Roger’s Gardens is a family owned home and garden wonderland in Newport Beach, California. The grounds are filled with flowers, trees, plants, fountains, pottery and buildings that house more plants, furnishings and collectables. It’s like a huge indoor/outdoor gift shop with the cutest, unique stuff. From books to candles to cards to perfume, I wanted everything!!!! You can walk the grounds for hours just looking at the scenery and shopping. There are stations where you make your own arrangements, pot your own plants, and my favorite- a butterfly tree, where you write a wish on a wooden butterfly and tie it to the tree.
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The cherry on top of it all is an amazing restaurant situated overlooking the lower gardens! The restaurant, Farmhouse, is beautifully chic with covered outdoor seating complete with a gazebo. It’s stunning and the farm to table food is so good. I feel like we went at the perfect time, the reservation was at 2:30 and then we walked around the gardens after. We were there until they closed at 6 but could’ve easily walked around longer because it was that pretty. I bought a milk weed plant and a small coffee table book. Overall, I loved it and can’t wait to go back, especially during holidays, they are known to go all out with their decor for Halloween and Christmas.
They sell drinks, merchandise and pastries. But if you want to take it to the next level, you can make a reservation for the Bow room, which is a small room through a locked door in the back of the cafe. It is reservation only and is usually booked far in advance. You can take a risk and walk in and hope that someone cancels, the odds are slim so my advice would be to make a reservation online to guarantee a spot. It almost feels like a secret society and once you go in, it’s a magical Hello Kitty pink paradise! The bow room has tea service during the day ($55 per person before tax and tip). Each person is served sweet and savory bites along with a personal teapot filled with the tea of their choice. In the evening the bow room transitions into a speakeasy complete with Hello Kitty cocktails. I still need to go back for the cocktails!
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