We like to stop off on the way home from my parents and generally do so at a garden centre. It gives us chance to maybe buy some plants or other things and have some lunch. It also breaks the journey up a little so that we aren’t driving non-stop for 3\u00bd hours. The trouble is, most of the garden centres seem to be within the first hour of the journey, it would be much nicer if we could find somewhere to stop during the second half of the journey.<\/p>\n
We haven’t been able to find\u00a0anywhere though so usually end up at one of the large garden centres around Newent. There are loads of garden centres there and some of them are huge with decent restaurants too. We have in the past stopped just a little further on at Hampton Court Castle and Gardens<\/a>. These are lovely and the food was good too, but it’s \u00a38.50\u00a0each to get in so not somewhere we can stop every time we are passing. It is about 1hr 20 minutes into the journey though so does break it up a little better.<\/p>\n We also see a sign for a Water Gardens that are pretty much exactly half way on the journey. We were never sure what it was or what they had to offer, or even of their opening times but we looked them up this time and it looked quite good. It is open every day until the end of September from 11am until 5pm and according to the web it had a caf\u00c3\u00a9 serving delicious home cooked food too. The decision was made to visit it. I was after some white Irises for the garden. We weren’t sure if they actually sold plants but if they did, then being a water garden it was likely that they would have Irises.<\/p>\n What a delight! The sun was shining and it was a lovely day as we bumped down the little lane to Westbury Mill Water Gardens<\/a>. There were classic cars parked along the lush green grass and a cooling breeze blowing across the Herefordshire countryside.<\/p>\n\n\t\tWestbury Mill Water Gardens<\/h2>\n