In which I chat with Fiona Duncan, who travels the length and breadth of the UK, visiting and writing about hotels and B & Bs for her regular column in the Telegraph.
Although she's always enjoyed visiting gardens, and felt inspired by them, the garden attached to the thatched cottage where her husband grew up, and in which she now lives after a recent move from London, was a source of dismay and disapppointment.
As is the case for many garden owners it felt intimidating and she just didn’t know how to start. Enter a wonderful intuitive gardener called Ruth Farley who agreed to work on her garden if Fiona did so too.
This has turned into a wonderful collaboration and Fiona credits Ruth with supporting her to turn her relationship to the garden around and enhance her day to day wellbeing.
Towards the end of our conversation Fiona Kindly shares some of her favourite places to stay with gorgeous gardens attached, in varying price brackets, and I can’t wait to visit the ones I haven’t already visited.
A lovely conversation which I hope you really enjoy…
Links to the places or people we mentioned are below: