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.
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We have found 9 Holidays available from £1,750pp
Join The Times garden writer Stephen Anderton and expert Marion Mako in some of the finest, exclusive gardens of the Cotswolds.
Join COUNTRY LIFE contributors Kathryn Bradley-Hole and Kirsty Fergusson on this spellbinding tour of the French Riviera’s finest gardens.
Enter Brittany and discover what the regions rewarding environment provides. With coastlines and wooded valleys providing incredible microclimates and dramatic spaces.
Visit the gardens of Sussex that are home to, or were created by, artists and examine how these gardens influenced their artwork and vice versa.
On this exclusive *Gardens Illustrated* tour of Dorset, visit exquisite private gardens and feast at Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall’s River Cottage HQ.
Surrounded by a tranquil backdrop of ancient hills, steep limestone valleys and stark moorland plateaus, journey with us as we explore the romantic gardens of the Peak District and Derbyshire Dales.
Let our expert host, Adam Wilkinson and Hortus contributor, Kirsty Fergusson, whisk you on a weekend away to the leafy village of Varengeville-sur-Mer to visit the region’s classical and contemporary gardens.
Join us on this unique tour of the Netherlands to explore the works of leading Dutch horticulturists alongside the gardens that inspired them.
Discover the splendour of the English Lake District, one-time home to William Wordsworth, the Lakeland Poets and Beatrix Potter, on this tour of Arts & Crafts houses and gardens.
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.
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.
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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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.
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.
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.