Sacha wrote:
And apparently, there's a very good holiday tour company doing visits
to Italian gardens...

If I go to Italy it's for the beach, not the gardens. And since I don't
fly, I've yet to find a tour company that will pander to my needs ...
:-(

(it's a nice trip by train, but I need someone else to do the organising for
me, else I lose all the will to live and go and sit in the strawberry patch
for summer instead)