Our garden tours are fully escorted by hand picked tour guides or garden experts. Brookland Travel offer a first class UK or European garden coach tour.

Hillier Head Office
The Stables, Ampfield House, Ampfield
Romsey, Hampshire SO51 9BQ
Tel:  01794 368733 • Fax: 01794 367830
Email: Club@hillier.co.uk

Lakeland Garden Tours in The Spring
The Beech Hill Hotel

Travel with Andy McIndoe to Cumbria where there are so many magnificent gardens, many of them influenced by their inspiring setting, amongst the fells and mountains of the Lake District. We will attend Andy’s lecture for members of The Lakeland Horticultural Society and tour their garden, Holehird, which consists of ten acres situated high above Windermere. There are visits to private gardens such as Graythwaite Hall near Grange over Sands, a wooded garden renowned for its collections of rhododendron and azaleas and en route to The Lakes there will be a private visit to Arabella Lennox-Boyd’s stunning garden at Gresgarth Hall.

The Malvern Spring Show and Welsh Border Garden Tours
The Feathers Hotel, Ludlow

30 acres of gardening paradise at Malvern and some carefully selected private and better known gardens, scattered around the Welsh Borders, proved to be a great success for garden club members in 2009. The historic market town of Ludlow and the Feathers Hotel were also appreciated and so for 2010 we return with just a few changes!

By popular demand there will be some free time to explore Ludlow plus some new private garden visits to Highnam Court Garden, Stockton Bury Garden and Colesbourne Park. The Van Kampfen Garden at Hampton Court, Hergest Croft and Burford House also feature in this exciting programme.

The National Botanic Garden and Gardens of South Wales
The Swansea Marriott Hotel

We will take a tour around the world’s largest single span glasshouse and wonder at the plants, landscapes and waterfalls normally found in threatened Mediterranean environments. There is much more to discover within the surrounding parkland. Our location at Swansea Waterfront makes a pleasant base for this three night tour which also includes Dyffren Gardens, arguably one of the most important Edwardian gardens of its era and Veddw House Garden, a highly acclaimed garden in Monmouthshire. We visit private gardens and nurseries near Swansea and also Aberglasney, gardens that were “lost in time” and restored to their former glory.

Fine Gardens of Kent and Sussex
The Spa Hotel, Royal Tunbridge Wells

In 2010, we return to Kent to visit two of the county’s renowned gardens – Sissinghurst and Great Dixter plus new and varied horticultural delights such as Derek Jarman’s famous seaside single garden at Dungeness and The Salutation Garden, a hidden treasure in Sandwich. We visit to the stylish, and generously planted private garden of Old Place Farm and we also meet Sarah Raven and tour her famous ‘Cutting Garden’. Lovely Pashley Manor Garden, a winner of the HHA / Christie’s Garden of the Year Award and fragrant with roses and lavender in June, is also included in this programme.

Summer Garden Tours in The Shires
The Wroxton House Hotel, Nr Banbury

A super short gardening break that includes an afternoon at Cottesbrooke Hall’s Plant Finder’s Fair and visits to superb private plants man’s gardens at Pettifers and The Old Rectory at Sudborough. We will tour the beautiful gardens at Coton Manor when they are closed to the public and we break our journey home with visits to Hidcote Manor Garden, one of the most famous gardens in the country, and nearby Kiftsgate Court.

North Yorkshire Garden Tours
The Old Swan Hotel, Harrogate

From the RHS’s first garden of the North of England at Harlow Carr to a magnificent private hillside terrace garden in the Yorkshire Dales, this three night break offers a taste of this regions horticultural excellence. En route to Harrogate we stop at Coton Manor in Northamptonshire, a peaceful 10 acre garden comprising distinctive smaller gardens, flowing streams, fountains and ponds. On the following day we enjoy a scenic drive through the Yorkshire Dales for a private tour of the spectacular gardens at Parcevall Hall. and we visit Newby Hall at Ripon to explore 25 acres of award winning gardens. Wytherstone Gardens , created by Lady Clarissa Collins is another exceptional private garden included in this programme and we explore the link between Wytherstone and Castle Howard, famous for its rose garden in June and July.

Norfolk Garden Tours
The Holiday Inn, Norfolk

Almost the same itinerary as 2010 but with a personally guided tour at East Ruston Vicarage Garden led by one of the owners, Alan Robeson. This garden is truly the highlight of the whole tour for most people and therefore we have decided to extend and enhance the stay with lunch also included. From the outstanding, colour-gorged gardens at East Ruston to the rambling naturalistic planting of the Millennium Garden at Pensthorpe and the unlikely tropical plants waiting to be discovered in the intimate setting of Will Giles’s Exotic Garden, there is sure to be several visits in this plant lover’s paradise to delight and inspire. En route to and from Norfolk we visit RHS Hyde Hall Garden and Beth Chatto’s Garden.