Flaxmere Garden

128 Westenras Road, Hawarden

Timeless and ever changing

New Zealand Gardens Trust Flaxmere logo with five-star rating, featuring a blue label with a white fern design.

Hosts: Penny Zino

Address: 128 Westenras Road, Hawarden

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59 years after it all began, Flaxmere remains inspiring with its appealing vistas and innovative design. The 3-hectare garden features distinct garden areas using different cultivars, connected by a series of ponds with their own personality. Native evergreens contrast with deciduous plantings that change with the seasons, with a focus on trees and shrubs providing interest for spring and autumn colours.

Stone walls and classically inspired timber pergolas entwined with clematis and roses in the swimming pool and rose garden, provide contrast to the gracefully arched bridge which leads your eye to Mt Tekoa. There are new experiences as in the perennial and grasses garden inspired by Piet Oudolf and the whirlpool garden created after a heavy snow fall. A new Dry Garden which will have no summer watering is now one year on and has amazed us all with its resilience and growth..

Eftpos is available.

 

EVENTS

Photographic exhibition: Flaxmere Garden through the seasons and timeline.

Plant sale: Huge range of Penny’s favourite plants for sale.

Books: Available for sale.

Guided talks: With Penny Zino. Meet outside the barn.
Oct 30, Nov 1 & 2 at 10am.
Oct 30: Garden Walk.
Oct 31: Jemima Savage and Lou Boissard will explain the creation of the new dry / gravel garden, one year on, on site. Meet outside the barn 10am. See opposite page for more.
Nov 1: How to plan and create a naturalistic garden.
Nov 2: Planning for seasonal change in a garden.

Suggest everyone brings picnic lunches. Tea and coffee provided.

On-site/off-road parking available
Toilets available on site
Wheelchair accessible
Tea/coffee included in admission
Picnic area (visitors may bring food)
Children’s play area
Tours available
Nursery/plants for sale
Accommodation available
Garden opens at other times
Motorhomes welcome overnight

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