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Trips for 2003
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Exbury and
Borde Hill gardens Saturday 3 May £25 including entrance.
Exbury was created in the 1920s by Lionel de Rothschild. The 200 acres
are famous for their rhododendrons, camellias and azaleas which should be in
full bloom in early May.
Borde Hill gardens is listed Grade II and of
great botanical importance with fishing lakes, Italian garden, Victorian
greenhouses and a Blooms garden centre.
www.exbury.co.uk |
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Gardens of
Normandy, France 15-19 May 2003 including Monet’s garden at Giverny.
The trip will cost £225 per person plus any single supplement required of
£56 and details of compulsory travel insurance (Travel company offers this
at £16 per person, payable with deposit). Return executive coaching,
Dover/Calais ferry, staying at a good hotel, Mercure near Rouen. This
includes evening meal on first night, ferry and garden entrances.
Monet’s Giverny has been restored and replanted with the artist’s
original designs, the lily pond and Japanese bridge. He was leader of the
Impressionist movement. There will be a visit to Trouville Sunday market.
Other gardens include Parc du Bois des Moutiers (created in 1898 by Lutyens,
Jekyll and Mallet) which stretches down to the sea and Parc et Jardin du
Chateau de Miromesnil which has a splendid beech plantation, a 200 year old
cedar, and a traditional floral kitchen garden as well as a 17th
century chateau where Guy de Maupassant was born. Jardin des Plantes de
Rouen has a 19th century orangery, rose garden, hothouses, 1842
pavilion and collection of medical plants. |
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Gardens of
the North West 25-28 July 2003 to RHS Tatton Park Flower Show. The cost
is £199 per person plus any single supplement of £36 per person and optional
travel insurance of £12 per person. We will stay at the Queen’s Hotel,
Chester (en suite rooms with colour TV and tea/coffee making facilities,
breakfast and evening meal included). This EXCLUDES entrances. Members of
EHA, NT, RHS or senior citizens will have reduced or free entry.
We stop for lunch at the Ryton Organic Garden’s award winning restaurant.
There will be visits to Bodnant Gardens (NT) (a naturalistic garden sited
above the river Conwy laid out in a series of terraces, incorporating water
and fine cedars) and Ness Botanic Gardens (laid out in 1898 by a Liverpool
cotton broker who introduced plants from around the world it has a
conservatory, show glass house with tropical and arid displays, experimental
grounds, restaurant, visitor centre and plant sales) or staying in Chester
as an option on Saturday while on Sunday we visit the RHS Tatton Park flower
show (it’s last day) when you can visit the NT park and neo-classical
mansion as well. We return via Dorothy Clive Garden in Market Drayton. |
For more information contact Pamela on:
outings@ewellhortassn.co.uk
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