We’re again in New Zealand immediately to see extra of Jill Hammond’s lovely backyard. She has spent the final 28 years reworking a 7.5-hectare (18.5-acre) piece of land in rural Hawkes Bay, New Zealand. When she and her husband moved in, it was a very naked piece of land, so she’s created this whole backyard from nothing.
The financial institution backyard is on a slope, which permits the vegetation within the again to point out off over these planted decrease on the slope. There are melia bushes (Melia azedarach, Zones 7–10) alongside the highest, and the decrease hedge is star jasmine (Trachelospermum jasminoides, Zones 8–10).
‘Graham Thomas’ rose, birches (Betula utilis var. jacquemontii, Zones 5–8), and Pittosporum sheered into golf balls within the entrance
I really like letting my elephant garlic (Allium ampeloprasum var. ampeloprasum, Zones 3–9) go to seed—and so do the bees!
Crataegus laevigata ‘Paul’s Scarlet’ (Zones 4–8) and Bowles’s mauve wall flowers (Erysimum ‘Bowles’s Mauve’, Zones 6–9), with a hedge of ‘Six Hill’s Large’ catmint (Nepeta ‘Six Hill’s Large’, Zone 3 – 8) to the precise
View right down to the decrease degree, via ‘Blanc Double de Coubert’ rose hedges
My husband constructed our daughters a playhouse years in the past. It stays a well-loved characteristic. It’s surrounded by Carex testacea (Zones 6–8) and Stachys byzantina (Zones 4–9). To the precise you’ll be able to see a ‘Grosso’ lavender (Lavandula × intermedia ‘Grosso’, Zones 6–10) hedge.
The backyard is on many ranges, so steps are a typical characteristic.
Right here is one other combined mattress, with burgundy lorapetalum (Loropetalum chinense, Zones 7–10) on the precise. A weeping elm (Ulmus glabra ‘Camperdownii’ Zones 5–7) remains to be to return into leaf on the highest degree.
View of the backyard from the higher degree, trying via to the potager backyard
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