Category Archives: England
Chelsea Flower Show with Colin Barlow
Meet Colin Barlow, Ross Tours Guide Colin Barlow is a well known garden designer and media personality from Perth and one of Ross Tours’ expert tour leaders. British born, Colin’s first Chelsea experience was at 12 years when he visited…
Virtual Chelsea Starts Next Week
Chelsea Flower Show is the world’s greatest flower show and this year it’s going digital. For six days, world-leading designers, plant experts and gardening personalities will inspire us virtually with tours of their own gardens, sharing design tips, planting advice, showing…
Meet Emily Dell – Ross Tours Local Tour Guide
Meet Emily Dell, one of our Ross Tours local tour guides. A qualified London Blue Badge Guide, Emily has been sharing her passion for British culture with visitors for over 12 years. With a love of gardens and brilliant sense…
A Celebration of Colour
As we head into May, Ross Garden Tours is continuing our mission to keep you connected virtually to what’s happening in gardens around the world. Today we’re celebrating the colours of spring and autumn. Japan’s Ashikaga Flower Park and America’s…
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.…
Chelsea magic
Chelsea is a magical garden world as full of dreams and emotion as it of of sheer hard work and skill. We took three groups on Opening Day this year and asked the tour leaders to tell us what moved…
Garden festival planner: Chelsea Flower show
Chelsea is the prize bloom of the world’s garden shows, and the reputation is well-deserved. Here Robin Powell shares her observations on what has been another breath-taking Chelsea Flower Show. Once a year the grounds of the Royal Hospital Chelsea,…
Roses at Wisley
Words and images: Robin Powell There’s a spicy smell of rose in the air, and the sound of happy bees. Full-petalled pink blooms decorate a rose bush that reaches over over my shoulder. At its feet brilliant daylilies open their…