Description: Family run plant nursery and river garden cafe
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Originally it was a family house with Victorian Tea Rooms and a tennis court, croquet lawn and a very basic holiday accommodation in the grounds. There's a lovely photograph on the wall in the cafe of Victorian ladies in their gorgeous dresses takin tea and rowing on the river.
The gardens were bought in the 1970's by Pat and the late Bill Perry. It was quite rundown at that time with a tea room in the lounge of the house, an old boathouse and caravans and holiday cabins in varying degrees of disrepair. Over the years they improved and developed the site and landscaped the gardens.
The licensed cafe is now in the renovated, old holiday cabins overlooking the river and the Garden Centre has evolved from being Pat's hobby into a nursery specialising in unusual plants.