Rathmoy Garden Hunterville NZ
By dwyllis
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Two years ago my OH & I spent a day visiting private gardens open to the public one weekend in November in the Rangitikei district where we live. We had a wonderful day driving around the countryside discovering places we had never been to before. Several large gardens attached to farms were on display, as well as smaller gardens attached to old family villas in rural areas. One large garden had a brass band playing in the garden & a stall selling beautiful handcrafted elaborate birdhouses in the shape of churches & three storey Victorian mansions. Another of the gardens, attached to a vineyard, was selling their wine as well as a great variety of hanging baskets beautifully planted ….. I bought one of those. The photos below show one of the larger gardens attached to a farm, & set out around a man made lake, where there is cottage decorated with beautiful antiques ….. Not cheap to stay there, but it sits on the edge of the lake & the view is very tranquil. The garden is called Rathmoy & it is situated in high hill country a few kms from the small rural town of Hunterville. The highway between the city of Palmerston North & the lovely volcanic city of Taupo, cuts right through the middle of Hunterville, as it heads towards the bigger township of Taihape & then onto the bleak Dessert Road to Lake Taupo …..passing a snow-capped volcano along the way.
17 Oct, 2012
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Added to Favourities. Thank you Dwyllis. Hope you are improving healthwise now.
17 Oct, 2012
Glad you enjoyed it Katarina. It is a very lovely garden & very large, with lots of interesting plants. I came away with lots of ideas in my head for my own more modest garden. We have a lot of big private gardens open to the public from time to time in the districts of Rangitikei & Manawatu over spring & summer. There is a beautiful one which I have never visited in a place called Rongatea, less than an hour drive from us. I am really hoping to get over that way this summer.
17 Oct, 2012
Hello Diane. I am improving with physio, exercises & anti-inflammatories. My Dr has given me an additional 2 weeks off until the 24th, but I would really like to return to work on Monday, which is Labour Day here. Thank you for your concern.
17 Oct, 2012
This is wonderful,Dwylis..what a display,and your photo's have captured it all so well..thank you..I'm glad you are improving,but maybe you should do what the Dr suggests..don't knock yourself back...just recover fully..:o)
17 Oct, 2012
Thanks Bloomer. I cannot take the credit for these lovely photos .....my photos have all been transferred to disc, as they slow my computer right down. I literally took hundreds of photos over that weekend, as all the gardens were amazing & just so much to see in each garden. I will have to get my OH to load them all back onto my main computer & will then be able to do blogs on the other gardens as well.
17 Oct, 2012
Those roses over the archways are gorgeous, I bet the perfume is divine as you walk amongst them, the whole garden looks really lovely, thanks Dwyllis, take care now and listen to the doc....
17 Oct, 2012
Charmimg garden in every way.
26 Oct, 2012
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Birdhouses in the shape of church? Foxes have holes, birds of the air have their nests, but the son of man has nowhere to lay his head. should I say ?:))
Lovely blog, enjoyed it a lot, I thik I will return to these photos again and again. Thank you.
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