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Boxwood Garden Holidays

6 tours from £2,500pp

Garden tours that offer a chance to visit some of the most exclusive and beautiful gardens, featuring meetings with garden owners and head gardeners wherever possible. With small, friendly groups (max. 25) and carefully selected, fine hotels, many chosen for the quality of their cuisine, together with travel in luxury coaches, we offer a complete service with great attention to your personal comfort and well-being to ensure a memorable, relaxed garden holiday.

We hope you find our selection of Garden Tours for this our 30th Year inspiring and exciting: we look forward to welcoming you on one of these Boxwood Exclusive Garden Tours.

Helen Yemm & more

From a rectory garden in the shadow of church towers to densely-planted borders below the walls of country homes, this tour has it all.

  • Transport from Banbury station
  • 3 nights bed and breakfast accommodation
  • 3 evening meals with wine and 4 lunches
  • Private coach transfers
  • Guided visits to all sites listed in the programme
  • Detailed programme and garden notes
  • Services of the Tour Manager and Tour Host

Availability:

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Michael Marriott & more

Michael Marriott hosts and Kirsty Fergusson leads on this special tour timed to coincide with the magical weeks of early Italian summer.

  • Return flights from London Heathrow to Rome
  • 2 nights' bed and breakfast in the 4-star Donna Camilla Hotel, Rome
  • 2 nights' bed and breakfast at the five-star Brufani Palace Hotel, Perugia
  • 3 evening meals and 4 lunches with wine
  • Private coach transfers and excursions
  • Guided visits to sites listed in the programme
  • Services of the Tour Host and Tour Manager
  • Detailed programme and garden notes

Availability:

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Kathryn Bradley-Hole & more

Country Life contributors Kathryn Bradley-Hole Garden and Kirsty Fergusson host and lead this unique tour into the hidden heart of Tangier.

  • Return economy class flights with British Airways from London Heathrow
  • Return ferry crossing from Spain to Tangier
  • 4 nights' accommodation at the El Minzah Hotel
  • 2 dinners at the hotel and 2 as guests in private homes with local wines included
  • 2 lunches
  • Detailed programme and garden notes
  • Services of the Tour Manager and Hosts
  • Guided visits to sites listed in the programme

Availability:

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Stephen Anderton & more

Join our wonderful hosts, including special guest Jimi Blake, on this fascinating Irish garden tour visiting Hunting Brook and Patthana.

  • Return flights from London Heathrow to Dublin Airport
  • 2 nights half-board at The Marfield Hotel
  • 1 night half-board at The Dylan Hotel
  • 3 evening meals and 4 lunches with wine
  • Services of our Tour Manager and Tour Host
  • Detailed programme and garden notes

Availability:

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Kirsty Fergusson & more

Gardens Illustrated contributors Troy Scott Smith and Kirsty Fergusson host and lead this special tour to the stunning gardens of Brittany.

  • Return travel from Portsmouth to Caen by ferry
  • 4 nights accommodation
  • 3 dinners and 4 lunches with wine
  • Travel throughout France by private coach
  • Services of the Tour Host and Tour Manager
  • Guided visits to all sites as listed in the programme
  • Detailed programme and garden notes
  • All entrance fees, taxes and gratuities included

Availability:

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Kirsty Fergusson

This special Moroccan garden tour offers a unique selection of 21st-century, mostly private, gardens, designed by some of the best.

  • Return flights from London Heathrow to Marrakech
  • 5 nights accommodation at the 5-star La Maison Arabe
  • 3 dinners and 4 lunches with wine
  • Guided visits as listed in the programme
  • Services of our Tour Manager and Tour Host
  • Detailed programme and garden notes

Availability:

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Partnership Holidays

Gardens Illustrated Garden Tours

A Boxwood tour partner since 2011, the list of Gardens Illustrated holidays to date is extensive and wide-ranging, from the abundant kitchen gardens of the South West to the intoxicating courtyard gardens of Marrakech, via the stately romance of the Italian Lakes. The Gardens Illustrated approach combines stunning photography with some of the world’s best garden writing and a Gardens Illustrated holiday is a unique opportunity bring its lushly printed pages to life, in the company of world-class experts and fellow enthusiasts.

HORTUS Garden Tours

In partnership with Boxwood since 2005, HORTUS is a privately published quarterly journal for intelligent and lively-minded gardeners. Founded by editor David Wheeler in 1987, HORTUS remains unique in its presentation and content; a thoughtful, analogue response to our increasingly digitised lives. Since its conception, HORTUS has published almost every garden writer of note. HORTUS garden holidays are curated with the same devotion, drawing on a broad network of contributors to match distinguished field specialists with outstanding horticultural locations.

Country Life Garden Tours

Boxwood’s partnership with Country Life has been going from strength to strength since 2012, amassing a diverse portfolio of tours in this time. The magazine’s reputation as a publication that comments in depth on subjects such as gardens and gardening, the countryside, architecture and the arts is reflected in this portfolio, enriching journeys of horticultural discovery throughout Europe and beyond with injections of culture, architecture and the arts, in the illuminating company of industry-leading professionals.

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Country Life Garden Tours

Country Life Garden Tours Highlights

Boxwood’s partnership with Country Life has been going from strength to strength since 2012, amassing a diverse portfolio of tours in this time. The magazine’s reputation as a publication that comments in depth on subjects such as gardens and gardening, the countryside, architecture and the arts is reflected in this portfolio, enriching journeys of horticultural discovery throughout Europe and beyond with injections of culture, architecture and the arts, in the illuminating company of industry-leading professionals.

Gardens Illustrated Garden Tours

Gardens Illustrated Garden Tours Highlights

A Boxwood tour partner since 2011, the list of Gardens Illustrated holidays to date is extensive and wide-ranging, from the abundant kitchen gardens of the South West to the intoxicating courtyard gardens of Marrakech, via the stately romance of the Italian Lakes. The Gardens Illustrated approach combines stunning photography with some of the world’s best garden writing and a Gardens Illustrated holiday is a unique opportunity bring its lushly printed pages to life, in the company of world-class experts and fellow enthusiasts.

HORTUS Garden Tours

HORTUS Garden Tours Highlights

In partnership with Boxwood since 2005, HORTUS is a privately published quarterly journal for intelligent and lively-minded gardeners. Founded by editor David Wheeler in 1987, HORTUS remains unique in its presentation and content; a thoughtful, analogue response to our increasingly digitised lives. Since its conception, HORTUS has published almost every garden writer of note. HORTUS garden holidays are curated with the same devotion, drawing on a broad network of contributors to match distinguished field specialists with outstanding horticultural locations.