From our guide to Bed & Breakfast for Garden Lovers
The House: A beaming welcome from Jocelyne sets the tone. She and Clive are excellent company and, now their children have flown, they are glad to share their home. The 1960s house is warm and stylish...
The Garden: The weeds towered above the children when Jocelyne and Clive bought the field nearly 40 years ago. Once the house was built, they had £5 left for creating the garden...
The House: There are always fresh flowers in Tricia’s house: her style is a blend of the fresh and chintzy as well as the horsey, with an eclectic mix of sporting prints on the walls...
The Garden: Built in the 1890s as a hunting box for the Pytchley Hunt, Guilsborough Lodge makes a handsome focal point for the garden with its mellow brick and tall chimneys...
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 »
