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In May, I led a group of 28 folks on an English gardens tour. We had so much fun! Recently, I’ve been writing posts about each individual day of the trip. But for today’s edition of The Spokesman-Review, I wrote a feature story about the trip for their Travel section. Here is a link to it: Glorious gardens. Or you […]
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(This is the 9th in a series of blog posts about the 2018 English Gardens Tour I led.) On May 22nd, we visited two gardens: Sissinghurst Castle Garden and Nymans Gardens. Everyone in my group was particularly excited about visiting Sissinghurst because it is definitely a bucket-list garden. Getting to Sissinghurst required a great deal of planning, though! Despite making […]
Read more(This is the 8th in a series of blog posts about the 2018 English Gardens Tour I led.) On Monday, May 21st, we had a long, busy day but oh, what fun we had! We began with a visit to the iconic Great Dixter (pictured at left). The we wandered through the village of Rye, mainly for the purpose of […]
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I’m really excited about today’s garden column because it is a profile of Great Dixter. If you’ve never heard of this amazing English garden, you will definitely want to put it on your bucket list! It was one of our stops on the English Gardens Tour that I led from May 16-27, 2018. Here is a link to the column […]
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(This is the 7th in a series of blog posts about the 2018 English Gardens Tour I led.) In my previous post, I wrote about our visit to Wisley Gardens, which was absolutely fantastic. That was on Sunday, May 20th. In the afternoon, we also visited Chartwell House. I wanted to share a bit of information about this with you […]
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(This is the 6th in a series of blog posts about the 2018 English Gardens Tour I led.) The garden we visited on the fourth full day of our trip was magnificent! I had heard of Wisley Gardens before — probably in a magazine or on a garden show — but this was my first time there. No one in […]
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(This is the fifth in a series of blog posts about the 2018 English Gardens Tour I led.) On Saturday, May 19, our tour group got to explore a lovely Cotswolds village. Then we explored one of my favorite gardens, Hidcote. The Cotswolds is a delightful region in south central England that is extremely desirable to live in. I would […]
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(This is the 4th in my series about the 2018 English Gardens Tour I led.) The pace of the second full day of our trip was much more relaxed. We arrived at Waddesdon Manor at 10 a.m. and stayed there for the whole day. That was just what we needed after our very long first full day. Waddesdon Manor history […]
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I hereby declare garden tour season open! It officially begins with the Spokane in Bloom garden tour, hosted by the Inland Empire Gardeners. The tour takes place this Saturday, June 16, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Here is a link to my column, which is a preview of the tour. Spokane in Bloom tour features north side gardens. (you […]
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(This is the third in a series about the 2018 English Gardens Tour I led.) At noon on May 16th, we met up with my tour group at Spokane International Airport. All of us were full of excited anticipation about the coming days. After so many months of preparation, was it possible the trip was finally about to begin? I’m […]
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