day at the Royal Horticultural Society’s Hampton Court Palace Flower Show
  • Visit the impressive 200 acre garden at Borde Hill

Tatton Park Flower Show

3 nights - From £339

A bee collecting pollen from a large pink flower on a garden tour
  • Tatton Park Flower Show, Heart of England
  • Garden tours
  • Special short-break holiday
  • A full-day at the Royal Horticultural Society Flower Show at Tatton Park
  • Visit to Trentham Gardens with its impressive Italian Garden

Northumberland

4 nights - From £429

A stepped fountain in Alnwick
  • Guided Garden Tour, North East Coast
  • Garden tours
  • Alnwick is a world class contemporary garden inspired by the Duchess of Northumberland
  • Cragside House and its formal garden, rockery and fruit glasshouses
  • The superb walled garden at Wallington

Cotswolds

4 to 7 nights - From £499

Green and purple plants and flowers
  • Guided Garden Tour, Heart of England
  • Garden tours
  • Bourton House with its fine topiary knot garden and water features
  • One of England's great gardens at Hidcote Manor designed in the Arts & Crafts style
  • Sudeley Castle which has 14 acres of garden to explore.

Welsh Borders

4 nights - From £429

Close up of a large pink flower with yellow middle
  • Guided Garden Tour, Wales
  • Garden tours
  • Abbey Dore Court with its richly planted garden and trees
  • Hergest Croft gardens; a plantsman’s paradise
  • Weir Garden, a delightful spot beside the River Wye

Lake District

7 nights - From £739

Two round purple flowers on long stems
  • Guided Garden Tour, Lake District
  • Garden tours
  • Sizergh Castle with its rock garden and grassland
  • The formal and woodland gardens of Holker Hall
  • Tour the charming walled garden at Holehird

Scottish Highlands

7 nights - From £739

The pinky purple fluffy heads of thistles on a green background
  • Guided Garden Tour, Scotland
  • Garden tours
  • The glen garden of Crarae; likened to a Himalayan woodland ravine
  • Cross the ‘Bridge over the Atlantic’ to An Cala garden on the Isle of Seil
  • Beautiful Arduaine overlooking the Sound of Jura

Somerset & North Devon

7 nights - From £849

Bright pink rhododendrons
  • Guided Garden Tour, South West Peninsula
  • Garden tours
  • Rosemoor;  The RHS " Wisley of the west"
  • Medieval Cothay Manor with its white, scarlet and purple themed gardens
  • Hestercombe; a stunning garden of pools and mixed planting

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