Grief, loft extensions and naked gardening
The Ins & Outs
Pollyanna Wilkinson
4.9 • 911 Ratings
🗓️ 17 March 2026
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
In this episode we tackle your questions, covering dog-friendly planting, attic wallpaper, and the debate between loft conversions and garden rooms. Jojo shares an emotional update on her first year of grief and some big renovation news, while Polly reveals her latest beauty adventure.
This week's episode is sponsored by Gravetye Manor, a historic country house hotel in West Sussex, with a Michelin-starred restaurant and one of the most beautiful gardens in England. Listeners who book dinner, bed, and breakfast at Gravetye Manor on select dates in April 2026 can enjoy a complimentary garden tour (usually worth £30 per person) by quoting InsandOuts, at the time of booking. The tour is led by a senior member of the gardening team and is available at 11am on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays (excluding Bank Holidays) and can be enjoyed at the beginning or end of the stay, depending on when you book. No cash alternative and management's decision is final.
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| 0:00.0 | Green, the color of true elation, pine on the summers day. See, I've been waiting for you, waiting for you. |
| 0:11.8 | Welcome to this week's episode of The Inns and Out with myself Polly Wilkinson and myself, Jojo Bar. |
| 0:17.0 | In this week's episode, we are talking lofts, attics, garden rooms. |
| 0:21.3 | We're talking grief, dog-friendly plants and what we are injecting in our faces. |
| 0:26.9 | And this week we are sponsored by the absolutely glorious Gravetai Manor. |
| 0:31.9 | If you're not familiar with it, it's one of England's most iconic garden hotels. |
| 0:36.3 | It's set in the Sussex countryside, quite near East |
| 0:38.9 | Grinstead. And it's this beautiful Elizabethan Manor. It was once the home of a really great |
| 0:44.0 | gardener called William Robinson, who was really formative in naturalistic planting. And he |
| 0:50.9 | helped shape the entire modern world of garden design. But today it is the most |
| 0:56.3 | spectacularly beautiful garden. It's one of my absolute favorite ones to go and visit. |
| 1:02.1 | And even better, it is home to a Michelin-starred restaurant with incredible seasonal produce. |
| 1:09.2 | I cannot tell you, I have had two of the best meals of my life at Gravetight. |
| 1:15.7 | Jojo, I know you've not been yet and brace yourself when we do go because they have a walled garden, |
| 1:22.3 | the walled garden of dreams and inside which is just full of produce and which they're using the restaurant. |
| 1:29.3 | And it's a hotel as well. |
| 1:31.3 | It's just so beautiful. |
| 1:33.3 | If you want a really, really special day out, either for a lunch or for a dinner, if you're |
| 1:38.1 | celebrating something, you want to go swoon over some gardens and eat some incredible food, |
| 1:42.2 | I really cannot recommend Gravetty enough. |
| 1:45.3 | Wonderful. And they've got a little offer for us in ease and outies. Anyone that books dinner, |
| 1:51.1 | bed and breakfast at Gravetty on select dates in April can enjoy a complimentary garden tour by |
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