The best web site for planning garden visits, including opening times, admission rates and all you need to plan your visits.
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This site is the companion to the much acclaimed Gardens to Visit 2009 book and will provide you with all the information you need to plan visits to 200 of the finest gardens in Great Britain and Ireland. As you can see from these images, Britain is home to some of the most beautiful gardens in the world.
This web site also provides details on exclusive short break garden tours and these can be accessed by clicking the 'Garden Tours' button in the menu down the left hand side of this page. From this menu you can also access information on talks and lectures undertaken by BBC Garden writer, broadcaster and editor of Gardens to Visit, Tony Russell as well as details on his many books and publications.
Please click one of the maps to go directly to the gardens pages
Garden of the Month
Sir Harold Hillier’s Gardens Winter Garden
Garden Tours with
Brightwater Holidays
Brightwater Holidays is the UK’s leading specialist Garden Tour Operator. Their fully inclusive itineraries combine famous and grand properties with small and private gardens – most also visit specialist nurseries.
We travel by coach, rail and air to exotic overseas destinations, throughout continental Europe and the length and breadth of the British Isles, usually in the company of an expert horticulturalist.
For further information please click here
Sir Harold Hillier Gardens is one of the most important
modern plant collections in the world. Established in 1953
by the distinguished plantsman Sir Harold Hillier, the
magnificent collection of over 42,000 plants from temperate regions around the world grows in a variety of superb themed landscapes set over 180-acres of rolling
Hampshire countryside.
The Cotswolds’ Finest Gardens:
Recently Published.
The first major book on Cotswold gardens for almost 15 years is published November 16th. The Cotswolds’ Finest Gardens, written by Tony Russell, features 50 of the regions best loved gardens, including Abbey House Gardens, Buscot Park, Hidcote Manor, Kiftsgate Court, Sezincote and Sudeley Castle.
The Western Daily Press featured The Cotswold’s Finest Gardens in a recent interview with Tony Russell who talks about how he first became interested in gardening and how he came to write this book.
Please click on the picture above to download a PDF copy so you can read more.
Please mention www.gardenstovisit.net when you book your visit