Gardening Tours - England’s Finest Gardens & Chelsea Flower Show 2010

May 25th - June 2nd, 2010
UPDATE – TOUR IS CLOSED - PLEASE CHECK CHELSEA 2011.

Unpack that bag, because you are in just one hotel for the entire tour .. in London, where you will find some of the best attractions in the world, some of the most beautiful buildings in the world, and some of the most incredible gardens in the world…and on this tour, we have chosen the best for you. I have seen many of England’s gardens over the years and this sampling will truly give you a flavour of what English gardens are like. Come along with us and see what we have seen.

LATEST UPDATES FROM LONDON

The crème de la crème of the garden world will be wowing visitors at the 2010 RHS Chelsea Flower Show. Leading designers such as Tom Stuart-Smith, Tom Hoblyn, James Wong and Andy Sturgeon will all be designing show gardens this year. It's shaping up to be another top year with cutting edge design ideas, coupled with contemporary planting schemes. There's sure to be something to delight everyone.

The largest show garden… ever

The Eden Project garden, Places of Change, will be the largest show garden ever built at Chelsea. The Eden Project's Paul Stone is coordinating a team of experienced and novice garden designers on the project. These include amateur designers from the UK’s homeless centres.

A gravel garden inspired from all corners of the world

Andy Sturgeon is designing a contemporary gravel garden for the Daily Telegraph this year. He takes his inspiration from the Maquis shrubland of the Mediterranean, the Chaparral of California and Mexico, the Matorral of central Chile and Fynbos from the Southern Cape.

A vision of romance and elegance for Laurent-Perrier

Tom Stuart-Smith, who has won nine Gold medals and three best in shows, will create a visionary garden of romance and elegance for Laurent-Perrier, that offers a private, intimate space for entertainment or quiet reflection. The centrepiece of this modern garden will be a bronze pavillion designed by award winning architect Jamie Fobert.

2009 People's Choice award-winner returns

Robert Myers, who has won four Gold medals and the RHS People’s Choice 2009 award, returns for a sixth time, designing a garden for Cancer Research UK. Robert has designed an ornamental urban roof garden which celebrates the increased understanding of the causes, diagnosis and treatment of cancer, offering a beacon of hope.

The Garden Museum will open a new exhibition — Christopher Lloyd: A Life at Great Dixter.

The exhibition will present the life and work of Christopher Lloyd, bringing together personal objects from Great Dixter, recollections and stories from friends and colleagues, examples of his writing and pictures of his garden. It will be the first time that this selection of Christopher Lloyd's possessions, and those of his family, have been on public display, including his gardening galloshes and his Glyndebourne shoes, designs by architect Sir Edwin Lutyens and photographs from the family's private darkroom.

What are you waiting for…


The RHS Chelsea Flower Show is the ultimate event in the gardening year. It sets the latest gardening trends, features the newest and most desirable gardening products and creates an explosion of colours and scents. Make this the year that YOU discover Chelsea!

‘I LOVED the tour. I really enjoyed all of the gardens and Chelsea has been a dream for many many years. Your tips about seeing Chelsea were all bang on, and thank goodness for them! The phrase I use to describe my mood during the entire tour is "pure bliss". Each and every day was fabulous! Thanks so much for all your hard work organizing this tour, it was a wonderful life enhancing time for me. Sandi, Chelsea guest 2009

Please click on the button below and it will take you to the full day by day itinerary. These itineraries are excellent keepsakes of your tour and contain lots of information on the gardens. We recommend that you bring it with you. When you print it out the registration comes along with it and all you have to do is fill the form in and fax it to the number listed, then relax as you know you will be on the tour with me.

Please visit the www.icangarden.com  site and see the past tours that we have taken under the pix area…you can also see some of our comments received on past tours on this site…

• Full day at Wisley
• Full day at Chelsea with show programme
• Visit to Denmans Gardens with Afternoon Tea
• Visit to Borde Hill Gardens
• Hop on Hop off Tour Bus Pass for London
• Visit to Museum of Garden History
• Leisure Day Travel Card
• Visit to Chelsea Physic Garden
• Visit to Kew Gardens
• Visit to Sissinghurst Castle & Gardens
• Visit to Great Dixter House & Gardens.
  
   

The most important trip you may take in life is meeting people halfway
.... Henry Boye
 

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