Iford Manor
The Passionate Gardener
July 3 - 12, 2023 | Maximum Group Size: 15 Participants | Availability: Open
Michael B. Gordon
This summer, join garden blogger, Michael Gordon, for his annual stroll through some of the best gardens in England, but this time during high season to include a visit to the Hampton Court Flower Show.
As your host, Michael hopes to add a North American perspective on English gardens and give you an insight into what ideas you can bring back to your own garden. He will be encouraging you to enter each garden with an inquisitive eye and will be a source of information about horticulture and garden design. Michael will give a series of garden talks during the week.
Tailored for the discriminating gardener, our tour will visit some of England’s most famous gardens as well as unique private gardens. From William Kent’s masterpiece landscape garden, Rousham, to Christopher Lloyd’s innovative garden at Great Dixter, to the contemporary private garden at Pettifers, we will see English garden design from the traditional to the cutting edge.
Michael B. Gordon is an optometrist by profession and a passionate garden-maker and teacher by avocation. He is a self-trained gardener who has learned by visiting gardens in the United States and Europe. He has developed a half-acre private garden in Peterborough, NH over the past 28 years. His garden has been published in Horticulture, NH Home and Yankee Magazine.
Great Dixter
Michael has designed and maintained sophisticated public gardens in the parks of Peterborough for nearly two decades and has trained numerous volunteer gardeners in the art of horticulture. He has hosted tours to English gardens since 2007 and enjoys giving participants ideas on how to implement concepts of English horticulture in their American gardens. Michael started his blog, The Gardener’s Eye, in 2010, and chronicles his gardening travels on Instagram.
Follow Michael on Instagram: @thegardenerseye
If you would like to register for The Passionate Gardener tour, please complete and submit the form located under Reserve Now.
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Pettifers Garden