Gardens

12 days/11 nights. Departures April 22, May 28, July 11 (includes Hampton Court Flower Show) & Aug. 17, 2009. Highlights: Manor house at Upton Grey/in Salisbury, Bowood House & Garden/in Cornwall, Endsleigh Garden, the Eden Project, Lost Gardens of Heligan, Glendurgen/Devon fishing villages/historic gardens at Forde Abbey/Cerne Abbas Giant. Land only, £2,030 ($2,951). Single supplement, £320 ($465). Midway Motor Travel (Southerwicks, Corsham, Wiltshire, England SN13 9NH; 800/214-8738, www.midwaymotor travel.com).

Kenilworth Castle, one of the most spectacular castle ruins in England, is re-creating one of the greatest gardens of the Elizabethan age. It will be fully open to the public in May 2009, with carved arbors, a bejeweled aviary and an 18-foot-high fountain.

Sneak-preview guided tours are offered at 2 and 3 p.m. each Friday through March 31. Kenilworth Castle & Gardens (www.english-heritage.org.uk/kenilworthcastle) is open 10-5 daily. £6.20 adult, £3.10 child. 

Founded in 1759, the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (www.kew.org), celebrates its 250th anniversary in 2009. (Open 9:30-4:15. £13 adult; free for children under 17.)

The 18th-century Camões Garden is a public park on the northwestern waterfront in Macau. The Portuguese owner of the garden built a grotto around a bust of the Portuguese national poet, Luís de Camões. Among walkways and flowering trees, other attractions include a Chinese pavilion and a fountain sculpture symbolizing China’s relationship with Portugal. Open 6 a.m.-10 p.m.

Eight-day/seven-night garden tour of ENGLAND; May 22-29, 2012. Highlights: In Kent, 15th-century Great Dixter House and Garden/R.H.S. Wisley Garden glasshouse has three climate zones (tropical, temperate and dry)/Leeds Castle and garden/Sissinghurst, “England’s most beautiful garden”/in Sussex,14th-century Scotney Castle and garden/half-day in London/Chelsea Flower Show. Land, $2,999. Single supp., $998.

Lynott Tours, Inc. (Mineola, NY; 800/221-2474).

A Garden of Earthly Delights — July’s photo shows the Kesar Kyari Bagh, a garden named for the rare saffron flowers which once grew in the star-shaped terraced beds.

It’s at the Amber Fort near Jaipur, India.

Twenty-five readers came “close” to the correct answer (citing the general location but not the name of the garden).

Eight readers correctly guessed the location of the sculpted ladies in the June ’04 issue.

They can be found at the entrance to the Alameda Park & Gardens in Santiago de Compostela, Spain.

The mystery photo in the May 2014 issue was taken in the Irish National Botanic Gardens in Glasnevin, a neighborhood in the Northside area of Dublin, Ireland. The row of greenhouses is part of a structure called the Curvilinear Range.