Blooming wonderful: Britain's best springtime escapes, from award-winning hotels to quaint cottages and a summerhouse with links to 王族

Buds are turning to blossoms, bulbs to blooms and birds are singing in the hedgerows.

It’s not just gardeners who want to be out in the garden in the coming weeks. We could all do with a green and pleasant hideaway after our 嵐の, wet winter.

Here are some of the best places to stay in the UK...

BLOOMING WONDERFUL

Enjoy private access to Easton Estate and Walled Gardens by staying in its Gatehouse Lodge

Enjoy 私的な 接近 to Easton 広い地所 and 塀で囲むd Gardens by staying in its Gatehouse 宿泊する

The door to the lodge, located in Lincolnshire, opens onto 12 acres of spring bulbs and flowers

The door to the 宿泊する, 位置を示すd in Lincolnshire, opens の上に 12 acres of spring bulbs and flowers

Enjoy 私的な 接近 to Easton 広い地所 and 塀で囲むd Gardens, 近づく Grantham in Lincolnshire, by staying in its Gatehouse 宿泊する. Its door opens on to 12 acres of spring bulbs, flower gardens and historic terraces 主要な to the River Witham.

詳細(に述べる)s: From £500 for two nights, sleeping two (eastonholidaycottages.co.uk).

LOVELY LAKES

At 燃やす How Garden House Hotel in Bowness, the Lake 地区, the 歓迎会 is in a period house ― but bedrooms stand 分かれて の中で trees and flowers in the garden. The award-winning lakeside grounds were designed by celebrated Victorian landscaper Thomas Mawson.

詳細(に述べる)s: (テニスなどの)ダブルス from £157 for B&B (burnhow.co.uk).

GREAT SCOTS

Behold the Head Gardener?s House at Floors Castle in Kelso, situated in the Scottish Borders

Behold the 長,率いる Gardener’s House at 床に打ち倒すs 城 in Kelso, 据えるd in the Scottish 国境s

Here, you can stay in a 200-year-old two-bed stone cottage in a Victorian walled garden

Here, you can stay in a 200-year-old two-bed 石/投石する cottage in a Victorian 塀で囲むd garden

旅行 to the Scottish 国境s to stay at the 長,率いる Gardener’s House at 床に打ち倒すs 城 in Kelso. Stay in a 200-year-old two-bed 石/投石する cottage in the Victorian 塀で囲むd garden and enjoy 排除的 after-hours 接近 to its four acres, with its 罰金 herbaceous 国境s.

詳細(に述べる)s: Three nights from £825, sleeping four (crabtreeandcrabtree.com).

GLOS GLORY

At the Three Choirs Vineyard in Gloucestershire, guests can stay in glass-塀で囲むd oak-でっちあげる,人を罪に陥れるd 宿泊するs dotted between the vines, which burst into colour from March. Sparrowhawks, foxes and キツツキs can be spotted ― and the famous Golden Daffodil Triangle of Dymock is a two-mile wander away.

詳細(に述べる)s: From £205 a night, sleeping two (three-choirs-vineyards.co.uk).

DEVON DREAM

Stroll along private paths between flowerbeds at The Walled Garden in South Devon

Stroll along 私的な paths between flowerbeds at The 塀で囲むd Garden in South Devon

The 塀で囲むd Garden in the Dart Valley, South Devon, is a pretty four-bed holiday cottage with its own 塀で囲むd garden, recently featured on BBC Gardeners’ World.

Stroll along 私的な paths between flowerbeds to the dragonfly pond or get tips from the RHS-trained owners pruning in the orchard.

詳細(に述べる)s: From £195 for a one-night stay (coolstays.com).

POSH PRIMROSES

Spring Cottage?at Cliveden, Berkshire, is set among carpets of primroses and daffodils in a National Trust wood

Spring Cottage?at Cliveden, Berkshire, is 始める,決める の中で carpets of primroses and daffodils in a 国家の 信用 支持を得ようと努めるd

The sumptuously converted summerhouse is where Queen Victoria used to take afternoon tea

The sumptuously 変えるd summerhouse is where Queen Victoria used to take afternoon tea

The exclusive three-bedroom cottage is available from £2,250 a night and sleeps six

The 排除的 three-bedroom cottage is 利用できる from £2,250 a night and sleeps six

Spring Cottage at Cliveden, Berkshire, is an 排除的 ― and expensive ― three-bed cottage の中で carpets of primroses and daffodils in a 国家の 信用 支持を得ようと努めるd on the banks of the Thames. It’s a sumptuously 変えるd summerhouse where Queen Victoria used to take afternoon tea, and Kenneth Graham wrote 勝利,勝つd In The Willows, all within the grounds of Cliveden Hotel.

詳細(に述べる)s: From £2,250 a night, sleeping six (clivedenhouse.co.uk).

KENT CASTLE?

Within the grounds of Walmer 城 in Kent is the two-bedroom Garden Cottage, which 申し込む/申し出s a chance to stroll through orchards of cherry and apple blossom from your door, or 調査する acres of daffs, bluebells and fritillaries.

詳細(に述べる)s: From £540 for three nights (english-遺産.org.uk).

MARVELLOUS MAGNOLIAS?

The Garden Cottage at Wootton Hall, Derbyshire is by a 12-acre ericaceous garden of rhododendrons and magnolias. It’s owned by nearby gastropub, the Duncombe 武器.

詳細(に述べる)s: Three nights from £750, sleeping six (duncombearms.co.uk).

WELSH WONDERS?

Staying at Y Bwthyn Bach Cottage in Pembrokeshire, you are within the superb Dyffryn Fernant RHS gardens ―open to the public to admire from 復活祭, but you can stay 夜通し all year. This humble one-bed 石/投石する, whitewashed outbuilding is almost hidden by 工場/植物s, and is without a TV or 動きやすい signal, but the 補償(金) is famous 陳列する,発揮するs of tulips and blossoms on your doorstep.

詳細(に述べる)s: From £498 a week, sleeping three (dyffrynfernant.co.uk).

NORFOLK TREAT?

This three-bed holiday home at?Wolterton Hall offers private access to one of the country's largest walled kitchen gardens, and avenues of spring fruit blossom

This three-bed holiday home at?Wolterton Hall 申し込む/申し出s 私的な 接近 to one of the country's largest 塀で囲むd kitchen gardens, and avenues of spring fruit blossom?

工場/植物 lovers adore the Garden House, a wisteria-draped 18th-century cottage, at Wolterton Hall, within the Walpole family’s 500-acre landscaped 広い地所. The dog-friendly, three-bed holiday home 申し込む/申し出s direct 私的な 接近 to one of the country’s largest 塀で囲むd kitchen gardens, and avenues of spring fruit blossom and carpets of spring bulbs.

詳細(に述べる)s: Seven nights from £512, sleeping six (holidaycottages.co.uk).

BALMORAL BEAUTY?

Tigh Na Garaidh (‘Gardener’s Cottage’) is a pretty Victorian cottage on the Balmoral 広い地所. You’ll wake up と一緒に Charles’ 栄えるing 温室s, surrounded by a 抱擁する 生産力のある garden ― but only when the 王室のs aren’t in 住居. Beyond the veg patches, 推定する/予想する 列s of spring daffs.

詳細(に述べる)s: From £720 a week, sleeping four (balmoralcastle.com).