Ayrlies Garden in Auckland New Zealand

What lovely planting! Obviously some very clever gardeners looking after the gardens. Thank you for sharing. Hope your back soon gets better. :o)

Wish you very soon recovery. I do not know if you have any ointments made from rattlesnake poison there, they are very good for injuries like yours.
This garden is beautiful.. One of the most beautiful I have ever seen.

P.S. What is the name of those white flowers on long stems on the second pic?

I would melt my camera lens surrounded by your NZ flora & fauna Dwillis. Fascinating & diverse country. Superb photos.

So sorry to hear about your back injury,Dwylis..so debilitating,and limiting for you..I hope you recover soon.
Thank you for this..a beautiful place,and such colour..I love the way they are mainly in blocks..very eyecatching..take care :o)

Wow! I knew NZ was a beautiful place, but those pictures are really lovely. Made me want to see the country for myself, pity I hate planes. lol :O) Hope your back is soon mended and you are able to get around and about better than you can just now. :O)

Stunning pics, and hope you will soon be well again Dwyllis.

What a lovely place, thanks for sharing these photos :) I hope your back improves soon.

what a beautiful place, hope you back is better soon.
the photos are stunning!

Oh poor you! I had a golden, gorgeous puppies and full of life!

Beautiful photo,s too

So sorry to hear you have been laid up Dwyllis, poor you and with a 'new baby' to look after too! I love the planting in the gardens at Ayrlies, all swathes of one colour so lovely. Do hope you will improve soon, take care now.

Beautiful garden and gorgeous photos Dwyllis . . . wish I'd known about it when I was in Auckland many years ago! Get better soon . . .

Katrina - I think it's iris ensata

Thanks everybody. Puppy snoozing at my feet. Heading off to the city in another hour to have physio with a guy who specialises in back injuries of this kind. This was arranged by the hospital I work for, as was having physio locally but was causing a lot of pain with sciatica down one side. Pain into my hip & knee has been very debilitating, but hoping for an improvement with this new physiotherapist. Supposed to be back at work in two days, but need reassessing by my Dr tomorrow. Ayrlies Garden is stunning, & Auckland being sub-tropical, a lot of exotics do very well in that region.

Katarina ...... We don't have any snakes at all in NZ, but rattlesnake ointment sounds fascinating. I wonder how it works on muscle & damaged nerves? I am guessing it must have some anti-inflammatory naturally-produced things in it.

Hi Dwyllis. IN Slovakia we do not have rattle snakes as well, as you know. But we have snake farms specialising on production of snake venoms for different medical purposes and as antivenin. I am sure you have t as well, although maybe you do not make ointments from it.
It is complex effect, but for sure not anti-inflammatory. We do not use physiotherapist if you have radiating pain. What causes pain is mostly spasm and the best way is if it subsides sponatneously. Rattle snake venom is a strong desensitizer, which causes, that pain and subseguents (painful) spasms are reduced very quickly. However, you have to take strong anti-inflammatory as add-on, what you probably know (e.g. aceclofenac). Not all NSAIDs have comparable anti-inflammatory effect.
This rattle snake venom is used here also on hemorrhoids and arthtralgias. :)))

Andrew@cheers, thank you :)

Sorry to hear of your problems. I hope you're able to have treatment for your injury, and that it will get better soon.
These are lovely photos.

These gardens are gorgeous Dwyllis, thankyou for sharing with us.
Lets hope the physio treatment helps heal your back injury, I can well understand your boredom but you just have to take it easy for a while, don`t want to be incapacitated even longer because you were impatient....