Scheduled Tours of English Gardens 2008
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Spring in Somerset, Devon & Cornwall - six days
Wednesday 23rd – Monday 28th April -
Spring in the Lake District and Yorkshire - six days
Sunday 4th – Friday 9th May - Cotswold Gardens - a four day tour
Wednesday 14th – Saturday 17th MayChelsea Flower Show runs 20–24th May
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Romantic Gardens of Kent, Sussex and Surrey - three or six days
Saturday 14th – Thursday 19th June
If you want a three day tour, you may join us for first or last three days of the tour -
Rose Tour in the Southern Counties
Saturday 21st – Thursday 26th June
If you want a three day tour, you may join us for first or last three days of the tour -
Hampton Court Palace Flower Show, Surrey and Sussex Gardens – three or six days
Monday 7th – Friday 11th July
a five day tour visiting the show on the 10th
If you want a three day tour, you may join us for first or last three days of the tour -
Gardens of Cambridge and East Anglia
Thursday 17th – Tuesday 22nd July
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Gardens of Cambridge and East Anglia
Thursday 11th – Tuesday 16th September
These tours may be run on other dates, by request, for groups of six or more people. See also our list of suggested special tours.
It is usual to arrive in the hotel the evening before the first tour day
Barbara, your enthusiasm, your knowledge of plants and English history, and your kindness meant we could not have asked for a more perfect guide for all those beautiful gardens we visited.
- Kim Schauer from Virginia,
Prices 2008
For small groups. Personalised guiding with a briefing and historical slide talk in the evening. Price includes two, four or five nights en suite accommodation; breakfast; all transport on tour and garden entrance fees
Cotswold and Cambridge Tours
These tour prices include hotel B&B and evening dinner:| Three days | US $1015 | UK £507 | Four days | US $1354 | UK £677 |
| Six days | US $2030 | UK £1015 |
Other Scheduled Three, Five or Six Day Garden Tours
These tours do not include evening meals
| Three Day Tour | US $888 | UK £444 |
| Five Day Tour | US $1480 | UK £740 |
| Six Day Tour | US $1776 | UK £888 |
Price reductions: Members of the
Royal Oak, English National Trust or a group
of five to seven people qualify for a 5% reduction in tour
price, and groups of eight to twelve for a 10% reduction.
Special Garden Tours
Prices quoted on request of tour.Detailed Itineraries
Draft itineraries are available on request but otherwise final versions are sent aftre the receipt of a completed booking form and 10% deposit and will arrive two months before the tour starts. A receipt for the payment of deposit and final amount — due 2 months before the tour starts — will be sent immediately I receive them. The itineraries will include details of arrangements for collecting and leaving participants at the start and end of the tour. F L O R A Garden Tours can arrange accommodation for you for the night before and after the tour if you wish.
Other information sent with the itineraries concerns the sort of weather to expect as well as the clothing and equipment recommended for the tour.
For printed information click here.