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Study Holidays English Garden Tours Programmes EGT3

Levens Hall

THE MONTH OF THE ROSE (EGT3)

Saturday 9 June to Saturday 16 June 2012

The June programme is designed for garden lovers who wish to combine their professional or hobby interest in gardening with practising and extending their English language skills. Each day starts in the classroom with vocabulary handouts and briefing notes.   Participants leave well prepared to make the most of the day ahead.

This programme includes two longer tours to the English Lake District and Peak District National Parks.  Many of the gardens have roses hybridised by David Austin. The visit to his own rose garden and nursery is a particular highlight of this week.

Day Period Activity
Saturday 9/6 ARRIVALS
Sunday 10/6 MANCHESTER CITY CENTRE & THE 'YELLOW BOOK' GARDENS OF DIDSBURY
Morning

English conversation class and garden briefing Introduction to Manchester and the National Garden Scheme
Manchester City centre tour.

Afternoon Return to Didsbury and visit five of the ‘National Garden Scheme ‘Yellow Book’ gardens
Evening Dinner with host families.
Monday 11/6 CHATSWORTH AND THE PEAK DISTRICT
Morning

English conversation class and garden briefing Town and Country – an Introduction to Chatsworth and the Devonshire Family.
Depart for Chatsworth, ‘The Palace of the Peak’ via the village of Tideswell in the Peak District National Park. 

Afternoon

Chatsworth is a 17th century palace with a rich collection of art and antique furniture.  The house, set in 400 hectares of ‘Capability’ Brown landscaped park, is home to the Duke and Duchess of Devonshire. The gardens at Chatsworth are ‘Pleasure Grounds’ on a vast scale with fountains and avenues, arboreta, a maze, baroque cascade and sculpture.

Evening Dinner with host families.
Tuesday 12/6 ARLEY HALL
Morning English conversation class and garden briefing In an English country garden.  Followed, after a coffee, with the introduction to Arley Hall garden.
Afternoon Visit to Arley Hall and the pretty Cheshire village of Great Budworth.   Arley is famous for both its double herbaceous borders and its delightful old rose cottage garden. 
Evening Dinner with host families.
Wednesday 13/6 CLASSES OF CHOICE
Morning English conversation class and garden briefing An introduction to Romanticism and the landscape of the English Lake Poets.
Afternoon Options: Watercolour class at Fletcher Moss Botanical Garden or, Cookery class The Great British Tea Ceremony.
Evening Royal Exchange theatre visit Oscar Wilde’s Lady Windermere’s Fan       
Thursday 14/6 LEVENS HALL AND THE LAKE DISTRICT
Morning

Depart for the English Lake District, Levens Hall, a tower house dating from 1250 with an exceptional 300 year old garden. Levens is probably the most famous topiary garden in the world - a synthesis of formality, illusion and horticultural magic
Afternoon Seven lake tour of the Lake District including Hill Top, home of Beatrix Potter and Grasmere home of the English Romantic poet, William Wordsworth
Evening

Dinner with host families.
Friday 15/6 DAVID AUSTIN ROSE GARDENS AND WOLLERTON OLD HALL,  COTTAGE GARDEN
Morning

English conversation class and garden briefing. A Gardener’s A to Z             
Depart for the nursery and rose gardens of David Austin

Afternoon Wollerton Old Hall.  A garden of twentieth century choice influences recalling the Arts and Crafts Movement.
Evening Farewell Party at Moor Cottage with host families.
Saturday 16/6 FAREWELLS

Manchester Language School reserves the right to change the programme according to the availability of the gardens, personnel and venues listed and substitute appropriate alternatives.
 
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