Garden Festival Planner: Floriade Holand 2022
The rebirth of New York’s High Line
Back in 2013 workers removed the last remaining bits of Sydney’s monorail. After 25 years the unpopular transport project has been relegated to memory. How different the decommissioning of New York’s old freight rail, the High Line, and the transformation…
Postcard from the garden world
This week’s postcard includes views, reports and travel tips from the world of Ross Garden Tours. A US First For the first time ever Graham and I are co-hosting a tour! We’ve handpicked some of our favourite gardens on the…
Powis Castle
Powis Castle is a medieval fortress and grand country manor of striking red limestone that perches on top of a hill. Its crenelated battlements reach into the clouds and its mullioned windows overlook Italianate terraces planted up with fine herbaceous…
Garden Marlborough
Words and pictures: Michael McCoy Rapaura Springs Garden Marlborough, New Zealand 7 – 10 November 2019 This spring garden festival focused around Blenheim, New Zealand, is like no other festival I’ve ever experienced. The concentration of truly world-class…
Nest of the Feather Serpent
Linda finds a garden in Mexico that sparkles with surprise and joy. Words: Linda Ross, pictures: Larisa Avila & Linda Ross The feather serpent is an ancient Aztec and Toltec mythical being that you see represented in many ancient…
Picardy
Picardy Marian Somes sums up her garden philosophy as ‘Let it rip!’ And it does. In spring, when I took a group of Ross Garden Tours travellers to visit Marian’s garden Picardy, it was a riot of flowers. Words and…
Garden Festival Planner: Madeira Flower Festival
Madeira is an archipelago of four islands off the coast of Portugal with a balmy climate and a garden-mad population. Words: Robin Powell Madeira Flower Festival Funchal May 2-19, 2019 The two things most of us know…
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…