From our guide to Bed & Breakfast for Garden Lovers
The House: Since it was built at the start of the 18th century, this perfect house, set back from the road in a town where they still hold two cattle markets a week...
The Garden: There is a quiet element of the unexpected in Noel’s garden. Perhaps it’s because of his upbringing in New Zealand, at a time when many gardens still clung to traditional English patterns...
The House: You are in a conservation area, yet just five minutes from the centre of Bath. And the views: breathtaking from wherever you stand. The steep valley rolls out ahead of you...
The Garden: An encyclopaedic knowledge of plants and a collector’s delight in finding new treasures have inspired Jane and Anthony’s south-west-facing terraced garden...
Simple farmhouses, Palladian mansions, cottages, modern timber A-frames, 60s brick-built and many manor houses, so you've masses of choice. And that's just the houses. A special garden is part of the package – but not just a garden that is perfect and cared for by a team of gardeners: the owners must be garden lovers. There are huge estates, parklands, policies, tiny courtyards and town gardens in the book; there are alpine gardens, clematis gardens, bog gardens and no end of herbaceousness – many of which are good enough to open for the National Gardens Scheme. Our criteria for choosing them have been that the owners love them, are knowledgeable about them and want to share that joy with guests.
All Special Places from our Bed & Breakfast for Garden Lovers selection »
