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2012 Tours for Independent Travellers
We have arranged four sensational tours.
Each meticulously planned to offer you entry to some of France’s most exciting gardens of today.
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£585
Our new three-day tour to these remarkable gardens will take place on
Tuesday 17th April, Wednesday 18th April and Thursday 19th April.
- The perfect time for spring flowering of iris, wisteria, judas trees and Banksia roses.
- Most gardens are completely private and were developed around farmhouses on terraced olive groves. Their remarkable owners or the head gardener will welcome us.
- Fort France – a garden created by Lady Fortescue in the 1930s described in her book ‘Perfume from Provence’, now lovingly restored by Valerie de Courcel, an artist and passionate gardener.
- Fabulous Chateau garden in the hills where Somerset Maughan spent time writing in the summer. Special invitation by the owners whose plant knowledge is amazing.
- Former Grasse perfumer’s garden created around an important villa in the eighteenth century. This garden is never open to visitors – our visit is an exception.
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£445
Our two day tour will take place on
Wednesday, 27th June and Thursday, 28th June
- Five superb private gardens – some of the best of French contemporary gardens.
- Château de Brecy, owned by Monsieur Didier Wirth, National President of the French Association Parcs et Jardins. Sublime garden designed to match the architecture of the chateau.
- A very private garden carefully designed and beautifully planted over nine years. Much admired by Penelope Hobhouse on her visit with us last year.
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£465
Our two-day tour will take place on Tuesday 11th and Wednesday 12th September 2012
- The late Prince Peter Wolkonsky inspired our other garden owners to realize their own vision beside the rocky coastline and misty valleys of this unexplored region. The mild climate and acid soil offer marvellous growing conditions for a huge range of plants which are shown to spectacular effect.
- Prince Wolkonsky created at the Jardins de Kerdalo one of the finest gardens in France. It now spans two generations, resting on the skill and energy of his daughter Isabelle and her husband Timothy Vaughan.
- One completely private garden, created by an internationally admired garden designer and his wife, which was chosen by Christopher Lloyd as his most inspirational garden. Our welcome here is a real privilege.
- The Jardin du Pellinec, a masterpiece made by Gerard Jean over the last sixteen years. He has brilliantly planted rare and exotic varieties around his 17th century home to an unusual light and spacious design. This garden is only open for us this year.
- The remarkable and striking contemporary garden, Le Grand Launay, has been carved to resemble a sculpture garden – the plants pruned to create a work of art.
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£585
Our three-day Ile de France Tours based in Paris
will take place on Wednesday 19th, Thursday 20th and Friday 21st September
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- Three completely private gardens. Their remarkable owners will welcome us by
special invitation.
- Private visit of the stunning water gardens of Château de Courances
- Full day visit to the Plant Show at Château de Saint-Jean de Beauregard, guided visit of
the walled potager garden.
A most enjoyable day at the early autumn Flower, Fruit and Vegetable Show at the seventeenth century Château de Saint-Jean de Beauregard, south west of Paris. We are welcomed on arrival and shown around their remarkable two acre potager garden.
Robin Lane Fox wrote in the
Financial Times
‘Some of the heavenliest [weather] was the day of my visit to the charming flower show at the Château de Saint-Jean de Beauregard near Paris... I went as part of a brief French garden tour with French Gardens Today who took all the bother out of the planning and combined the show with three days of excellent private visiting in the region’. |
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we may not have your email address, so if you would like to
be kept up to date with new tours and any changes in our programme,
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