• Join us on two fabulous tours: to the finest lakeside gardens around Lakes Como and Maggiore; and to some of England’s most beautiful rose gardens
If you love the perfume of roses on an early summer’s day and have always longed to discover more of this vast and varied genus, this four-day tour is for you. The trip includes a visit to the new garden of your tour leader Michael Marriott, who is senior rosarian with David Austin roses. You’ll also visit the outstanding David Austin show garden collection, plus enjoy a behind-the-scenes, private view of David Austin’s own garden. Powis Castle, Coughton Court, Ragley Hall and Wollerton Old Hall complete the tour, all gardens with abundant rose displays – not forgetting the opportunity to meet author and gardener Katherine Swift at her garden at Morville Hall, where she will talk about her forthcoming book, A Rose for Morville. Visit beautiful gardens, discuss the merits of underplanting roses, mulching, pruning, budding, training, and above all celebrate the rose: doyenne of the English garden.