CHS TOUR to THE COTSWOLDS

16-19 SEPT 2024

Accommodation at the Stratford Manor Hilton Hotel.
A 4 star hotel in a rural setting near Stratford Upon Avon
Cost includes all gratuities, 3 nights dinner bed and breakfast at hotel, coach, admissions to gardens & properties and also dinner on the way home.
Not included: lunches, teas or drinks unless specified.

We shall be visiting: Hampton Court Castle, Kiftsgate, Hidcote Manor Garden, Broughton Grange, Bourton House Garden, Charlecote Park and Coughton Court.
Details of itinerary are here to Download or Print: 24_Cotswolds_Itinerary

Single: £742 Double or Twin per person: £540
NB Non National Trust Members: please add £45 per person.
DOWNLOAD A PRINTABLE BOOKING FORM HERE: COTSWOLDS_BOOKING_FORM

Final costs, dependant on booking numbers, may vary slightly.
Please book as soon as possible to allow us to secure our reservations.

This is a private tour arranged by CHS members for CHS members and their friends and family only.

COTSWOLD GARDENS 2024

Sezincote House. Completed in 1805 by Samuel Pepys Cockerell, when the East India Company & British Imperial power controlled most of India, it is the best private Indian interpretation.

We stay at the Stratford Manor Hilton Hotel.
A 4 star hotel in a rural setting 3 miles from Stratford Upon Avon.

We shall visit:
Hampton Court Castle, Kiftsgate, Hidcote Manor Garden, Broughton Grange, Bourton House Garden, Charlecote Park and Coughton Court

We shall also look around Broadway Village and plan to arrange transport to the theatre for Shakespeare’s Pericles. Book individually.

Rousham Park and Garden. Redesigned in 1740 by William Kent, the house and grounds are his finest work. Extensive grounds have abundant friut trees and famous borders.

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Kerdalo

Recently acquired by Christian Louboutin and created by Russian emigre Prince Wolonsky in the sixties, we were guided by the Head Gardener Tangi Rabin.

Jardin Georges Delaselle

Planted over a century ago by a retired colonial with a fondness for palms and sub-tropical plants, the garden is on an island and has undergone extensive preservation more recently.

La chateau de la Ballue

A 17th century chateau with stunning topiary and a very focussed chaterlain. Her husband cooked us lunch which we enjoyed under a pergola overlooking yews trimmed pin-sharp into fantastic shapes.

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Yews Farm

Photo by Kay Edwards

An attractive, shady seating area is upstaged by the unusual crowns and spirals of clipped box.

The Newt

Photo by Kay Edwards

A water feature at the Newt featuring a newt.

Llanover

Photo by Kay Edwards

The recently designed corner of the round garden.

MEMBERS’ PLANTS FROM PAST TOURS

Kay Edwards
I visited Le Jardin Agapanthe in Grigneuseville, Normandy in September 2018, with a group of CHS members. These agapanthus ‘Northern Star’, growing happily now in West Wales, remind me of that fascinating garden.

Barb White
Surprise Tiger lilies from scratch.
Thought I’d send you the results of the bulblets that were given to us and many members by Jean Louis Dantec of L’Etang De Launay on our Normandy trip with the CHS in 2018. Did anyone else plant theirs? Tiger lilly, I think.
Philip Ellis reports that none came up from his batch: Barbara is lucky/greener-fingered!

Judith Bray
Guernsey Lilies?
I photographed these on our trip to Guernsey in Autumn 2004, assuming that they were Guernsey Lilies (Nerine sarniensis). However when I checked in my RHS Encyclopedia, they were the wrong colour and more likely to be Nerine bowdenii ‘Pink’. Oh well, what’s in a name – they were very pretty anyway.

Kay Edwards: Coreopsis ‘Full Moon’
Le Jardin Plume Normandy 2018
I was captivated by Coreopsis ‘Full Moon’ in Le Jardin Plume when the CHS visited Normandy in September 2018. It was flowering profusely all along the base of a dark wooden barn and I bought three plants from their nursery. I hope, in time, to create a similar effect here at home.

Kay Edwards
Rose in Memory of John Corfield.
During our CHS visit to Milntown, Isle of Man, John and I came across a fragrant rose we did not recognise, in the sheltered walled garden, still in full bloom in September. A gardener identified it as ‘Wild Edric’ a David Austin rose, named after a Shropshire Lord. I told John I would grow one… and here it is, flowering for the first time on my exposed Welsh hillside.

We are looking for plants from our past tours to fill this empty pot. They may have been a generous handful of distributed propagating material like Barbara’s lily bulblets, purchased from a special garden – or sourced after the bus has gone wild with excitement after spotting something new.