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GARDENS OF WITH UBC ALUMNUS GARY LEWIS | JUNE 24 – JULY 3, 2022

Join me for a superlative tour of the Emerald Isle to explore the best gardens Ireland has to offer. We’ll visit large, historical estates and important botanical gardens as well as intimate and experimental private gardens with all the personality of their colourful owners. You’ll have the opportunity to meet and be toured by head gardeners and garden personalities. You’ll discover a great diversity of temperate and subtropical plants and a variety of gardening styles from historical to modern. You’ll also take in beautiful cities, quaint towns, and the gorgeous Irish countryside and experience a little of the local culture along the way.

– Gary Lewis

STUDY LEADER UBC alumnus Gary Lewis is the owner of Phoenix Perennials, an award-winning, cutting edge, retail and mail order nursery in Vancouver, and an expert on perennials and horticulture. He holds two degrees from UBC in Conservation Biology and Plant Ecology. He is one of Canada’s most knowledgeable plant experts with a deep and special interest in rare and unusual herbaceous perennials. In addition to his work as a busy nurseryman, Gary is also a popular garden lecturer. In 2013 Gary was selected as “Communicator of the Year” by the BC Landscape and Nursery Association and in 2014 as one of Canada’s Top 10 horticultural professionals under 40 by Greenhouse Canada magazine. He is the author of the forthcoming book The Timber Press Encyclopedia of Ground Covers due out in spring 2022. Gary has led previous trips with alumni UBC to South Africa, New Zealand, and Australia.

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WHY TRAVEL WITH THE ALUMNI UBC TRAVEL CLUB?

• Visit Jimi Blake’s Hunting Brook Gardens

• Visit with horticultural author Seamus O’Brien at Kilmacurragh Belfast Botanic Gardens

• Tour Altamont Gardens with Head Gardener Paul Cutler

• Explore the renowned gardens of Garnish Island Dublin IRELAND • Enjoy outstanding countryside accommodation

Kenmare Ardmore

WORLDWIDEQUEST.COM/ALUMNIUBC | TOLL-FREE 1-800-387-1483 / 416-633-5666 | [email protected] | 491 KING ST. E. TORONTO, ON M5A 1L9 DETAILED ITINERARY Kilmacurragh Botanic Gardens Friday, June 24: Meet in Dublin Arrive in Dublin and make independent arrangements to reach our city centre hotel. Meet Gary, our Irish host Marianne Gorman, and participants for a briefing this afternoon followed by dinner together. Overnight: Buswell’s Hotel, Dublin Meals: Dinner

Saturday, June 25: Dublin Get a good look at historic Dublin today. Stroll the lovely, well-preserved Georgian streets, visit the magnificent state apartments of , amble through the grounds of the 16th century Trinity College to the Old Library to view the breathtaking illuminated Book of Kells manuscript, and admire the spectacular flying buttresses of Christchurch Cathedral. Monday, June 27: Mount Usher and Kilmacurragh After a satisfying pub lunch, head to the National Botanic Today we visit Mount Usher Gardens, a fine example of Gardens. Meet director Matthew Jebb and tour the exquisitely a ‘Robinsonian’ style garden combining a distinguished restored historic glasshouses and the important collections collection of trees and shrubs with informal planting of plant species and cultivars from around the world. schemes. Enjoy lunch at nearby Hunter’s Hotel, Ireland’s Overnight: Buswell’s Hotel, Dublin oldest coaching inn with picturesque gardens along the banks Meals: Breakfast, Lunch of the River Vartry. Then on to Kilmacurragh Botanic Gardens, developed extensively during the 19th century, a period of great botanical and geographical explorations. Here enjoy an extensive visit with Seamus O’Brien, who recently published a major work of horticultural literature, retracing the 19th century celebrated botanist Joseph Dalton Hooker’s steps through the natural wonders of the Himalayas. Overnight: Buswell’s Hotel, Dublin Meals: Breakfast, Lunch

Tuesday, June 28: and Powerscourt We start with a visit to Killruddery House and gardens, home to the Earls of Meath. The gardens were designed in the 17th century making them the oldest intact gardens in Ireland. Altamont Gardens The 800-acre estate is a sustainable, bio-diverse farm that includes world-renowned gardens, a flowering woodland, high-hedged pathways, and a Walled Garden. Continue to Sunday, June 26: Gardens of Powerscourt, ranked by National Geographic as number 3 Hunting Brook in the foothills of the lofty Wicklow mountains in its Top Ten Gardens of the World. Marvel at the sublime is one of Ireland’s largest private collections of plants with many blend of formal gardens, sweeping terraces, secret hollows, examples of the fiercely colourful and theatrically beautiful, and rambling walks. large-scale planting combinations for which the noted Irish Overnight: Buswell’s Hotel, Dublin horticulturist Jimi Blake has become so well known. After Meals: Breakfast, Dinner visiting here, continue on to June Blake’s garden (sister to Jimi) to explore her exciting, experimental, and contemporary garden with areas of exciting, bold herbaceous planting and Killruddery House a shade garden of ferns, grasses, bamboos and other choice woodland plants punctuated by enormous granite boulders. At Russborough we’ll tour the magnificent house and the 18th century walled garden currently being restored by volunteers from the Royal Horticultural Society of Ireland. On our way back to Dublin, visit Helen Dillon’s garden by the sea in Monkstown, where Ireland’s ‘Queen of Gardening’ has set out to create a new garden of extravagant beauty. Overnight: Buswell’s Hotel, Dublin Meals: Breakfast, Dinner

WORLDWIDEQUEST.COM/ALUMNIUBC | TOLL-FREE 1-800-387-1483 / 416-633-5666 | [email protected] | 491 KING ST. E. TORONTO, ON M5A 1L9 Wednesday, June 29: Waterford Head out of Dublin this morning en route to Waterford. Our first stop is at Coolcarrigan Gardens with its wonderful arboretum. This is the home of Robert Wilson Wright who has travelled extensively with Seamus O’Brien on plant hunting expeditions. Then at Burtown House we’ll tour their various gardens including herbaceous and shrub borders, a rock garden, and an old orchard before enjoying lunch at the Green Burtown House Barn with produce from their walled kitchen garden. Our final visit will be to Altamont Gardens, where the head gardener Paul Cutler will tour us through the gardens, filled with both formal, Saturday, July 2: Garnish Island informal, and exotic elements and unique plant collections. In the sheltered harbour of Bantry Bay, take the ferry from Overnight: Cliff House Hotel, Ardmore Glengarriff to Garnish Island, a renowned 15 hectare garden Meals: Breakfast, Lunch which flourishes in the mild, humid micro-climate. Structures include a clock tower, Grecian Temple, Martello Tower, and an Thursday, June 30: Gardens of County Waterford Italian Temple. Although noted for the “Italian” gardens, there Start the day at , former home of Ambrose is a strong Japanese influence running throughout the design. Congreve, whose head gardener Michael White will tour us Returning to Kenmare, visit to see the fine around. These gardens were inspired by Exbury Gardens, home garden with seven terraces and Italianate gardens and Derreen of Sir Lionel Rothschild, and many of the plants came from there. Gardens to stroll its network of winding paths through the Then into the village of Cappoquin for lunch with the Jamesons 150-year-old woodland garden with sub-tropical plants from (direct descendants of the founder of the whiskey dynasty around the world and incomparable views of the sea Arthur Jameson) at Tourin House. Explore the lovely gardens and mountains. and walled and tree lined avenues on the banks of the Overnight: Sheen Falls Hotel, Kenmare Blackwater River and admire the beautiful, working Irish red Meals: Breakfast, Lunch setters! At , owned by the Duke of Devonshire, visit the 16th century walled garden filled with ornamental Sunday, July 3: Dublin borders and food gardens and the 19th century informal lower Today we return to Dublin, stopping in at garden of meandering paths and ancient yew tree avenues, to explore the highlights of over 60 acres of parklands with all contained within the castle walls. diverse gardens, avenues, and arboretums including the Overnight: Cliff House Hotel, Ardmore Poison Garden filled with poisonous plants from around the Meals: Breakfast, Lunch world. Enjoy time at leisure this afternoon in Dublin before our celebratory dinner this evening. Friday, July 1: Kenmare Overnight: Buswell’s Hotel, Dublin We leave our hotel today and drive to Kenmare, a thriving Meals: Breakfast, Dinner market town and fishing port. En route, visit the splendid vegetable and walled gardens of the Ballymaloe Cookery School Monday, July 4: Depart Dublin laid out by Darina Allen. We continue on to Anne’s Grove, an The main tour concludes after breakfasting this morning. 18th century house with a largely early 20th century garden Participants make independent arrangements for departure including a woodland garden with an interesting collection of or carry on with the optional extension to Belfast. rhododendrons, a river garden, a walled garden, a wildflower Meals: Breakfast meadow, and a lily pond. This evening enjoy dinner with local music at a delightful restaurant in Kenmare. Overnight: Sheen Falls Hotel, Kenmare Note: The itinerary and accommodation described in this tour Meals: Breakfast, Dinner brochure are subject to change due to logistical arrangements and to take advantage of local events.

Helen Dillon’s garden Hunting Brook Gardens Kilmacurragh Botanic Gardens

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BELFAST, NORTHERN IRELAND JULY 4 – 7, 2022

Monday, July 4: Drive to Belfast Wednesday, July 6: Grey Abbey Gardens, Mt Stewart Head north today, crossing the border into Northern Ireland. Travel to the east shore of Strangford Lough to Grey Abbey At Hillsborough Castle, Northern Ireland’s royal residence, House where we visit the mature woods, shrub rose borders, explore the 18th century walled garden, the Victorian garden and a Southern Hemisphere garden. Continue to features, and the Moss Walk. Then at the wonderfully wild where we meet Head Gardener Neil Porteous who will show us haven of Rowallane admire the diverse plant collections the rich tapestry of design and great planting that were laid out through formal and informal gardens including the walled around the house at a time when garden design had reached an garden, the Rock Garden Wood, and wild flower meadows exquisite peak. Return to Belfast this evening. rich with orchids. Overnight: Maldron House, Belfast Overnight: Maldron House, Belfast Meals: Breakfast, Dinner Meals: Breakfast, Dinner Thursday, July 7: Depart Belfast Tuesday, July 5: Botanic Gardens and the Causeway Coast Your tour concludes after breakfasting this morning. Start the day at the Belfast Botanic Gardens established Participants make independent arrangements for departure. in 1828 to house exotic tree species and impressive plant Meals: Breakfast collections from the southern hemisphere. Then drive along the Causeway Coast to admire the landscape of dramatic cliffs and the famed Giant’s Causeway comprised of 40,000 basalt stone columns left by volcanic eruptions 60 million Extension Cost (per person): Approx. $1795 years ago. Visit Benvarden Gardens, Ballymoney, home of the Montgomery family, to see superb red brick walled Includes: Accommodation for three nights at hotel listed gardens and enjoy a lovely tea with scones! or similar, based on double occupancy, meals as indicated, Overnight: Maldron House, Belfast transportation by private coach, all activities and garden Meals: Breakfast, Tea visits, gratuities for group services.

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TOUR DETAILS

Tour Cost (per person): Approx. C$5995 Including all taxes and gratuities.

Single Supplement: Approx. C$1895 We would be happy to try to match you with a suitable roommate. If we are unable to, the single supplement will apply. This will be collected at 90 days prior to departure.

Group Size: 16 ­– 24 participants

What’s Included: Not Included: • Accommodation, based on double occupancy, • Arrival and departure transfers in hotels as listed or similar • International airfare from your home to Ireland • Transportation by comfortable private coach • Fuel surcharges (if applicable) • Meals as indicated in the itinerary • Meals not listed in the itinerary • Presentations by Gary Lewis • Beverages with meals • All activities as listed in the itinerary • Phone calls and items of a personal nature • Private tours at all the gardens • Additional transport required due to any • All entrance fees emergency situation • Services of your tour manager • Gratuities for all group services • All taxes Payment Details: A deposit of C$500 per person is required to reserve your space on this tour. A payment of C$1000 is due six months prior to departure. The balance is due 90 days prior to departure.

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Joining Instructions This tour begins with our briefing at Buswell’s Hotel, Dublin at 5PM on June 24th. Please note that travellers will make their own arrangements to reach the hotel at the beginning of the tour. The main tour concludes at the hotel in Dublin after breakfast on July 4th.

Level of Activity: Moderate Most areas are easily accessible to all with a small number of walks in rougher hill country. When walking, we’ll move at a leisurely pace, with frequent stops, on ground which may be hilly. Sturdy shoes are strongly advised. A trekking pole is also useful for extra balance. You should be comfortable walking for up to two hours at a time, unassisted, over uneven terrain a few times a day as we visit different gardens. If you have any concerns about being able to participate in this trip, please contact us for further information.

Accommodation Buswell’s Hotel is a small, charming, ‘old-style’ hotel in the heart of Dublin, across the street from the National Library and National Museum. Rooms are decorated in warm tones. Bathrooms, though small, are modern.

Cliff House is one of the finest small luxury hotels in Ireland with a gravity-defying location on a cliff on the south side of Ardmore Bay. All rooms have floor-to-ceiling sea views.

Sheen Falls Lodge is a luxurious hotel with the feel of a country manor. The grounds reach down to the river and there are wonderful views of Kenmare Bay. Rooms are elegant and spacious.

Rooms at all hotels have private, en-suite bathrooms.

Buswell’s Hotel Cliff House Sheen Falls Lodge

Transportation We will be travelling by comfortable, air-conditioned coach.

Weather Climate is mild and coastal, with daytime highs of about 17 - 19ºC expected. We may experience light showers.

Travel Documents You will require a passport for your trip to Ireland and the UK. Please make sure it is valid for six months after the date of your return home.

Travel advice Before booking, please refer to the Canadian government website to obtain travel advice for the destination(s) you are visiting: www.travel.gc.ca

Russborough garden

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Cancellation Policy All payments are non-refundable, however you may transfer your initial deposit for any land tour to another tour 90 days or more prior to your scheduled departure date. Initial deposits for cruises are non-refundable and non-transferable. Your second payment and your final payment are non-refundable and non-transferable. If you cancel within 90 days prior to trip departure, all associated trip costs are non-refundable. The tour price is quoted as a package. No partial refunds or credits will be given for services not used. In the event of a cancellation, you must notify Worldwide Quest immediately and in writing.

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