At this time we’re visiting with Jill Hammond.
I very a lot take pleasure in getting your each day pictures of gardens from world wide, most of which appear to be within the Northern Hemisphere. I assumed I might share some pictures of my backyard in New Zealand.
My husband and I’ve lived on 7.5 hectares (18.5 acres) in rural Hawkes Bay, New Zealand, for 28 years. We moved our 100-year-old villa onto our naked piece of land, and I set about growing our backyard from scratch. There was not one single tree or plant current, and at first I used to be a wee bit overwhelmed with begin. Simply getting caught in was the reply, and now now we have a backyard which is steadily maturing. I really like having the ability to underplant among the areas the place I now have some shade, permitting me to develop hostas, hydrangeas, rhododendrons, and different shade-loving crops, which for therefore lengthy I’ve solely been capable of see in different individuals’s gardens.
A lot of my crops have come from my mom’s backyard as cuttings and divisions. Like so many gardeners, I really like this sharing of crops and information, after which passing them on to different beautiful recipients.
We’ve got delicate winters with occasional frosts, delicate springs and autumns, and scorching, dry summers with frequent droughts. I water crops within the first season to get them going, however then allow them to fend for themselves following that, so I do plant to the situations and don’t mollycoddle. Having stated that, I do water my vegetable potager backyard.
The final two years now we have had unseasonally moist summers, and this has led to the partial demise of a few of my Buxus (boxwood) hedging (which has been a big characteristic of my backyard) attributable to boxwood blight. I’ve needed to take away some areas of this, as I merely don’t wish to should spray repeatedly to handle it. This 12 months we’re again to El Niño climate patterns, and so I’m hopeful that the drier summer season will enable my remaining Buxus hedging to get better and never look too patchy.
This 12 months a number of elements of New Zealand suffered cyclones, involving large flooding occasions, and many individuals misplaced properties, gardens, and companies reminiscent of farms and orchards. We depend ourselves extremely grateful to not have misplaced our backyard and residential. As we’re all studying to deal with local weather change and the disruptive climate patterns we’re seeing everywhere in the world, I urge all fellow gardeners on the market to take a while off from pulling weeds and mulching gardens, to take some pictures of your backyard so that you’ve these great reminiscences to look again on, ought to something untoward occur.
Timber on the property embody a maturing purple horse chestnut (Aesculus × carnea, Zones 5–8), Cornus controversa ‘Variagata’ (Zones 5–8), and a weeping beech (Fagus sylvatica ‘Pendula’, Zones 4–8).
One of many many Buxus hedges, this one near the pool space
Blended perennial/shrub border with Magnolia macrophylla (Zones 5–8) within the background and corkscrew topiaries, which I’ve had enjoyable making through the years
The burgundy spires on this blended border are Berberis ‘Helmond Pillar’ (Zones 4–8).
On this financial institution backyard wanting onto the home, perennials are a significant characteristic in spring and summer season.
Two espaliered double-grafted pear bushes develop over the arbor. ‘Beurre Bosc’, ‘Taylor Gold’, and ‘Doyenne du Comice’ are very productive.
Extra of the potager: rosemary, borage, chives, and a mandarin orange tree within the background
A blue spruce tree (Picea pungens, Zones 1–7)
Jill shared so many nice pictures of her backyard that we’ll be again tomorrow to see extra!
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