Tony Sissons is a member of the Royal Horticultural Society, the National Trust and the Garden Writers Association. He has been a keen gardener since his childhood, laid out his own gardens in Malaysia, The Sultanate of Oman, Dubai and in the United Kingdom, and has visited hundreds of gardens in many parts of the world.

Tony started in the garden tour business with a colleague in association with the Automobile Association of New Zealand in 1992. Since then their business, Sisley Garden Tours, has welcomed on tour hundreds of independent travellers and groups of visitors from garden clubs, plant societies, alumni associations and botanical gardens from many countries. BBC Television filmed on a tour in 2004.

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Recent reviews by Tony Sissons Stourhead Gardens in West Country, United Kingdom This garden represents man's strict control of nature in a cultured classical way. One of the most complete and best preserved of the 18th century, this ... Palais Het Loo Gardens in Apeldoorn, Netherlands A historical Dutch garden which set the fashion for early formal English landscape gardens. In Apeldoorn a magnificently restored and immaculately ... Hortus Botanicus of Leiden University Gardens in Netherlands Here is an academic garden from the time of the Renaissance and the foundation for the Dutch bulb industry. Founded in 1587, the Hortus Academicus was amongst ... Chateau de Villandry Gardens in Loire Valley, France Who would believe you could make a show of vegetables? Moated renaissance house of 1536 by the banks of the River Cher, just before it flows into the Loire. ... Bodnant Gardens in Wales, United Kingdom Here is the classic flower garden of an ancestral family home. This 80 acre garden planted by the Aberconway family falls broadly into two parts, a formal ... Tony Sissons has written 11 reviews. See more »

Tony Sissons has reviewed 3 countries.