Through the Garden Gate

08/03/2024

Discover the inspiring women making waves in the horticultural industry and tending to remarkable gardens

13/02/2024

We'll visit one of these (Plas Brondanw) this coming June.

Lose your heart in one of the world's most romantic gardens around Valentine's Day and beyond with our list of the best

05/02/2024

I'm delighted to share that I'm planning one, and perhaps two, tours to the Cotswolds in 2025. Curious to learn more?

07/01/2024

We'll be at Bodnant in June but I know it will look very different at that time! Always beautiful.

22/09/2023

We're scheduled to meet Claire on the 2024 Lutyens/Jekyll tour.

Meet Claire Greenslade, head gardener at Hestercombe Gardens in Somerset

12/09/2023

I don't think we can have a garden tour in England without at least a visit with Aaron Bertelsen...we look forward to welcoming him as part of the 2024 Lutyens/Jekyll tour!

The start of the season of misty mornings is one of Aaron’s favourite times of the year. Here's the jobs you should get done in the garden in September.

10/09/2023

Another gorgeous day in Shropshire. The Iris are loving all this hot, sunny weather and are flowering their socks off!

10/09/2023

Delighted to share that a visit to this beautiful garden has been added to the 2024 Wales tour.

Another gorgeous day in Shropshire. The Iris are loving all this hot, sunny weather and are flowering their socks off!

07/09/2023

We will appreciate seeing the result of this work when we visit Powis on the 2024 Wales trip.

24/06/2023

Visiting Malverleys was a highlight of the 2023 England tour.

With the best of spring over, head gardener Matthew Reese gets to work in the Flower Garden at Malverleys, coaxing colour and interest from self-seeders, bedding and early flowering perennials until high summer takes hold. Words Matthew Reese. Photographs Jason Ingram.

10/06/2023

We were so fortunate to have Aaron Bertelsen as our tour leader on the 2023 tour.

Vegetable gardener Aaron Bertelsen writes on how a kitchen garden grows. Illustration by Alice Pattullo

08/06/2023

Next year on the Wales tour, we will see this!

06/06/2023

Discover the legacy of Gertrude Jekyll, the 'Queen Victoria of horticulture'

01/06/2023

I'm happy to see the National Trust is going to preserve Munstead Wood, and I'm hopeful it will be open in time for our 2024 Lutyens/Jekyll tour!

Munstead Wood, the home and garden of pioneering garden designer and writer Gertrude Jekyll has been bought by the National Trust

29/05/2023

On this year’s tour, we saved the best for last. An amazing day at a private garden where we enjoyed lunch under the most magnificent laburnum arch. Here are a lot of photos for you to enjoy.

19/05/2023

Lunch reservation for Wednesday! What a great way to start of the 2023 tour.

02/05/2023

We'll visit one of these on the upcoming tour!

Explore three unique gardens in south-east England, the subject of Secret Gardens of the South East, a sumptumous coffee-table book by Barbara Segall.

23/04/2023

Looking forward to walking through this garden gate when Aaron Bertelsen takes us on a tour of Malverleys this May!

01/03/2023

Another planned stop on the June 2024 tour!

Dydd Gwyl Dewi Hapus!
Happy St. David's Day!

01/03/2023

Definitely on the list of castles we'll visit on the June 2024 tour!

Wales is spoilt for beautiful, evocative and dramatic castles in magnificent locations — yet still Caernarfon Castle stands above the rest.

23/02/2023

I'm delighted to announce there will be two Through the Garden Gate tours in 2024. From June 2-9, we'll tour the gardens, castles, and natural beauty of northern Wales. June 9-16 will find us discovering the work of Edwin Lutyens and Gertrude Jekyll, with stops in London, Exeter, Devon, Hampshire, and Sussex. Both tours are already 50% full, so...if you are interested you might want to reserve a spot! No final commitment until September.

18/01/2023

We'll be touring Tom's garden and we'll also enjoy dinner with Tom on the May 2023 tour!

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27/10/2022

So excited to visit this magnificent castle in May, 2023.

06/10/2022

Here is a photo of the white garden at Sissinghurst from a decade ago! Very much looking forward to seeing how it has evolved. We'll spend a morning there this coming May!

20/09/2022

Beautiful Jekyll garden at Hestercombe - will be a "must see" on the 2024 Jekyll/Lutyens tour.

12/09/2022

Happy Monday! Here's to a lovely week ahead. As we slip into fall, I am taking the time to sift through photos from previous trips. This is a photo of Gravetye Manor from 2019. It will be fascinating to see how this beautiful garden has evolved when we visit for a lunch and garden tour on the May 2023 tour. The white wisteria has now taken over its support structure and I think it will be stunning.

07/09/2022

Mad about dahlias! Look closely and you'll find a young Aaron Bertelsen and youngish Kimberly Olson Peterson peeking over lovely bunches of dahlias in this photo from a decade ago. We're looking forward to working together to host the May 2023 tour!

05/09/2022

It's important to me to create tours where participants can have personal interaction with the gardeners who work to make the gardens so impressive. On the 2022 Cornwall tour, we had the privilege of spending the day with Charles Fox, whose family was responsible for the creation of three significant gardens in Cornwall. Here, Charles provides the history of Trebah.