Visiting Te Parapara garden at Hamilton Gardens. 

We visited the gardens today instead of the Marae (due to a tangi).

After a fantastic welcome at Te Parapara gardens by Pippa and the Kapahaka we enjoyed morning tea in the shade. 
We walked around lots of beautiful gardens.  We looked at flowers,  tomatoes, bumble bees, the Zeppelin, and the old car in the Katherine Masefield garden. 

Our favourite garden was the Indian summer garden as it had lots of water fountains to cool our arms and faces in!