Monday, October 29, 2012

Garden Festival time…

It’s that time of year again… time to visit some local gardens. I post about this festival every year, but I enjoy it so much! If gardening isn’t really your thing, you might want to skip this post, there is a lot of photo’s. The gardens in the following photo’s are all from the New Plymouth area(North Taranaki). Mum and I had the most delightful day, even the weather behaved itself…:O)

Beautiful peonies…

paeonies

Roses…

 

 

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Fences…

fences

This is what I call a raised garden…

raised gardens

Trees…

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Water…

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A balcony overlooking the river…

PicMonkey Collage

And these photo’s are for Nicky… it’s got to be the cleanest pig house I’ve ever seen, complete with hanging basket…

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And this ones for Nicky too… wouldn’t Squirtle just love this…

turtles

That’s it for this post, Nicky and I are going to look at some more gardens tomorrow…

Blessings

Michelle

9 comments:

Kelli Fannin Quilts said...

This post makes me want to run out and plant things. Although I am FAR from having a green thumb, it makes me want to try harder. ;) That is an impressive pig house. :) Thanks for sharing the gorgeous photos.

Leeanne said...

Thank you for sharing! I always enjoyed the Rodo festival when I lived there, there are some stunning gardens, many hours of work.....much like a quilt!

Wendy said...

Gorgeous post, all the gardens look beautiful. It must be very inspiring to visit them all.

Raewyn said...

Beautiful photos Michelle - it seems like you had an inspiring time, and had great weather for it too. Love the pig sty!!

Michelle said...

Photos are beautiful Michelle, ran into your Mum on Friday afternoon she said she had a great day!
Michelle.

Michelle said...

Oh almost forgot-did you not just love the house where the turtle was!!!!! (it's on my wish list!!)
Michelle.

Bev C said...

Hello Michelle,

Stunning photo's - especially love the water ones. Glad you had a lovely day out with your Mum.

Happy gardening.
Bev.xoxo

Julye said...

beautiful flowers !!

Nicky said...

Absolutely beautiful! Got to love that pig sty......