We all love a beautiful garden, and it's a rare treat to be able to meander through someone else's patch in your own time.
Here is a hand-picked collection of over 100 special places to stay, in England, Scotland and Wales. We bring you hotels, B&Bs, holiday cottages - on islands, estates and organic farms. Take a course with a Chelsea Gold Medal winner in a secluded valley in Wales; discover a luscious plot planted to excite the wildlife (and the senses) in Somerset. And pick up a few tips on the way: how to squirrel-proof bulbs, what to do with conkers, how to pollinate blossom with a rabbit tail on a stick.
We value these hosts for their hospitality as well as their green fingers, and their houses are ever engaging. You will not be sleeping in the garden shed.
“A wonderful excuse for a break away with a horticultural slant.”
Garden Monthly
“It's the ideal all-round publication for a gardener's weekend away, with lots of detail about the accommodation and the owners' gardens.”
The Times
“Garden Fanatics will love this book.”
BBC Gardeners World
“Honest, personal accounts of gardens visited and enjoyed around the country”
Gardens Monthly
Alastair Sawday is the publisher of the much-loved Special Places to Stay series and a pioneer in the environmental world.
The foreword was written by Tom Hodgkinson, a writer and the editor of The Idler.
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