£20pp discount for Blue Light Members
In June 2026, enjoy visits to six beautiful English gardens in
Kent and Sussex, plus a special talk hosted by the inspirational
garden designer Sarah Raven at her garden at Perch Hill.
Highlights of the trip include visits to Great Comp Garden and
Scotney Castle. You'll spend time among the scented roses and
lavender of Pashley Manor and admire the classic styling of Great
Dixter. You'll also experience a visit to Sissinghurst, where
you'll explore these exquisite gardens.
On a visit to Sarah Raven's garden at Perch Hill in East Sussex,
you'll listen to an exclusive talk about the 30+ year
transformation from a dairy farm into 12 acres dedicated to flowers
and colourful gardens. You'll join the gardeners on a private tour
before feasting upon a two-course lunch using fresh produce from
the garden.
During the tour, you'll be based at the elegant four-star The Spa Hotel in Royal Tunbridge Wells. Enjoy welcome drinks on your first evening, plus two group dinners - as well as evenings spent at your leisure, perhaps making the most of the spa facilities.
£20 per person Blue Light Members discount
Make your own way to The Spa Hotel, Royal Tunbridge Wells for your three-night stay. Meet your coach and transfer to Great Comp Garden for a guided tour. This seven-acre garden with many beautiful and rare shrubs, perennials and other hardy plants is a plantsman's haven. There are areas of formal and informal plantings linked with meandering grass paths and ruins homing in on an Italian Garden. After your visit, return to the hotel and check in. This evening, enjoy a welcome drink and introductory talk from the Tour Manager, followed by a group dinner at the hotel
After breakfast this morning, meet your coach and tour manager and transfer to Perch Hill. Once a rather ramshackle ex-dairy farm with a lot of concrete, corrugated iron and not much else, the land has been converted to an organic 12 acres of new seed and plant varieties. The constant supply of favourite flowers comes from the large cutting garden where the central four beds are filled with hardy and half-hardy annuals and biennials. There are also two purely ornamental gardens at Perch Hill. Sarah Raven will give us a talk on her experiences at Perch Hill. We will then have a guided tour of the garden with the gardeners, who will point out plants and features of interest and answer any questions you may have. We will then sit down to a two-course lunch featuring fresh produce from the garden. After your visit, return to the hotel and spend the evening and dinner at your leisure.
After breakfast this morning, meet your coach and tour manager and transfer to Sissinghurst Castle. This famous garden was created by Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson from 1930 onwards and became the most admired English Garden of its time. Few great gardens live up to their reputations so effortlessly as this. Sissinghurst is a large connoisseurs' garden consisting of a series of small romantic areas enclosed by the surviving parts of an Elizabethan mansion. This afternoon, transfer to Great Dixter House and Gardens. First enjoy some lunch (not included), before your guided tour of the gardens. The distinguished garden writer Christopher Lloyd was the genius behind Great Dixter, with its timbered 15th century house. Restored by Edwin Lutyens who also planned the garden, Mr Lloyd has firmly put his lively stamp on it. After your visit, return to the hotel and have dinner at the hotel this evening.
After breakfast this morning, check out of the hotel. Meet your coach and tour manager and transfer to Pashley Manor for a guided tour. An award-winning, quintessential English Garden on the Kent/Sussex border, Pashley Manor offers a sumptuous blend of romantic landscaping, imaginative plantings and fine old trees, fountains, springs and large ponds. The roses and lavender should be at their fragrant peak at this time of year. Enjoy some lunch (not included) before you reboard the coach and transfer to Scotney Castle for a guided tour of the gardens. The central feature of the gardens is the ruin of a medieval, moated manor house, Scotney Old Castle, which is on an island on a small lake. The lake is surrounded by sloping, wooded gardens with fine collections of rhododendrons, azaleas and kalmia. At the top of the garden stands a house which was built to replace the Old Castle between 1835 and 1843. After your visit, the coach will return to the hotel, where your tour comes to an end.
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