Category Archives: Japan
Virtual tours – our newest garden adventure!
Hello everyone! We hope you are staying well and keeping your spirits up during these uncertain times. We are so missing travelling with you at such a beautiful time of year when spring is unfurling in the Northern hemisphere and…
Five of the best: wisteria gardens
Here’s our pick of the best places in the world to be thrilled by the fragrance, form and sheer delight of wisteria. Words: Linda Ross Ashikaga Flower Park This is our favourite wisteria collection, just 50 minutes out of Tokyo.…
Japan’s Valley of Azalea
On Better Homes and Gardens TV Show this Friday night, Graham Ross dazzles us with an unusual Japanese garden in a valley made up of a staggering 20,000 clipped azaleas. Join him, in a garden only forty minutes from Tokyo…
Flower fields of Japan
Once the cherry blossoms fall, Japan bursts into colour with azaleas, peonies and wisteria creating a crescendo of colour unknown to most international travellers – and not to be missed! This floral exuberance coincides with Japan’s Golden Week – a…
Nikko Japan
This week we are thrilled that our recent travels through Nikko, Japan will be broadcast on Better Homes and Gardens TV Show starting this Friday 13th July. There is a saying in Japan, from old-timers mostly, “Never say kekko (I’ve…
Garden Festival Planner: Matsue Japan
Flying into Matsue, on the shores of Lake Shinjii, the ground glows green with rice and buckwheat. The area is famous for its soba noodles, ancient samurai houses, moated castle – and a succession of cherry blossom, peonies, azaleas and…
What a great year
What a great year we had in 2017, traveling the gardens of the world. Here are some of our most memorable tours. Lily paddling Canada in summer is stupendous, and when we found ourselves in one of the most exciting…
Chasing cherries in Japan
Chasing cherries in Japan with a Ross Garden Tours group was even better than Robin Powell ever thought it would be. And we’re doing it all again next year! If you’d like to join Robin in Japan, call Ros or…