DAY 1 Monday 6 October 2025 

HOME TO DEVONPORT (D) 

Afternoon flight from Sydney to Launceston or meet in Devonport. Coach transfer to Devonport located on the banks of the Mersey River. Check into your hotel for 2 nights. Welcome Dinner included this evening. 

Accommodation: Novotel Hotel, Devonport 

DAY 2 Tuesday 7 October 2025 

KAYDALE (B/L) 

Bob Cherry is a master nurseryman. Having travelled the world collecting plants, he has now retired to this beautiful corner of North-West Tasmania and made a beguiling new garden with
an unforgettable sense of place. At the time of our visit, poppies, sweet peas and waratahs are picked daily. Spend time with Bob and Derelie this morning in their ‘Master’ garden. Travel on to Nietta and Kaydale Lodge Garden where two sisters work tirelessly to maintain and extend the garden their parents started. Superb stone walls and fences, astonishing pear walk, grand wisteria arbour, kitchen garden with new greenhouse, stand testament to their endeavours. And when the sun goes down, they get busy in the kitchen bottling, pickling and preserving their fruit and vegetables. In spring it’s awash with bulbs; tulips, fritillarias, erythroniums, trilliums and daffodils. 

Accommodation: Novotel Hotel, Devonport  

DAY 3 Wednesday 8 October 2025 

TABLE CAPE TULIP FARM (B/L/D) 

Its all about tulips this morning at Van Diemen’s Tulip Farm on beautiful Table Cape, where tulips are planted in giant coloured bands across the landscape. You will think you are in Holland! Travel inland to Emu Valley and enjoy lunch at the Rhododendron Garden. The combination of cool summers and almost frost-free conditions allows the 900 rhododendron species to grow happily. It’s exquisite! 

Accommodation: Peppers Silo Hotel, Launceston 

DAY 4 Thursday 9 October 2025 

TAMAR RIVER (B/L) 

A day to explore this mighty river. The day starts with a ‘discovery’ tour of Launceston’s lovely old ‘heritage-listed’ city buildings. Seahorse World is next, at Beauty Point, near the mouth of the Tamar. Last stop today is a wine tasting at Waterton Hall cool climate winery with its grand old manor house and fine suite of gardens on the river. 

Accommodation: Peppers Silo Hotel, Launceston

DAY 5 Friday 10 October 2025

LAUNCESTON TO HOBART (B/L) 

We’ll take the Midland Highway to Hobart today with a stop in historic Oatlands on the shores of Lake Dulverton. It’s one of Tasmania’s oldest settlements and consists of 87 original sandstone
buildings, the largest collection in Australia. Next stop is lunch in New Norfolk at The Agrarian Kitchen, Tassie’s adored restaurant, cooking school and kitchen garden. Continue to Hobart,
check in to your hotel for the next 3 nights. 

Accommodation: Crowne Plaza, Hobart 

DAY 6 Saturday 11 October 2025 

HUON VALLEY (B/L) 

First stop this morning is the famous Salamanca market. Then we’re heading down the Huon Valley for a visit to Willie Smith’s Apple Shed to learn about the history of the apple industry in the Huon, and the various heirloom apple varieties. Crawleighwood Garden is our last stop today, a large country garden nestled in the hills. 

Accommodation: Crowne Plaza, Hobart 

DAY 7 Sunday 12 October 2025 

CORINDA COTTAGE (B/D) 

Corinda Cottage this morning, a beautifully restored Victorian villa wrapped in a masterfully executed garden. Free time this afternoon to explore Hobart or an optional visit to the phenomenal MONA (Museum of Old and New Art). MONA’s subterranean architecture showcases David Walsh’s $110m private collection of art and antiquities. Farewell Dinner at famous Mures Upper Deck restaurant this evening.

Accommodation: Crowne Plaza, Hobart 

DAY 8 Monday 13 October 2025

HOBART TO HOME (B/L) 

Enjoy a walk in Hobart’s Royal Tasmanian Botanical Gardens, a grand finale for our spring garden tour. Enjoy lunch before our afternoon flight home from Hobart.