Wai huna
(hidden water)
Half Day Tour
Key features: A half-day tour including urban and rural settings, one of which is new to Garden Marlborough. Under established canopies you will discover a secluded urban sanctuary and diverse botanical abundance; take in open and expansive vistas across the lake to the mountains.
Honouring three remaining hundred-year-old plum trees from an early Springlands’ orchard, Plum Tree Cottage garden has been reimagined, redesigned and rebuilt in the past seven years. Providing a terraced haven of calming green foliage and bordered by a tranquil spring fed creek, this urban garden reveals itself gently as an escape from the busy world.
This twelve-year-old garden was carved out of a large swampland area, creating a lake as a focal point within a park-like setting. A large orchard, vegetable plots and a floral picking garden all hide behind clipped protective hedging. The garden is a little piece of paradise for its hard-working owners.
Filoli is a beautiful, rambling garden full of old-fashioned favourites and treasures not often seen, offering a gorgeous, mirrored pond and sheltered garden paths. Set amongst vineyards, this country garden is the culmination of fifty years of planning and planting by Fiona, a well-known Blenheim florist, and her passionate gardening family.
