Garden Tours
with Nan Sterman
August 7 – 17 2022, The Netherlands
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Floriade International Horticultural Exposition
Floriade is the most amazing and enormous display of gardens, plants, vegetables, horticulture, agriculture, and technology in the world – and you can be there! We meet up in Amsterdam to start our journey through The Netherlands, including Floraide, the Aalsmeer International Flower Auction and much more. Enjoy the plants, gardens, farms, great food, wonderful people, and a whole lot of fun!
England
“Two thumbs up for Nan’s tours. We’ve enjoyed our England and Southern Spain trips with her and the garden design and plant people very much. The activities, accommodations, meals and transportation are excellent. We are signed up for another and look forward to the experience. Nan adds an element of expertise to the tours with her own extensive knowledge and research.”
Bracey and Richard Tiede
San Jose, CA
Spain
“Visiting the gardens of Southern Spain with Nan Sterman was a revelation and a pleasure. Nan combined visits to famous gardens with lesser known treasures, and interspersed visits to gardens with immersions in local culture. She augmented her own considerable knowledge by drawing on local guides, and created a lively and convivial atmosphere.”
Lesley Stern
South Africa
“Nan knows gardens – and gardeners! She searches for unique and sometimes once-in-a-lifetime opportunities to satisfy her own botanical quests and then generously lets us come along for the ride!
…and her travel companions are nearly as passionate as she is, which means even if you travel alone you are with like-minded souls. I have been on 5 of her excursions and literally pack my bag (and camera!) and leave the rest to Nan.”
Katie Pelisek, Landscape Designer
South Africa
Kirstenbosch Garden
“Traveling with Nan is like traveling with your best friend while visiting great gardens in the company of other people that also enjoy visiting them.
Great pace and fantastic outings.
I highly recommend!”
Amelia Lima, Landscape Designer
About Nan’s Tours
Each year, I lead a tour to see interesting gardens and meet wonderful gardeners around the world.
We go behind-the-scenes and explore places that most garden tours miss, like meeting tulip breeders in Holland, visiting pepper growers in Costa Rica, and discovering an ancient quiver tree forest in in South Africa.
We visit wholesale plant growers and food farmers, hike to see native plants in their native habitats, tour botanic gardens, research labs, pleasure gardens, private gardens….Wherever there are plants, that’s where we go.
Our success is in our many repeat travelers who know every trip will be a fun, fascinating, unforgettable experience.
If you aren’t able to join me on a trip, book me for a presentation. I’ll transport your audience to gardens around the world, or around the corner. Together, we peek over fences and stroll through estates. We walk trails through nature’s beauty and see that beauty interpreted in botanical garden collections – all without stepping on a bus or airplane.
