From our guide to Bed & Breakfast for Garden Lovers
The House: A mile off a fairly main road but as peaceful as can be. Lavinia has showered love and attention on her early Georgian house and garden in a landscape that has changed little...
The Garden: The Dewars started from scratch - this was just a series of fields around the house. Now it is a beautiful, formal-looking garden and the house is wisteria-clad...
The House: Wonderful for walkers and garden lovers, a Georgian rectory at the foot of the Black Mountains, in the 'golden valley' where Wales and England converge. Inside, stags' heads, family portraits...
The Garden: A secluded three-acre garden which Jenny got her hands on 12 years ago. Then it was just a sloping wilderness of long grass and brambles...
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 »
