点评:We started at the café but we're surprised to find no sandwiches at all, we had a sausage roll (soggy bottom pastry) and a cake (one was drowning in sugar). Tea and coffee were ok, but I would have taken a picnic if I'd known it had so little choice. The garden is primarily a spring shrub garden with many trees, not really much in the way of perennials if that is your preference. It was extremely frustrating to navigate as no maps are available but they have a poster you can take a picture of and use that, but a small image on a phone on a bright sunny day didn't make that easy to use! There are many paths but very few signs so be prepared to get lost and have to backtrack, one sign to Eagle pond mentioned going southwest, but as I didn't have a compass, it was hardly helpful! Unfortunately if you do find a sign, the pathways then diverge soon after with no further signage, hence getting lost at more than one point, more than one person was looking bewildered and asking anyone they saw for help, I saw no staff of any kind beyond those at the entrance. It's a garden for the sure footed, nearer the house are gravel paths but further out it's rough track with big stones and tree roots, be prepared with the right footwear if you want to venture down to the ponds etc. I won't come back unless they introduce more signs, I probably missed bits I would have liked to have seen, but after walking over 3 miles, I gave up once I found the way out, I had no will to get lost again!
翻译:我们从咖啡馆开始,但很惊讶地发现根本没有三明治,我们吃了香肠卷(底部是湿软的糕点)和蛋糕(其中一个上面全是糖)。茶和咖啡还可以,但如果我知道选择这么少,我本来会去野餐的。花园主要是春季灌木花园,有很多树木,如果你喜欢多年生植物的话,那里并没有太多。导航非常令人沮丧,因为没有地图。但他们有一张海报,你可以拍张照片来使用,但在阳光明媚的日子里,手机上的小图像并不容易使用!路径很多,但路标很少,所以要做好迷路和原路返回的准备,一个去鹰池的路标提到向西南走,但由于我没有指南针,所以没什么用!不幸的是,如果你确实找到了路标,那么路径很快就会分叉,没有进一步的路标,因此在多个地方迷路,不止一个人看起来很困惑,向看到的人寻求帮助,除了入口处的工作人员外,我没有看到任何工作人员。这是一个适合脚步稳健的人的花园,靠近房子的地方是碎石路,但更远的地方是崎岖不平的小路,有大石头和树根,如果你想冒险去池塘等地方,请准备好合适的鞋子。除非他们提供更多标志,否则我不会再回来了,我可能错过了一些我想看的东西,但是走了 3 英里多之后,我找到出路后就放弃了,我不想再迷路了!