From our guide to Bed & Breakfast for Garden Lovers
The House: Light shimmers through swathes of glass in the dining room of this immaculate Kentish oast house and barn; there are off-white walls and pale beams that soar from floor to rafter...
The Garden: For 40 years Mrs Morgan lived in the 15th-century manor next door where she tended the garden which was open for charity; now she has turned her perfectionist’s eye upon these five acres...
Gorgeous. A Roderick James oak-framed barn joined to a 16th-century keeper's cottage: light, airy and with soft views over cider orchards and hop fields. Joanna is creative in her use of colour, there are attractive pictures and books, an open fireplace and a gorgeous drawing room...
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 »
