This 8 nighter starts in the Royal Borough of Windsor before spending a couple of nights in the university city of Cambridge. With visits to some pretty spectacular stately homes and a couple of gardens that rarely feature in any tour operators brochures the return to London take in Stratford upon Avon, the Cotswolds and either Blenheim Palace or Waddesdon Manor. Other highlights include:
- A privately guided tour of the Oxford Botanic Garden which dates from 1621
- The romantic privately owned garden at Cerney House
- The Shakespeare Houses but seen from the gardener’s point of view
- The fully restored 19th century Italianate garden at the Trentham Estate
- The high Victorian garden at Biddulph Grange
- A ‘Plot to Plate’ visit to the National Herb Society at Sulgrave Manor, George Washington’s ancestral home
