About The Gardens
Every year Kumeu has a Best Garden competition which is supported by LJ Hooker Kumeu, Westpac and Weekend Gardener Magazine. Some of the best regions gardens are entered into the competition which allows the organizers the very best choice of gardens to procure for the Kumeu Art in the Garden Festival.
This year the gardens include:
Dawn
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Solace Meadow My solace, my refuge, my joy.. Built from nothing, beginning eighteen years ago from a weedy field, my garden has been a source continual challenge and wonderment. Not manicured orderliness, but going with the flow of contour and seasons, weeds constanly renewing, it has grown and developed despite summer drought and winterful overwatering. My garden knows my blood and bone, sweat and tears, camera and pencil and paintbrush. It has swallowed a great deal of my time and money also, with a highly satisfactory return to me, praise God. It has exercised my mind, body and imagination, making my life sweeter and sleep deep. Full of memories and loving gifts, from Grandmothers, mothers, aunts, sisters and friends gardens, humble and gorgeous violets, roses, geraniums, nasturtiums and foerget-me-nots, reminders of other places and times. Beset with sunshine, moon and starshine, bees and birdsong early and late, it blesses me. Now with my best friend Terry, there will be sculptures to add to the garden! You are so welcome! Dawn |
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John Catt
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Brookvale An elevated country estate, Brookvale is a delightful garden that wraps around water features and featured lawn with rambling plantings that encourage the vistor to embark on a journey through pockets and patios with individual themes and outlooks. Developed over the last 25 years by the current owner, John Catt, who has taken the history of the plantings and enhanced them with a twist of individual flare, colour and contrast. I love the variety and the feeling that this tranquil English-style country garden now offers.. John says. Curved stone walls and pathways lend an informal; touch, while some of the art features add a little spark! Brookvale House B&B guests enjoy the peaceful atmosphere in the garden, play a game of croquet on the lawns or just laze under the shade of the trees. Take in the vibrant bursts of colour and the sub-tropical touches and textures as you wander around. |
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Peter and Jocelyn Coyle
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Totara Waters We are proud to welcome Totara Waters to this years Kumeu Art In The Garden Festival. Totara Gardens is a 2 acre subtropical garden set on the upper Waitemata Harbour with expansive grassland leading to the waters edge and clusters of palms, ferns and bromeliads. Development of the garden began in 1999 by Peter and Jocelyn Coyle, including an extensive planting program of rare and unusual plants which have created a breathtaking symphony of colours and textures. "Our aim was to create an interesting and unusual Sub-tropical garden using varieties of plants not often seen in most gardens." Jocelyn & Peter Coyle. Totara Waters recently received the honor of being one of New Zealands "Garden of National Significance". Totara Waters is an idyllic place for you to enjoy and be inspired, the garden is often used by visitors as a basis for designing their own gardens. Totara Waters has a large variety of Bromeliads and other subtropical plants for sale and expert knowledge on hand. |
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Willie Poynter On Left
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Ashcombe Gardens The winner of Kumeus Best garden 2010, Ashcombe, is an expansive free-flowing garden that enjoys long meadows and shaded glades with scented walks, rose stands and water features which provides a beautiful backdrop of water and willows. A mixture of mature ambers and large sculptures provides an idyllic environment with changing shadows, pockets of colour and delicious perfume. We love to share our passion for this space that delivers so much pleasure to visitors that feel they can just relax and sit and be a part of the scene.. says Willie Pointer. It is a testimony to the owners Rick and Willie Pointer that the gardens welcome you and surround you with enough space for people to be themselves and enjoy each space as an extension of themselves. Beautiful and blissful are just some of the words used to describe this landscape.. |
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Sat 29th & Sun 30th October 2011 10 am to 4pm
Tickets to this event are limited due to parking and road control and we strongly urge you to book early to avoid disappointment.
View on www.youtube.com (keyword- mrljhooker) or click on the links below:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-GVVIwXRfY