How many kinds of sweet flowers grow
In an English country garden?
I'll tell you now of some that I know
And those I miss you'll surely pardon
Saturday and Sunday 25/26 January arrives and we’re all set and ready to go on the 2014 Waikanae Super Garden Trail, a Waikanae Lions project supporting Mary Potter Hospice and the Royal New Zealand Foundation of the Blind. All in all, there are 12 homes on the list of selected gardens in the town of Waikanae.
I am not much of a fundi when it comes to the various plants in any garden, so I trust I will be excused for not being able to identify any of the blooms in these photos.
Strolling in one of the larger gardens.
This is not plastic… a genuine specimen, I promise.
Cute little green monster with peculiar feet…
Clayton stands in a bamboo plantation growing in one of the larger gardens.
A perfectly laid-out petanque (boule) field of varied small pebbles. Very nice. It is part of a 7-acre informal garden of streams, specimen trees in a park-style setting, with boardwalks, ponds and native bush settings in Puriri Road.
Reflections in a pond…
Some parts of some gardens have that “wow” factor, even for a garden philistine like me…
Resting up the tired dogs in a cool nook …
A stream running through the Puriri Road garden. Most picturesque…
An oriental influence in one of the more formal gardens…
There wasn’t even a hint of a breeze, and thus the waters were mirror-like.
Crossing the ponds on boardwalks…
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