From our guide to Bed & Breakfast for Garden Lovers
Karin and James's 16th-century manor is as all homes should be: loved and lived-in. And, with three-foot-thick walls, flagstoned floors, sit-in fireplaces and stone-mullioned windows...
The House: In Lally and William’s lovely house and garden there’s a comforting sense of all being well in England’s green and pleasant land. St Crida’s Church rises on tip-toes above treetops...
The Garden: One of Cornwall’s loveliest gardens, a tribute to the enormous amount of hard work, dedication and brilliant plantsmanship devoted to these stunning seven acres. The Croggons came here in 1974...
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 »
