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Garden
Tours for 2012
Groups & Organisations
If you
belong to a group or organisation or you are an individual
who would like a garden tour that includes some or
all of the following:
- Specialist lecturers
- Tour leaders who have horticultural
passion and knowledge
- Private garden visits
- Meet the owner opportunities
- Head Gardener Tours
- Practical demonstrations
- Gardens selected for their
colour and interest according to the season
- Garden and house visits,
including private house tours
Then look no further! Contact us on +44 (0) 1305 259467 or Email
Us
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Holiday with Hillier
Since
2003, Brookland Travel have been arranging a programme
of escorted garden and coach tours for the Hillier Garden Club. This popular
range is available to all members of The Hillier Garden
Club and membership is free no matter where you live.
These tours are very popular. Call 01305 259467 to check availability,
to request further information or to book. See
the “Holiday with Hillier” selection at www.hillier.co.uk or
our summary of these tours.
Joining the Hillier Gardening Club is easy
Just fill in an enrolment form at any of their garden centres. Like ourselves, they even promise not to pass on your details to any other organisation. For more information you can contact them at: |
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Hillier Head Office
The Stables, Ampfield House, Ampfield
Romsey, Hampshire SO51 9BQ
Tel: 01794
368733 • Fax: 01794 367830
Email: Club@hillier.co.uk |
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Garden
Tours For 2012
Holidays
for Garden Lovers
Treat yourself! Whatever your level of gardening knowledge come and join the ever expanding group of travellers enjoying Hillier garden lovers breaks. These great garden breaks are advertised first in the autumn edition of The Hillier Gardening Club Magazine and are booked directly with Brookland Travel. Membership of The Hillier Garden Club is free and entitles you to special offers, gardening talks, events and advice, a very informative seasonal members’ magazine and not forgetting the opportunity to join a Hillier Garden Holiday, operated by Brookland Travel. |
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Hilliers have garden centres in Hampshire, N.E. Somerset, Berkshire, Hertfordshire, Surrey, Sussex and Warwickshire. Call membership on 01794 368966 or email club@hillier.co.uk. Please quote “Brookland Travel” if asked how you heard about The Hillier Garden Club.
Great care is taken to search out the best gardens and to visit them when they are at their best. We try to provide special extras such as private viewings and introductions from the owners and gardeners and also enjoy mixing the types of gardens we visit from large, neatly manicured National Trust properties to more intimate private gardens.
You will be well looked after on these escorted tours with the services of a guide and a Hillier host. Hotels are picked for their good service and executive coaching is provided throughout the coach tour. However, making new friends and enjoying the good companionship of your fellow travellers is what really makes these trips special. Whether travelling on your own or in company, you are sure to enjoy the friendship of your fellow guests. There is usually plenty of space in the coach hold so that you can purchase unusual and interesting plants for your own garden, at the gardens and nurseries we visit.
All coach tours start from Ampfield House, near Romsey, where free parking is available. The cost of all garden entries, tours and most meals are included in the price. Here is a taster of the seven breaks on offer for 2012.
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Gardens of South West Ireland
From The Castle Hotel Macroom **** |
6/10th June 2012 |
We fly from Heathrow to Cork, in the heart of Southern Ireland for a fabulous feast of plants and gardens. Muckross House and Killarney National Park give a taste of the region which has magical gardens: Ilnacullin has an enchanting island setting; Bantry House and Gardens enjoy amazing views out to the Atlantic; Glebe Gardens are pretty organic gardens close to the sea; Lakemount is described as a “Flagship” garden by the RHS and we also visit Lisselan Estate Gardens and the gardens at Ballymaloe that provide produce for the famous Cookery School.
The Castle Hotel in Macroom is a family run 4 star hotel with an AA rosette award winning restaurant. Other facilities include an indoor swimming pool, sauna and spa. |
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Fine Gardens of Kent and Sussex
The Spa Hotel, Royal Tunbridge Wells |
20/23th June 2012
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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. |
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Channel Island Gardens
From The Old Government House Hotel (Luxury hotel),
St Peter Port Guernsey |
2012 date to follow |
This delightful new tour will begin with a crossing in Club Class on Condor Ferries to Guernsey. We shall use smaller coaches and mini buses to negotiate the beautiful but narrow lanes of Guernsey as we search out some very special gardens including Mille Fleurs and Les Videclines Farm. Near our hotel we visit the private gardens of Grange Court and La Petite Vallee.
A short ferry trip away is the unique island of Sark and the garden at La Seigneuries, recognized by the RHS as one of the finest gardens in the Channel Islands. We also visit the island of Herm where the Head Gardener will guide our tour.
The Old Government House Hotel and Spa has operated as a hotel since 1858 but its history dates back to 1796 when it was the official Governor’s residence for the island and the Bailwick, which includes Sark, Herm and Alderney, until 1842. From 1940 to 1945 the Germans occupied it as their General Staff Headquarters but once the war was over, great alterations were made. Now it is a first class hotel and its unique atmosphere of dignity and good fellowship retained.
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Brookland Travel are a special interest tour operator in Dorchester, Dorset, providing
English garden tours,
escorted holidays, coach tours and more
throughout the UK and Europe.
Registered Address: 26 Middlemarsh St, Poundbury, Dorchester, Dorset DT1 3FD. Reg No 03819803
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