Hampton Court Palace and Vita Sackville Wests Sissinghurst

Vita Sackville Wests Sissinghurst: Call me a yahoo, but I no longer want to line up with hordes of other hot, grumpy tourists outside museums in Paris. To heck with Van Gogh and his overhyped sunflowers and irises. I d much rather stroll around a lovely, uncrowded garden, looking at real flowers, according to The Star. The Brits have always attracted loads of rubberneckers to their famous gardens, including Hampton Court Palace and Vita Sackville Wests Sissinghurst . But now, other countries are going after those tourist dollars. We re even doing it. The fledgling Canadian Garden Council recently handed out a fistful of awards which aim to make folks around the world more aware of everything from Charlottetowns colourful Tulip Festival to the Devonian think dinosaur plants Botanic Garden in Alberta and Whats your idea of a perfect summer vacation? And it seems growing numbers of people agree with me. One of the hottest trends in travel today is a phenomenon called garden tourism. We re visiting gardens like never before surely no surprise in our frantic, overcrowded world where there are so few opportunities to unwind. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.