Autumn Trip to Wisley

Despite starting our Autumn trip to Wisley in the pouring rain, playing speedboats on the motorways and having to take a long detour because Junction 10 on the M25 was closed we had a lovely day out in mostly warm, glorious sunshine.

It was their Taste of Autumn festival with some lovely displays of Autumn fruits and colours near the entrance and then the totally natural glory of Autumn leaves and late flowering plants to feast our eyes in the rest of the garden.

I don't think anyone managed to visit more than a small part of the gardens in the 4 1/2 hours we finally spent there but all voted it a wonderful day out. Several of us enjoyed looking around the wonderful, not so very old, house which used to be the Old Laboratory and now open to the public for the first time, and a few even found time to visit the wonderful Library in the Hilltop building.

All in all a very good day out for our free entry visit this year because we are affiliated as a society to the RHS. Back to Hyde Hall next year as we have found the other three RHS gardens at Rosemoor, Harlow Carr and Bridgewater have proved too far to travel comfortably in one day.