A trip to Heighley Gate Garden Centre

A group of residents visited Dobbies’ Garden Centre at Heighley Gate in Morpeth last week. The group of residents and volunteers browsed the shop and admired the summer plants, and over a delicious lunch reminisced about their own gardens and favourite plants. After lunch everyone browsed through the store and our volunteers and staff helped support them to do a little shopping in the clothes and homeware sections. Colin said “I loved the trip out, even though it was pouring with rain. The soup I had for lunch was very tasty, and it was great to have a good look round.” John told us how the rain was very heavy and “we just missed getting soaked!” when getting in and out of the bus, whilst Keith ate a slice of cream cake and said “it was delicious”. Thank you to all the volunteers and staff members who came with us on the day, and we hope they’ve finally dried out after the torrential rain!