Garden Art
Art work in your garden provides a critical focus and point of interest, no matter what the season. We can find the perfect piece….
Garden Inspiration
Be inspired – garden shows and events, gardens to stay in, new garden books, all aimed at sparking your creativity and finding new ideas…
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Got ideas, but need help bringing them to fruition or don’t even know where to start, find that help right here. Garden designers, landscapers…
“My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece”
Claude Monet
Latest Blog Posts
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Michael Wells Sculpture at Karetu Downs
View of the Saddlewood homestead from the pond
Michael Wells sculpture at Karetu Downs
Sweeping views from Saddlewood homestead
Richard's replica SS Jaguar
Farmstay accommodation at Karetu DownsHurunui Garden Festival – Day 3 on the home straight
BY admin | 10 November 2021We woke up on Day 3 in the parking paddock at Flaxmere, the legendary Hawarden garden of Penny Zino and wondered how it could get any better than what we had seen so far at the…
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Flaxmere - the vista to Mt Te Koa
Kintail - pencil cyprus
Newstead - stumpery
Flaxmere - perennial borders leading to wild meadow
Hurunui Homestead - perennial border with pink lupin
Flaxmere - Sculpture "Liberation" by Bon SuterHurunui Garden Festival – Day 2 The Jewel in the Crown
BY admin | 7 November 2021After a rather hectic 1st day of our Hurunui Garden Festival (HGF) tour, we agreed to take it a bit easier on Day 2. We woke up early to birdsong in Coldstream, a garden of National…
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Bed of irises at Coldstream
Pond at Coldstream
Perennial bed Hemingford
Clematis at Hemingford
Rhodos at Cathedral Cliffs
Silver birch tied back with a strop at ColdstreamHurunui Garden Festival – Day 1 a miracle of sorts
BY admin | 3 November 2021At this time of year it is difficult to decide which of the garden festivals to visit. The last couple of years we have been to the Taranaki Festivals – so many gardens you could go…
