our gardens
the previous owners had a n.z native nursery here so we have extensive native plantings all around the property and  have begun perennial gardens in a paddock next to the house.
below are some  photos of our n.z native gardens and also a pond we put in there.
  we also enjoy perennial gardening and as mentioned earlier we began a perennial garden in the paddock next to the house.below are some pics of it when we first made and two of it since we have begun to plant it out.
the first step was to take out all the stock fences dividing it then marking the garden outline with a spray can then spraying with herbicide to kill all the weeds then leaving for a season.
we then let all the weeds come back again then resprayed and mulched heavily with pea straw and begun to plant.we used smooth river rocks for the edging as they were easy to come by in the riverbeds close to us.                  may 1999                           may 1999                   october 2000                    october 2000                   january 2001                    january 2001                        april 2001                                 april 2001 The above four pictures are of our latest additions to our gardens done in January 2002 and planted out in April 2002
Again we sprayed with weed killer the portion to be rotary hoed then again used rocks as a border.