Once again, we were grateful to have access to the beautiful Longstock Water Gardens and Leckford cafe for a day out with some of our group members. 

During the hot spell of weather we had in June, we were lucky to have chosen one of the less hot days and we enjoyed an hour of wandering around the beautiful, peaceful water gardens, with a little shade from the trees, waterlillies in bloom, plants with beautiful flowers and foliage, and ducks sleeping on the grass. 

We followed this with a cream tea in the Cherry Tree Cafe which is in the Longstock Park Cafe grounds. Superbly waited on by Karen and her team who brought the refreshments out to us in the Cherry Tree Cafe.  

We then had a look around the Walled Nursery Gardens where you can walk the stunning 80m herbaceous border and this walled garden is also home to the Buddleja and Clematis collections with a Clematis archway running through the centre.   A quick shopping trip in the Leckford Farm Shop and the Garden Nursery Shop completed our day before heading home.

Here are some of the many photographs from our day out and we are already looking forward to going next year.