GARDENESQUE – 'Partaking of the character of a garden... or what belongs to a garden'. 
– Oxford English Dictionary

Welcome to Gardenesque Tours, a place for those who love gardens, glamour, style, design, and distinctive destinations. 

A hybrid of a lively social club and a lovely, old-fashioned horticultural society reinvented for the modern age, it's both a compendium of insights and inspiration and a launching pad for our memorable garden and design tours. The result of our first successful garden tour in 2013, these tours feature exceptional itineraries of our favourite glamour-filled destinations, led by a lovely team of experienced leaders and escorts. 

The 2015 calendar includes New York, the Hamptons and Charleston in April (timed to take in the spring bulbs and blossoms), New England in late April/May (including Nantucket and Rhode Island) and of course a repeat of our London tour featuring the Chelsea Flower Show, and the crowd favourites of Sissinghurst and Highgrove in late May. Further tours are being considered for Paris and Provence.

These tours all feature glorious gardens, beautiful boutique hotels, fabulous fashion boutiques and fabric stores, great architecture and design (including secret museums), memorable exhibitions on sartorial style, atmospheric bistros and exceptional restaurants, private hideways of local designers, and many other wonderful, tucked-away places.

 We really hope you'll be part of the adventure. We'd love to have your company.

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BOOKING FORMS
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2015 TOURS INCLUDE:
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GLAMOUR AND GRANDEUR TOUR
SUN APR 26 – WED MAY 6

HIGHLIGHTS OF THIS NEW YORK, HAMPTONS AND CHARLESTON TOUR INCLUDE:
  •  5 days / 6 nights in glamorous New York City, seeing the best of Manhattan and visiting many places not known to tourists;
  • Insightful walking tours of New York’s most beautiful and memorable gardens, parks, fashion and design museums and iconic neighbourhoods by highly knowledgable tour guides who have frequented NY for years, including a guest talk by a well-known New York author and former Ralph Lauren executive;
  • A long leisurely weekend in the Hamptons, with beach walks and bike rides;
  • Visits to several unforgettable gardens and homes;
  • Several days exploring the gracious architecture and spring gardens of Charleston, one of America’s most beautiful cities and recently voted No 1 City in the USA and the World by readers of Travel & Leisure and Conde Nast Traveler magazines.
GREAT ESTATES, GARDENS, 
ANTIQUES & ISLAND HIDEAWAYS TOUR
TUES MAY 12 – FRI MAY 22, 2015

HIGHLIGHTS OF THIS NEW ENGLAND TOUR INCLUDE: 
  • A visit to author and designer Bunny Williams’ garden, immortalised in her bestselling book An Affair with a House, plus visits to four more private gardens;
  • A visit to the famous Trade Secrets Garden Fair (loved by Martha Stewart, Oscar de la Renta and Carolyne Roehm), as well as a visit to the famous Brimfield Antiques Fair, the largest outdoor antiques fair in the world, and a mecca for both collectors and the window merchandisers of Ralph Lauren, Kate Spade and others;
  • Guided tours of several of Newport’s most spectacular Gilded Age mansions;
  • Tours of the delightful homes of legendary authors Edith Wharton (The Age of Innocence) and Louisa May Alcott (Little Women);
  • Time to unwind on sublime Nantucket island and neighbouring Martha’s Vineyard, home to some of America's most beautiful beach houses (and boutiques);
  • Time in beautiful Boston, seeing the city's most beautiful corners, including the Isabel Stewart Gardner Museum, renowned for its horticulture and art;
  • A tour of Connecticut's prettiest villages, including those renowned for garden and design stores.


GORGEOUS GARDENALIA TOUR
Our Gardens of London, Southern England, and the Chelsea Flower Show itinerary will be posted very soon. Please bear with us: we're currently finalising it all to ensure you have the best possible experience.