Britain on the Cheap

The Scottish Snowdrop Festival is popping up at more than 50 gardens across Scotland’s mainland now through March 18. You can marvel at more than 300 types of these dainty flowers, including a footpath sprinkled with snowdrops by a waterfall which inspired Robert Burns in Perthshire. There will be carpets of snowdrops at Culzean Castle [...]

The Royal Oak Foundation, the American arm of the National Trust, wishes everyone a happy holiday with a lovely photo gallery of National Trust gardens in the snow and frost. Enjoy 14 images from The Telegraph, sweeping from Kent to Suffolk to Northumberland.

The Great British Heritage Pass offers entrée into 480 properties around the UK, and now you can download a free iPhone app–to use with or without the pass. Check the castles, stately homes and historic sites out on a map, search by castle or garden or try sample itineraries around the UK.    

Now through Aug. 15, you can save 10% on a Great British Heritage Pass, which is available only to international travelers.  The Pass saves a lot of time and money on admissions to nearly 500 of the UK’s most popular castles, stately homes and palaces.

Wales is becoming such a foodie haven, and travelers can link up with affordable cooking schools to taste locally sourced and prepared Welsh delicacies. The Chef’s Room, Fish & Cookery School was founded by Michelin-star chef Franco Taruschio and Lindy Wildsmith, food writer and cooking instructor in Blaenavon. The school’s in the test kitchens of [...]

Hurry! Snap up a free Frommer’s mobile app guide to London from iTunes for a limited time. The app, usually $4.99, has regularly updated content with the latest reviews, prices and maps.

Have you always wanted to see inside the great buildings and tiny houses of London? Maybe the Old Palace in Croydon where Elizabeth I visited the bishops, the Studios at Kensington Court Mews or Benjamin Franklin’s House in Westminster? Now’s your chance with the free Open House London, the capital’s great architectural showcase Sept. 18-19. [...]

The sumptuous Hampton Court Palace Flower Show continues through July 11 at the royal palace on the Thames. This Royal Horticultural Society spectacle is the largest of its kind in the world. Day tickets start at £22/$33; less for evening hours.

Be sure to order your new, free Yorkshire Gardens guide to visit the suddenly famous “Welcome to Yorkshire’s Rhubarb Crumble and Custard Garden,” winner of the People’s Choice award for best garden at this year’s Royal Horticultural Society’s Chelsea Flower Show. The garden, full of horticultural puns, will be presented at the Great Yorkshire Show [...]

To celebrate Tim Burton’s new hit movie, “Alice in Wonderland,” the National Trust is kicking off an eight-month party at its Antony House in Cornwall near Plymouth. The classic, 18th-century mansion was the only “real” site for the filming of the motion picture. The National Trust is transforming Antony into the fantasy land envisioned by [...]