Tree ferns set the local background to this exquisite rose and perennial border at Puketarata
Another strong favourite from the Taranaki Garden Festival was Puketarata. Created by its owners, Ken and Jennifer Horner, over 35 years, it has that wonderful, but usually elusive, Continue reading
Maori sculpture at Te Kainga Marire
After a day of glorious sunshine exploring gardens full of vigorous perennials, brightly coloured roses and blossoming wisteria we arrived first thing the next Continue reading
Stunning mature tree at Retford Park
In the past I have always got bored. One year of a job, one year of study, one year of most things and I am itching to do something new. Gardening, however Continue reading
Spectacular spring tree colour in Mount Wilson
Mount Wilson is described on the Visit NSW website as a ‘heritage garden village’. Situated in the quieter, northerly section of the Blue Mountains, it is the largest of Continue reading
Serene Autumnal Piet Oudolf Plantings at Potters Field Park, London
When I arrived at Heathrow there was no time to waste and I got a train into London that morning to meet up with Lisa Cox, a very talented garden designer. We are both Continue reading
Hidcote in Autumn
It takes a certain kind of person to see beauty in a bedraggled, wet, mostly dead garden on a cold and damp October afternoon. I had already been rained off once and with only a week Continue reading
Sissinghurst Castle library garden
It may be that you have noticed; I’m quite keen on plants. So it was quite a surprise for me that plants weren’t actually the highlight of my recent trip to Sissinghurst. Continue reading
Autumn Colours at Wisley
This morning I arrived at a very, cold, misty, autumnal Wisley for the launch of my Master of Horticulture. It is at moments like this that you feel extremely grateful Continue reading
Sometimes you visit a garden and become quite lost in it. You forget everything in the world, basking in the joy of it. Then you leave and get caught up in traffic and start thinking about what to have for dinner and frankly, move on.
Other times you visit a garden and it just doesn’t leave you. Nothing can distract you from your thoughts of that garden for any length of time and nothing else seems quite as important or significant. You wake the next morning still thinking of the garden. Continue reading
One of the beautiful gardens I see on my walks around my suburb
I am an early riser and most mornings I start my day with a walk. I have my usual hour long circuit through the bush to Balmoral beach, which I somehow never get bored of, but occasionally I do break Continue reading
Janna Schreier Garden Design 