This year Britain celebrates the 200th anniversary of the Royal Horticultural Society with the Year of Gardening in 2004. As many of the UK`s gardens hold special events, VisitBritain - the authority for tourism in Britain - has updated and relaunched its successful Britain`s Gardens campaign with a free 48-page brochure featuring some 200 gardens throughout England, North Ireland, Scotland and Wales.

The brochure contains a wealth of information to help visitors enjoy Britain`s gardens in whatever season they visit - in winter, the famous snowdrop carpet awaits them at the Painswick Rococo Garden in Gloucestershire, while colour bursts to life in spring with 200 varieties of daffodil at Scotland`s Threave Garden.

Sections reveal the secrets of cottage, wildlife and walled gardens, rooms and parterres as well as traditional plants and planting. There`s city and coastal gardens brushing shoulders with those that have been painstakingly restored to their former glory such as the `Garden Lost In Time` - 15th century Aberglasney Gardens in Carmarthenshire. Discover 70 varieties of England`s national flower amid the rose gardens of Cambridgeshire`s Peckover House or the waterfalls and woodland of fine landscape gardens such as Dinefwr in Carmarthenshire.

Britain`s Gardens urges visitors to experience for themselves the fascinating history behind Britain`s oldest tennis court at Falkland Palace and Gardens in Fife or the herb garden at Hall`s Croft in Stratford-upon Avon that may have treated Shakespeare. There`s advice for creating a British garden abroad and amazing suggestions for finding mazes of all kinds, plus a calendar of events to help plan that trip.