Fathers Day at Savill Royal Gardens

“The Royal Landscape is an area of a thousand acres of gardens and parkland, accessible to the public, at the southern end of Windsor Great Park. It includes The Savill Garden, The Valley Gardens and Virginia Water Lake. It is a man-made landscape, which has been shaped and planted over a period of 400 years. The Crown Estate is the owner and steward of Windsor Great Park.”

It is Fathers Day and I have a serious hankering for English Cream Tea.  And no, this is not a dollop of cream in a cup of tea, it means big chunky scones piled high with jam and cornish clotted cream and the tea comes on the side.

After a few minutes of google searching for the best place to have cream tea, I came across the Royal Savill Gardens with their tea room renowned for … Cream Tea! Plus the fathers enter free on Fathers day!

The grounds were really stunning and we took our time meandering through the many paths into secret gardens, winter gardens, spring gardens and beautiful formal summer gardens.

As we neared the back fence, we heard the sound of bugles.  We ran over to the fence in time to watch a whole procession of horse drawn carts trotting past.

Sarah leading the way with her trusty map.

 

The flowers were beautiful, but Colin’s photography even better.