From our guide to Bed & Breakfast for Garden Lovers
The House: From the sofa in your comfortable bedroom you can gaze out on the Malvern Hills and the Black Mountains. In spite of the grandeur of this Georgian house it feels like a lived-in home...
The Garden: A Georgian jewel in a delightful, lofty - 600 feet above sea level - setting. When they arrived, John and Stephanie carefully studied the garden around the house and set to work...
The House: Come to be engrossed in the routines of a wild, engagingly chaotic haven. Ann and Will are friendly, kind and extrovert; guests adore them and keep coming back...
The Garden: Climb and climb the Dartmoor edge with views growing wider and wilder all the time until you reach the stone-walled lane and the sturdy granite buildings of Corndonford Farm...
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 »
