From our guide to Bed & Breakfast for Garden Lovers
The House: A house on a hill – unusual for East Anglia; the lawns fall away and views stretch out over farmland. Richard and Patricia are utterly charming and so easy to talk to...
The Garden: Built by Richard’s grandfather in 1880, Conifer Hill’s garden was laid out at the same time. When the 1987 hurricane destroyed 40 mature trees, the Lombe Taylors decided to give the three acres a complete overhaul...
The House: More a retreat than a B&B. The house, dating from the 15th century, is in the countryside yet a few miles from Tunbridge Wells. Higgledy-piggledy floors and walls...
The Garden: When John and Susie arrived - 27 years ago - the garden was in a state. And those who prefer clipped edges, pristine gaps, well-behaved plants and everything tickety-boo may still think it’s in one...
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.
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