Large 3 ha, 20 gardens established 30 years. Emphasis on N Z natives and N Z raised varities of garden plants. 100's of ideas for garden design, planting & maintenance. 120m N Z Border of native plants with year round colour form & texture with about 10% of maintenance of traditional perenial border in the English style that with perhaps just 7 months looking good and requires a very experienced gardener to do well, 140m canal with formal planting of kahikatea specimens & totara hedging and many water lilies. Large oval area with specimen trees. Long vistas, hedges of totara 1.5km (Jack Hobbs Director Auckland Regional Botanic Garden says best he has seen. No relation) miro(same family as yew but lighter green & to do with N Z), corokia and as alternative to box Snow Totara(guaranteed not to get box blight). Large rhododendron garden with mostly Asiatic plants; primula,(auricular) lilies, hardy cyclamen, bamboos, topiaried wistaria, flowering cherry & crabapples, hellebores, magnilias & michalias. Large rose garden designed & planted to minimise maintenance mostly recent varities etc. 100 plus kauri trees and 100 other species of kauri forest trees, shrubs, climbers & ferns. Good Templeton silt loam soils about 600mm rainfall, frosts to about- 4 degrees C strong summer nor westers. Jack also says "best native garden in N Z"
What Makes us different
Strives at excellence in design, planting & maintenance. Awarded 6 stars by N Z Gardens Trust along with Hamilton Gardens and Dunedin Botanic Garden. Gordon Collier says "this garden has everything". Have made a lot of mistakes and happy to share them. Generous with cuttings & divisions.
Core Products and Services
Visits, tours, events. 130 carparks, picnics, dog friendly, birthday parties, weddings, photography venue, car club meets, group tours. Questions welcome.