From our guide to Bed & Breakfast for Garden Lovers
The House: Drop from the heights of Clee Hill down narrowing lanes and a secluded valley to find this old estate worker’s cottage beside a stream; its new extension is where you will stay...
The Garden: The Colly Brook bisects the property, tumbling some 350 yards through the south-facing garden created over ten years by Elizabeth and David; a real joint effort...
The House: Think big and think Jacobean - built in 1615 by the then deputy governor of the Isle of Wight, North Court was once the manor house of a 2,000-acre estate...
The Garden: North Court’s astonishing 15 acres have developed over the last four centuries into a garden of historical interest and a paradise for plantsmen...
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 »
