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**Looking for the Best British Garden Tour**
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Posted by Susan82 So. CA (My Page) on Tue, Oct 23, 01 at 2:17
Love ROSES and English Gardens! Am researching for
next years' trip, but there are so many ~ how do
I choose?! Sisley, Expo, Boxwood...help!
Would love some feedback. Looking
for higher-end accomodations.
Thanks,
Susan in CA |
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RE: **Looking for the Best British Garden Tour**
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| If you find a tour that includes Sudley Gardens they have a really outstanding rose garden there. |
RE: **Looking for the Best British Garden Tour**
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| Susan we found the gardens at Hampton Court and the home of Princess Diana and Prince Charles.It's a Palace but I can't spell it right it starts with a K and is a Place. At both places and I'm not bragging on this but we had no idea we had roses by our last name there.I picked up a small flower book and started looking through it and I found some Harkness Roses in it.The lady behind the counter told us to go around back and she was sure there were some and sure enough they were there and we didn't know it. We found them also in a garden around Windsor Castle I think that was the place as it was where the trian for the royal family comes into. There is a garden there also. The flowers that are around ANN HAYAWAY'S house is beautiful and go to the tea room across the street there are pretty flowers and roses there also. We were there in 98 and we went on a bus tour called Cosmo out of Colorado I think as our travel agent set us up with them. Good luck on your tour, Vicky Harkness |
RE: **Looking for the Best British Garden Tour**
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I can recommend 2 areas for garden visiting. Cornwall is our favourite area. You can't go wrong by visiting the many National Trust sites. They do have a web site you can visit. You can also rent properties from them. Some of the best to visit are: Llanydrock, particularly in the spring when the azaleas and rhodedendrons are magnificent, Cothele, Glendurgan, Trelissick. Some others ones are; Trebah, The Lost Gardens of Heligan (magnificent). The Eden project is supposed to be magnificent, 3 large biodomes built over old clay pits each with plants from different temperate zones. We intend to visit this spring.
If you are visiting the Midlands (my home)around the region of Stratford on Avon I would recommend Hidcote Manor Gardens and literally just over the road from there,Kiftsgate Court. Also, Baddesley Clinton, Packwood House, Coughton Court, Warwick Castle, Upton House. There are so many to choose from.
Another recommendation is to visit any of the Royal Horticultural Society sites.
Hope you enjoy your trip.
Regards
Elaine Lawrence |
RE: **Looking for the Best British Garden Tour**
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| You may be interested in this forum's messages (see useful link). Sissinghurst in Kent (about an hour from London) has been highly recommended for old roses and I have visited Mottisfont which was excellent and contains Grahan S Thomas's rose collection. Both are National Trust properties (www.nationaltrust.org.uk) |
Here is a link that might be useful: Sissinghurst: Best Gardens in SE England
RE: **Looking for the Best British Garden Tour**
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| I went on a Coopersmith's tour of southwest England and it was wonderful -- they have three to England this year. The one in May includes the Chelsea Flower Show. |
Here is a link that might be useful: Tours
RE: **Looking for the Best British Garden Tour**
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| Bill Grant is leading his final tour of English gardens in June. Should be fantastic! |
Here is a link that might be useful: Bill's website
RE: **Looking for the Best British Garden Tour**
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For rose lovers, especially OGRs, two gardens are absolutely essential. Firstly, Sissinghurst in Kent, the stunning garden of Vita Sackville West, which has a good selection of roses immaculately trained, many in old fashioned style pegged down on hazel 'benders'- which are fascinating in the spring when they look like lobster pots. The gardeners have a prize for the person who's rose is the most perfectly trained. Ofcourse come June the result is even more exquisite. Sissinghurst is special because it is interesting at all times of year with a select range of plants beautifully placed and cared for. There are some magnificent climbing roses, notably Madame A Carriere and Alan Chandler, which are huge old specimens towering up the mellow brick walls.
My other recommendation is Mottisfont Abbey in Hampshire, where Graham Stuart Thomas has brought together a wonderful collection of old fashioned roses within a large walled garden, giving lots of opportunities for lovely climbers, with pergolas for the ramblers and an extensive collection of shrub roses with some pretty herbaceous plants to provide a foil.
These are both run by the National Trust (www.nationaltrust.org.uk)
One event which is lovely to attend is the special rose days at Pashley Manor, which is in East Sussex and within easy reach of Sisssinghurst. On 22 June 2002 Peter Beales will be conducting tours of the garden, and there are usually special rose displays in the house and roses for sale. (www.pashleymanorgardens.com)
I live just three miles from Sissinghurst so if you need any help on the many gardens close by also worth visiting, please do get in touch.
Enjoy your holiday planning!
David |
RE: **Looking for the Best British Garden Tour**
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| Be overwhelmed by roses at The Gardens of the Rose, the headquarters of the Royal National Rose Society near St Albans in Hertfordshire. |
RE: **Looking for the Best British Garden Tour**
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| I had the good fortune to go on a one day tour of Sissinghurst and Iden Croft Herb Garden with David Green who runs Sissinghurst Garden Tours. We had perfect weather and the roses were absolutely stunning. The rambling rose in the centre of the white garden at Sissinghurst was smothered in bloom and the perfumes in the rose garden were superb. We even bumped into the Head Gardener for a chat - and she identified Lavander Lassie as the rose which was so weighed down with blossom that the bush needed staking. A truly lovely rose and a modern shrub that repeats well. David is running his first 'big' tour in September - so you may be interested for future reference. I can certainly recommend him. |
Here is a link that might be useful: Sissinghurst Garden Tours
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