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Glorious Garden Tours

Gardens of Cornwall
plus the Eden Project

April 19 - 26, 2008   

This garden tour is based in Cornwall in the quaint sea-side town of St Ives. We stay here at the same hotel for seven nights and each day we travel by private mini-coach to visit the wonderful gardens of Cornwall. St Ives is a delightful town with a maze-like old fishing quarter and a superb beach. The town is famous as an art centre and studios, shops and galleries are everywhere. The Tate St. Ives, part of the Tate Gallery in London and the Barbara Hepworth Sculpture Garden make for interesting browsing when you are not touring.

Gardens flourish in Cornwall in the mild climate and humid atmosphere and in April the rhododendrons should be in full bloom and fields covered in bluebells. Many of the gardens are part of large historic estates with elegant old country houses sometimes open to the public. Cornwall is also home to the Eden Project, whose architecture of "biomes" is amazing in itself. These biomes contain trees and flowers from all over the world creating a huge theatre of exotic plants. 

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