From our guide to Bed & Breakfast for Garden Lovers
The House: A lovely, low Devon longhouse covered in wisteria, with stone flagging, deep window sills, and elegant furniture. But this is a working farm and there is no stuffiness in Helen and Roger...
The Garden: Roger has a huge interest in countryside management, having worked on The Coast Path and restoring Green Lanes in the South Hams. Helen adores growing flamboyant flowers...
The House: At the head of the Roseland Peninsula, Tregoose is a handsome, late-Regency country house surrounded by rolling countryside. In the drawing room, where a log fire is lit on cooler evenings...
The Garden: Alison, who grew up in Cornwall, has an NDH and has created a lovely garden with a wide variety of plants, which opens under the National Gardens Scheme...
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 »
