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 13 Holidays available from £2,450pp
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.
Following our highly successful English Rose tours, we now venture across the channel to investigate the story of the French Rose and to enjoy some truly wonderful gardens and rose collections from Paris to the Loire.
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.
Join us for a celebration of the rose, doyenne of the English Garden, as we tour the beautiful county of Shropshire, home of our expert rosarian Michael Marriott.
Visit Provence with us on this European Boxwood tour, and discover fields of lavender amongst medieval hill towns, whilst seeking out the finest gardens in the region.
Join COUNTRY LIFE contributors Charles Quest-Ritson and Kirsty Fergusson on this unforgettable tour of Sicily’s sumptuous gardens and splendid villas.
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.
In the golden afternoon of the year, join our host, *The Times*garden writer Stephen Anderton, on an exclusive exploration of some of the finest gardens of the Cotswolds.
Join us on this unique tour of the Netherlands to explore the works of leading Dutch horticulturists Piet Oudolf, Jaqueline van der Kloet and Robert Broekema 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.
Join the amazing Paul Zimmerman on this enchanted journey through some of the UK's finest gardens, which is devoted to the rose in all of its purest forms.
Join COUNTRY LIFE contributors Kathryn Bradley-Hole and Kirsty Fergusson on this spellbinding tour of the French Riviera’s finest 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.