From our guide to Bed & Breakfast for Garden Lovers
The House: The Harlands have a beautiful old house, built as a hall in 1490, with sloping, uneven floors, mullioned windows and rare dragon beams. Views reach across the Brede valley...
The Garden: Just as the house is a mix of very old and deliciously modern, so is the garden. Although Linda and Stuart inherited some lovely old trees, a wood (once frequented by smugglers, apparently)...
The House: One of Liz’s sons is an artist and his work appears all over her lovely, relaxed home. Although her children are now grown up, a family atmosphere prevails and all is practical rather than frilly...
The Garden: Trained as a dress designer, Liz swapped her needle for a spade and created this two-acre garden around her old family home from scratch. A large job to tackle...
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 »
