This is not the most exciting blog – but it is quite a significant one.When we started we thought that...

The first part of the garden to be planted, about five years ago, was a gravel strip running from the...

In the six years that we have been here we have only had 'proper snow' twice - both courtesy of...

It's almost a year since we dug the pond - the first stage of a Japanese-inspired garden.  As it turned...

From the start we wanted a pond - but it takes a Covid lockdown to provide enough time to make...

Well its almost been a year since the last Five Acre Barn post.  I realise that there are probably not...

We met Sasha French a few months ago.  Sasha has a lovely bed and breakfast in Great Glemham - Crown...

It’s the start of February.  Most gardeners would have put their tools away in the shed a couple of months...

The Suffolk countryside seems to be full of talented artists.  It’s staggering just how many beautiful things are produced close by...

Some of our favourite hotels and B&Bs, run honesty bars - you fix yourself a drink as if you were...

When we were working with our architect we wanted something different that would stand out and hopefully intrigue potential guests. ...

We have some grand ambitions for the garden bordering by the guest sundecks - which will eventually become a deep...

Aldeburgh really punches above it's weight in so many ways.  Two great illustrations of this are High Tide (11-16 September)...

Aldeburgh is fortunate in being one of the few towns that has managed to continue its carnival tradition when so...

Now we don't pretend that the North Sea Coast owes much to the Mediterranean of Ibiza or the Greek Islands...

Most people wouldn't associate our neck of the woods with contemporary music - for most its all about the classical...

During the building of our new guest wing, it was a pretty much impossible to develop the garden.  Any gardener...

Our architect Greg Blee (www.bleehalligan.co.uk) asked whether we wanted to be entered into the RIBA (Royal Institute of British Architects)...

We have been very lucky in our three years in Suffolk to have been admitted as 'honorary' members of the...

 We like to say to guests welcome to 'sunny Suffolk'.  For the most part this is true, as Suffolk is...

It's hard to believe that our first guests checked in exactly twelve months ago - 8 April 2017 (even harder...