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Great Garden Tours: Your complete guide to 34 exciting adventures

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February 3, 2026

Today, I’m delighted to announce the publication of Great Garden Tours, a compilation of stories about the 34 garden tours Loraine and I have led over the past 16 years.

The stories of these popular tours are available in a handy paperback or Kindle ebook, both from Amazon.ca – PAPERBACK and KINDLE

It all started in 2009 with a cruise around Italy to see great gardens. It went on to become a string of fantastic garden tours lasting more than 15 years.

In total, we completed 34 amazing tours. In this wonderfully engaging book, you can read about all the beautiful gardens, iconic destinations, and unique locations, full of artistic, architectural and historical interest.

For many of you, this will be a chance to re-live an exciting trip. For others, it’ll be a good way to find inspiration for future adventures and thrilling explorations.

Everyone can enjoy travelling in this virtual way, through these tales of adventure and exploration into fabulous gardens, picturesque landscapes and exciting cities, full of history and charm.

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Great Garden Tours is available in paperback and Kindle ebook from Amazon.ca. CLICK here to order. Paperback. Kindle.

A love of gardens and gardening was what connected people who came on the tours. It’s one of the key reasons the tours were so successful.

An interest in gardens was certainly a defining filter that brought together likeminded people with similar interests, experiences and taste.

Loraine, and I also took many trips on our own. These personal vacations often gave us inspiration for future group tours.

On our private trips, we always made a point of visiting outstanding gardens. And we never missed an opportunity to attend key garden events and festivals, such as the Chelsea Flower Show and the Philadelphia Flower Show.

This gave us the confidence to later take groups to these shows and to places we knew they would love.

We also made a point of dropping into local garden centres, nurseries and celebrated gardens to see what was trending and cutting-edge in terms of plant material, garden decor and garden design. All of this helped us in the planning of future group tours.

Great Garden Tours is dedicated to the dozens of people travelled with us over the years.

Some came on only one or two trips. Others came on multiple tours and ended up becoming friends, and even still talk about the tour group as “family.”

We appreciate their kindness, intelligence, curiosity and generosity.

Like us, they know it is essential to travel with an open heart and an open mind, and always to embrace the spontaneous and serendipitous with as much enthusiasm as they enjoyed the carefully planned and scheduled.

We wish them all happiness, success and continued joy in their travels.

– Steve and Loraine Whysall