The Beautiful Winter Gardens

Hello, my lovely readers!  Hope you’re having a fabulous day :-)

Today, I’m going to share some photos that I took while touring the Winter Gardens in Auckland Domain with my friend B and her two daughters, S and Z.

The Winter Gardens are located within Auckland’s largest park – the Auckland Domain.  It’s about a 30 minute walk from where I live, which is no trouble at all in nice weather.  I was happy to “discover” it for the first time.  This was one of many trips to the Domain, but I had never been to this part of the park.  I’m so glad that they invited me to join them!

The Winter Gardens are composed of a courtyard bordered on either end by a cold house…

And a hot house…

The insides of both are equally gorgeous, and are the perfect mid-winter retreat…

These two had so much fun, and it was great to see the gardens through S’s eyes…

B and S

After touring the gardens, we met up with friends A & H and walked to the Duck Pond, where S was able to feed the birdies…

S was so cute.  She was a little hungry, too!

And the best part of all?  The entire thing was free.  Didn’t cost a thing!  Yet another reason why Auckland is a fabulous place to live {or visit}!

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10 thoughts on “The Beautiful Winter Gardens

  1. What a beautiful day you had and gorgeous photos too. We visited the gardens when we came up to Auckland in June. Love that the museum is located there too.

  2. Your photos are fabulous! It [specifically the hot house] reminds me a bit of the National Botanical Garden up in DC. So pretty!

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