The RHS Chelsea Flower Show and Classic English Gardens

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This tour combines the colour and excitement of the RHS Chelsea Flower Show with some of the south of England’s finest gardens, affording the opportunity to enjoy a wide range of horticultural excellence.

Our two centre holiday includes visits to the RHS Chelsea Flower Show and the unmissable gardens of RHS Garden Wisley, Sissinghurst in Kent and Great Dixter. We then head west, breaking our journey at the beautiful gardens of Wilton House near Salisbury and Henry Hoare’s famous landscape garden of Stourhead.

From our hotel in the West Country we visit the ancient Bishop’s Palace in Wells, the Harold Peto designed garden at Iford Manor and Hestercombe, one of Gertrude Jekyll and Sir Edwin Lutyens’ greatest masterpieces. We also have some time in the town of Bath, famous for its Roman baths and elegant Georgian terraces. We conclude with a wander round Tyntesfield, a fine National Trust Victorian country house with a glorious walled garden, before returning to London.

Tour highlights:

The Great British gardening event of the year, The Chelsea Flower Show
The ornamental and experimental gardens of RHS Wisley
The world-renowned courtyard gardens of Sissinghurst Castle
Temples, urns and grottos in the timeless landscape of Stourhead
Hestercombe Gardens – a horticultural masterpiece from Gertrude Jekyll and Edwin Lutyens

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