East Coast & Beyond
Full Day Tour (exciting new format)
Key features: A full-day tour that has been excitingly redesigned to include two new gardens to the previous East Coast tour. Stretching from the town boundary in the Wither Hills to country gardens with sweeping ocean views on the East Coast, explore an urban Japanese water garden and a sculpted landscape with a distinctively unique form. This tour includes three New Zealand Gardens Trust ‘Gardens of National Significance’. A delicious lunch at the Kekerengu Store is provided.
Twenty-three years ago, Moritaki, at the foot of the Wither Hills, was bare clay farmland. Now it’s a tranquil and inspiring green oasis, featuring solely New Zealand native plants and full of vibrant bird life. The design, by Japanese landscaper Hiro Yoshida, is based around a substantial and calming water garden.
With a perfectly framed view stretching across Cloudy Bay, Paripuma has evolved over the last twenty years from a barren windswept beachfront to a large native garden based on formal lines with an emphasis on providing a habitat for wildlife. With a recently added perennial garden to enhance that habitat, Paripuma is a Marlborough Environment Landscape Award winner.
This extraordinary garden is a plant lover’s paradise, featuring rare beauties and clever use of the more commonplace. Unique topiary hedges, oversized wooden steps, platforms and pergolas provide definition, and the kitchen garden and composting area reflect the property’s sustainability ethos.
Winterhome’s ten acres of formal garden feature stunning views over the Marlborough coastline and Pacific ocean. Explore world-class garden design that uses strong lines, intersecting axes, and exceptional mass plantings, and is a memorable testament to the vision of its founders.
