Helen Yemm

Helen Yemm is probably best-known for her weekly THORNY PROBLEMS page that has been a fixture for nearly twenty years in the Saturday’s Daily Telegraph. In ‘real life’ she is a hands-on, self-taught, keen-as-mustard gardener and lecturer with a garden in East Sussex that she occasionally opens for small groups.

Helen is a sometime television presenter (GARDENING FROM SCRATCH and GARDENING WEEK for BBC-2) and is the author of several gardening books (the latest being GARDENING IN PYJAMAS). She is also a regular feature writer for THE ENGLIH GARDEN magazine. However, hosting garden tours is, she says, the icing on the cake – she gets enormous pleasure from discovering gardens in the company of others who share her passion.

Travel with Helen Yemm

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Telegraph: Gardens of Corfu

3 May 20215 days from £3,480 per person

Garden Holidays

Since antiquity, from Homer’s Odyssey across the centuries to the Durrell family’s stay on the island in the 1930s, writers, poets, artists, gardeners, travellers, statesmen and royalty have all been bewitched by the magical beauty of Corfu. With its lush vegetation, wildflowers and silver olive groves, punctuated by cypresses and stunning views of the Ionian Sea, it is sometimes known as ‘the Garden Isle’.

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The Telegraph: Gardens of the Welsh Borders

22 June 20214 days from £2,499 per person

Garden Holidays

The mountains and moorlands straddling the borders of England and Wales are carved up by wooded river valleys, verdant farmlands, and a surprisingly rich vein of outstanding private gardens.