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Welcome to COOPERSMITH'S, North America's oldest and most trusted garden tour company, specializing in upscale, small-group garden, fine arts, country inn and manor house tours since 1984.
2011 has been a most rewarding year
for us. Not only have more people participated in our tours than
at any time since 2001, but, perhaps even more gratifying, the response
has been overwhelmingly enthusiastic. Having operated tours successfully
for 27 years, one can sometimes get a little blasé about positive
feedback. But the questionnaires, letters, e-mails, and phone calls
I have been receiving after every tour we’ve run so far in 2011
have knocked me off my feet.
Tour members are no longer content
to simply rate their accommodations A or A+. They’ve also started
adding remarks like, “I would happily repeat the same tour, just
to stay in the same wonderful hotel!” Our clients have always extolled
the virtues of our extraordinary tour leaders. But recently I’ve
been receiving comments similar to this one (for Celia Ribeiro):
“She is beyond ‘incredible’ as a tour guide. Her knowledge, warmth,
and caring....exceed what anyone could expect.” As for the gardens
and landscapes, assertions such as “I knew I would be impressed.
But I did not expect such beauty!” have become the norm.
The year ahead offers some exciting
new travel opportunities. Topping the list is the Floriade, a once-a-decade
horticultural extravaganza in the Netherlands that’s in a league
by itself. We include a full day’s visit there on our May tour of
Belgium and Holland. In June, when the United Kingdom goes all out
to celebrate Queen Elizabeth’s Diamond Jubilee, our new West Country
Gardens trip will dovetail with the spectacular, four-day-long festivities.
In addition to Ty Mawr Mansion, Clow
Beck House, Langley Castle, and Corse Lawn House, all of which won
rave reviews this year, we’ve booked two more superb British manor
house hotels for 2012 (see West
Country tour). On the Continent, we’ve chosen deluxe chateau,
seafront, and canal-side hotels of a similar, superior standard
(Belgium & Holland and
Italian & French Rivieras).
For the first time, we’re offering three tours that allow for extensions
to the acclaimed Chelsea Flower Show (Belgium
& Holland, Scotland,
and Wales); a fourth that
dovetails with the equally renown Hampton Court Flower Show (Northumberland);
and another that features the Malvern Spring Gardening Show (Cotswolds),
which some of our participants now prefer to its more famous cousins.
I could go on. But instead, I’ll let
our clients tell you what they think of our trips (What our clients are saying about our recent tours). And I’ll sign off with the hope that, if you haven’t already
done so, you’ll come join us soon, to see for yourself what makes
our tours truly One-of-a-Kind™!
Happy travels,
"Exceptional
private tours, [by] a luxury garden tour specialist..."
— Martha Stewart Weddings
"A
company that specializes in small groups [where members] are
often taken to private gardens rarely seen..."
— The New York Times
"My
wife recently had the good fortune to meet and speak with
[famous English horticulturalist] Penelope Hobhouse, who recommended
your garden tour as one of the two best in Europe..."
— Collier Espy, Jr., Dothan,
Alabama
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Paul Coopersmith with Halcea Valdes
of Berkeley, Calif. Halcea has traveled
with us on fifteen COOPERSMITH'S tours.
Photo by Suzanne Parker
Left:
Rose by Suzanne Parker, Sissinghurst Castle Garden by Paul Coopersmith
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