Postcards from our recent travellers
Chaumont-sur-Loire Garden Festival
The Loire Valley is renowned as ‘France’s Garden’, and in summer it hosts an international design festival that imagines the future of gardening. Words: Robin Powell Chaumont-sur-Loire Garden Festival Loire Valley, France April – October 2018 Every year since 1992,…
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…
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…
In my garden: West Green House
Eight years ago Marylyn Abbott sold up her wonderful Southern Highlands garden, Kennerton Green, and moved to England to work full-time on a much bigger project – West Green House. Marylyn Abbott thinks big. She has big plans and the…
Valle de Viñales, Cuba
Fresh from the recent Mexico & Cuba tour Linda Ross and Dan Wheatley reflected on their visit to the Pinar del Rio province in Cuba’s north west. Here Dan walks us through the jewel in this region’s crown, the Valley…
Garden Festival Planner: Hampton Court Flower Show
If the Chelsea Flower Show is the sophisticated sister, her younger sibling is bigger, more daring – and definitely friendlier. Here Linda Ross gives you her tips for turning a trip to Hampton Court Palace into a garden festival …
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…