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ENGLISH GARDEN TOURS (EGT3)

OPEN GARDENS: GARDEN DESIGNERS’ PERSONAL CREATIONS IN THE MONTH OF THE ROSE

Sunday 6 June to Sunday 13 June 2010

Levens Hall

This tour includes a rich variety of traditional English country gardens. Garden designers continue to find inspiration in this tradition from the suburbs of Manchester to the Yorkshire and Lancashire moors and the rich countryside of Shropshire.All the gardens have roses created by David Austin. To visit his own rose gardens and nursery will be a particular highlight of his week.

Day	Period	Activity
Sunday 6/6	ARRIVALS
	Evening	Welcome reception and introduction to host families.
Monday 7/6	MANCHESTER CITY CENTRE & OPEN GARDENS
	Morning	Discover Manchester, orientation tour of the city centre with its impressive Victorian and modern buildings and landscaping.
	Afternoon	Tour of private Didsbury gardens that are open to the public under the ‘National Garden Scheme Yellow Book’ - gardens open for charity.
	Evening	Drinks Moor Cottage garden (weather permitting)
Tuesday 8/6	GRESGARTH AND THE LAKE DISTRICT
	Morning	Gresgarth Hall, a garden created by the renowned garden designer Arabella Lennox-Boyd. It includes terraces, a lake, a bog garden, a wild garden and herbaceous borders..
	Afternoon	Seven lake tour of the Lake District including Hawkeshead and Grasmere.
	Evening	Dinner with host family.
Wedenday 9/6	ARLEY HALL
	Morning	English conversation class.
	Afternoon	Visit to Arley Hall via the pretty Cheshire village of Great Budworth. Arley is famous for both its mixed herbaceous borders and its delightful old rose cottage garden.
Thursday 10/6	WATERCOLOUR CLASS
	Morning	English conversation class and garden briefing
	Afternoon	Watercolour class at Moor Cottage
	Evening	Royal Exchange Theatre: Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw visit
Friday 11/6	DAVID AUSTIN ROSE GARDENS, KATHERINE SWIFT’S DOWER HOUSE GARDEN AND WOLLERTON OLD HALL, COTTAGE GARDEN
	Morning	Albrighton the nursery and rose gardens of David Austin, breeder of English roses and specialist grower of old, shrub, climbing and modern roses.
	Afternoon	Katherine Swift’s Dower House Garden en route to Wollerton Old Hall a 20th century garden of choice borrowings recalling the ‘Arts & Crafts’ (Liberty) movement, Hidcote, Sissinghurst and Lutyens's gardens.
Saturday 12/6	HAREWOOD HOUSE & YORK GATE
	Morning	Yorkshire, Harewood House set in a ‘Capability’ Brown landscape with its signature lake. In Victorian times the modest villa became an Italianate palazzo housing countless art treasures. Together with its stupendous terraced garden it forms a historic set piece alive and well in the 21st century.
	Afternoon	York Gate. This garden demonstrates the refinement of English gardening in the mid 20th century. It is a sophisticated family cottage garden achieved through expert planting and inspired design.
	Evening	Farewell party at Moor Cottage.
Sunday 13/6	Departures

Manchester Language School reserves the right to change the programme according to the availability of the gardens and venues listed.