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English Garden Tours and Garden Holidays

We create unique garden holidays and tours in the South of England. Our garden tours combine contemporary events whilst visiting some of the oldest historical attractions in Britain. You can visit beautiful, well known and not so well known gardens and houses where you can meander around at your leisure and marvel at the history that lies therein.

  • Want to delight your senses at the world famous Chelsea Flower Show?
  • Want to see the pageant that is the Windsor Castle Royal Tattoo?
  • Want to taste English wine and visit a Great Hall where Shakespeare performed?
  • Want to experience British horse racing and visit a 400 year old house on the River Thames?

You do?  Then our garden holidays are for you!

Contact: +44 20 3239 9557 info@gardenvisiting.com

You can walk in the footsteps of the Kings and Queens whilst visiting the cream of British gardens. Whether you are a keen gardener or an armchair garden lover with an interest in British history and heritage, we will have a tour for you.

Water garden at Waterperry Gardens in OxfordshireWe organise garden tours from April to December, they are designed to show you the highlights of the different seasons in British gardens. We also include unusual contemporary events and attractions to engage others that may not be such garden or history lovers.

Whatever your interest, GardenVisiting looks forward to welcoming you and making your garden tour an experience to remember. Spend four days with us being amazed, pampered and delighted!

New for 2011

We have many new features for 2011 including horse drawn carriage rides in the Royal Landscape, Hampton Court Flower Show, a local brewery visit and a ghostly Halloween tour. We are now taking bookings for our new Spring and Summer garden tours, featuring world famous Chelsea Flower Show, the Windsor Royal Tattoo and, in June, a feast of British Rose Gardens.

Download the Garden Visiting 2011 PDF Brochure to see our full programme for 2011.

Take advantage of our early booking discounts, see individual tours for further details.

Self-Drive Tours

Prefer to drive yourself? We can now offer a self-drive option for all of our 2011 tours. So, we book all the hotels, on a bed and breakfast basis, gardens and attractions for you, all you have to do is arrange your own transport for the duration of the tour.

Download the Garden Visiting Price List 2011 PDF which gives full details of both our self drive and fully inclusive options.

Also new for 2011 are our featured competitions, the first one which we ran in January, was won by Maryke Wright in South Africa. She was happy to be the proud winner of a 12 month free subscription to the English Garden magazine. GardenVisiting will be running further competitions during the Spring, check back here for a chance to win tickets to Hampton Court Flower show and other exciting prizes, or visit our Facebook page.

Why Garden Visiting?

Booking one of our tours will give you a true and unique British experience.  For your comfort and enjoyment all of our tours feature:

  • superior hotel accommodation
  • small groups with private transfers by luxury mini coach
  • compact and unusual itineraries
  • gardens selected for their interest according to the season
  • in compliance with the PTR act, customers payments are fully protected with Failsafe Insurance cover.

You can browse our site by looking at our Garden Visiting tours, or if you want to know more about the gardens, you can read about them in our featured gardens list. If you have visited one of our featured gardens recently, we would love to hear your views.

Have a look at GardenVisiting’s blog, where we  update you with what’s happening around the gardens of Britain from our first hand visits and photos.

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