Hills & Plains
Key features: Half-day tour of country gardens; European-inspired classical landscaping, terraced hillsides, formal plantings and impressive floral displays (note: on Saturday’s tour Longfield is replaced by Westgrove).
Italy inspired this grand formal garden, with its statues and fountains, Corinthian columns reminiscent of Tivoli, and extraordinary stone pieces rescued from Christchurch’s Catholic Basilica. Brick walls and hornbeam hedges create garden rooms, featuring old fashioned roses, citrus, lavender and olives, alongside an English orangery.
This garden also features on Vista tour
A unique response to a challenging site, this terraced hillside country garden features beautiful blooms, a pergola-covered ‘lane of roses’, a summerhouse and paths through a woodland filled with camellias and hydrangeas. With expansive open spaces beyond, you’ll enjoy serenity under the poplar trees surrounding a beautiful pond.
This garden also features on the Vista tour
A peaceful and tranquil established garden with abundant fruit trees, vegetable gardens and berry enclosures. Formal plantings create rooms for outdoor living areas and compost and mulch feed the soil. A labour of love and happiness that will leave you feeling inspired.
This garden also features on the Valley Crossings tour
Designed and created by Pat from bare farmland, Westgrove, now a mature home garden and vineyard, is a property that keeps on giving. Changes and additions over the years include stunning cloud pruning and a classical formal courtyard with a beautiful fountain.
This garden also features on the Wai Tata tour
