From our guide to Bed & Breakfast for Garden Lovers
The House: Roberta and John are generous hosts and great fun. Their charming, listed, 17th-century hall house has a ground-floor cottage annexe, prettily furnished with its own little sitting room...
The Garden: Arrive down the drive in June and you are engulfed by colour and scent - and roses wafting in that gentle, English-garden way. The Ainleys are a great team...
The House: Rolling hills and woodland, long views over luscious Kent, and a lovely garden that Alison has created entirely herself. This is a modern bungalow, a rare phenomenon in this book...
The Garden: Perfectly designed, brilliantly executed – Alison has come a long way since this garden was a field. She used to picnic here as a child, admire the view and dream about living here...
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 »
