From our guide to Bed & Breakfast for Garden Lovers
The House: This is a Victorian mansion in the grand style, with staff. Magnificent, luxurious bedrooms; the four-poster room was once used for servicing the dining room, which is more of a banqueting hall...
The Garden: A garden of renown, stunningly romantic all year round. There is a spectacular carpet of snowdrops, snowflakes and aconites in the 70 acres of woodland following the Cambo burn down to the sea...
The House: The wonderful view is a fabulous surprise as you walk in through the front door to the dining hall: the windows opposite look down over the front garden to a 180° panorama...
The Garden: The usual exclamation from visitors to Glecknabae is "Magic!", but the Gimbletts had the foresight and imagination to realise that when they bought the place derelict in 1993, brambles, nettles, warts and all...
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.
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