Hamilton Gardens

Last weekend my family and I went to hamilton Gardens. Hamilton Gardens is a huge area of land dedicated to big amazing gardens that look like they belong in a palace! Each garden is unique and was built/grown acording to a theme. My favorite one was the Italian garden.

When I was at the Italian garden I noticed tht they had put white-ish/ cream /light browny looking small stones on the garden paths to make It look authentic. The Italyion garden had 2-3 meter squares with short shaped hedges around the outside of each one. On the inside there were flowers and flat scolpted concrete paterns.

It also had a big water foutain in the middle souronded by 4 lions. The fountain had water comming out the top, and the lions had water comming out of their mouths. The lions and fountain were inside a small circular pool. It was seperated from four bigger, almost square, pools that each had a small bite shaped quater circle cut out of one corner, so that the circle pool fit in the center of them.

At the end of the garden there was a cool, old-time looking building with big pillars and a passage leading through to the other side of the building. The other side was amazing! It was a shady balcony with a spectacular veiw of the Waikato River! 

Here is some photos of some of the gardens...

Here is a link to a cool photo of the Indian Garden. Scroll down past the first photo. Then look for the next one.