Enjoy a weekend of specialist gardening expertise from Katya Lebedev, owner of the specialist plant nursery Plant d’Avenir  and RHS Ivy Cultivar Registrar.  Katya, who is of American and Russian descent, was brought up in France and speaks English, Russian and French. The language of the course, however, will be English! Visit the Jardins de Gué , with its six specialist gardens and holder of the world’s largest collection of over 600 varieties of Ivies.  Stay in a delightful

Enjoy a weekend in France with Gretta Barclay, the inspirational Watercolour artist who so impressed King Charles he wrote the foreword to her beautiful Hedgerow Calendar and whose botanically inspired gifts have been sold in some of Britain’s most revered shops, including Liberties and Harrods. Stay in a delightful 13th century Priory, the home of Paula Dormer for the past nine years and Superhost on Airbnb. Le Prieuré Pressigny  sits perched on the edge of a beautiful 10,00

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