Incredible 2013 English Garden Tour

Are you a passionate plant person that loves to learn from experienced pros and enjoys hands-on, workshop settings?  Do you love looking at magnificent English gardens and wish you could learn simple, how-to design tricks for replicating this in your own yard?  Do you delight in

spending time with inspiring plant people while enjoying great food and accommodations?  Good!

Please join Joe Kunkel (former President of the Perennial Plant Association as well as Director of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society), Barbara Emerson (former President of the Direct Gardening Association and director with Horticulture Magazine) and myself for a unique teaching tour of English gardens from May 26 through June 1, 2013.

This is not your grandma’s proper English garden tour! This one focuses on much more than pretty flowers in manicured settings. It will also be a learning experience, featuring many different styles of gardens, in their historical and cultural context, and in-depth exploration of their plants and design aspects. This combination in-garden classroom/tour includes some of the most famous gardens, and garden designers, in the world. Included are two days of hands-on instruction with Adrian Bloom and others at the world renowned Bressingham Gardens created

by Adrian and the late Alan Bloom in Norfolk.

Tour Highlights:
• 4-star hotel accommodations, 7 nights
• English breakfast daily
• Welcome reception and dinner, and farewell dinner
• Commemorative Blooms Tour t-shirt or sweatshirt
• Abbey Gardens in Bury St. Edmunds
• Beth Chatto Gardens
• Cambridge University Botanic Gardens and punt on the river Cam
• Two days at Bressingham Gardens, with instruction from Adrian Bloom, curator Jaime Blake and others. Includes morning coffee, buffet lunch and Cream Tea on day one, and morning coffee, lunch and an English-style barbeque dinner on day two.
• Royal Horticultural Society gardens at Wisley
• Savill Gardens in Windsor Great Park
• Windsor Castle tour, or open bus tour of Windsor and Eton
• All entrance fees, coach and driver tips included

The price for Land Package is $3,000.  To learn more about the tour and for a 4-page detailed tour outline, please contact Joe Kunkel at aKinback@yahoo.com or 502.649.2936. Space is limited!