L and L Garden Tours - PlanUrEscape

Do you savor beautiful surroundings, meeting local people, exploring their customs and a relaxing pace?

You don’t have to be a gardener to enjoy our tours. Relish the delight of an English garden.

Magnificent Garden Tours in the British Isles

We design and host one of a kind garden tours mainly to England and the British Isles. We specially select private homes and visit 3-4 a day. Imagine meeting the gardeners themselves and browsing their magnificent gardens. Follow the tour with scrumptious cakes (picture the British Baking Show) and tea or delightful Elderflower water.

We travel by region and also choose which public gardens in the area we feel will be most interesting. Our tours are completely private so we can stop when we wish to visit a historic site, a coastal beach or do some quick shopping in a lovely village.

Sometimes we add tours to other countries. Be sure to check out our Tours page.

2025 Tour – Devonshire

June 21-29, 2025

Devon is the fourth largest county in England, is bordered by the Bristol Channel to the north, the English Channel to the south, Somerset and Dorset to the east, and Cornwall to the west. Gardens in this region are lush and vibrant due to a mild climate, rich soil, biodiversity, and rainfall. We will immerse ourselves in this region’s long tradition of gardening and horticulture visiting many historic gardens, private estates, and horticultural collections which will showcase the lushness of the region.

We will stay at Lincombe Hall Hotel in Torquay.

INCLUDES:

Flights round trip from Boston

All ground transportation

Hotel accommodations, double or twin share

Breakfast and dinner daily

All entrance fees to gardens listed in itinerary

Tours and activities noted in itinerary

Garden expert and tour coordinator

PRICING:

$4675 per person based on double occupancy. Solo supplement $500

$3409 per person based on double occupancy without flights.

$500 deposit non refundable

Deposit $500 (nonrefundable)

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Introducing Layanee & Lorraine (L&L)

Come travel with us and get a perfectly planned, professionally curated garden tour with our expertise.

Layanee DeMerchant is a garden blogger and horticultural expert. Her career was in the garden industry in Southern New England and Layanee co-hosted a Boston Area radio program, “The Garden Guys.” Layanee researches, contacts the local gardeners and selects the gardens we will visit each tour.

https://ledgeandgardens.typepad.com/ledge_and_gardens/

Lorraine Whittemore is a travel agent. With 6 years designing small group tours she knows how to select the best locations, hotels, arrange logistics and make sure each trip goes off without a hitch.