About us

: Jacky

: Jackie Crick

: Sue

The Wisteria Story

The story begins not in 2016, but a decade earlier, when Jackie Crick, a retired university lecturer and local magistrate, transformed her passion for visiting beautiful gardens into a small business called Gardeners’ Delight.

This hobby business blossomed organically into something more substantial when Jackie’s daughters returned to Shropshire from South America and Surrey to launch Wisteria Tours, encapsulating that same attention to detail while expanding into a wider range of UK destinations.

Our tours are unique drawing on the personal service that only a small family business can offer.

Meet the team

Jacky Burnell

Jacky spent 15 years living in South America where she was president of the Pour Les Enfant children’s charity. She returned to Shropshire in 2007 and completed a degree, became a school governor and led community projects bringing school children and older people together through gardening. As her mother became ever busier with Gardeners’ Delight, she joined the firm to work alongside her.

Sue Burnell

Relocating to Shropshire from Surrey in 2014, Sue moved to be nearer her family. After many years running a consulting practice with her husband Kev, she longed to spend more time in beautiful gardens and less in client offices. So when their son left home Sue saw the chance to launch herself into a new venture – Wisteria Tours.

Jackie Crick

Jackie is a retired lecturer from the University of Wolverhampton, a JP as well as a mother of five and grandmother of nine. She set up Gardeners’ Delight in 2006 after “retiring” and now helps with Wisteria Tours, organising the company’s day trip schedule and generally putting her expertise and knowledge to good use within the business.