Jill’s New Zealand Garden

Creating a garden from nothing

Today we ’re visiting with Jill Hammond .

I very much enjoy getting your everyday photograph of gardens from around the world , most of which seem to be in the Northern Hemisphere . I thought I would share some photos of my garden in New Zealand .

My married man and I have lived on 7.5 hectare ( 18.5 land ) in rural Hawkes Bay , New Zealand , for 28 year . We moved our 100 - twelvemonth - old Doroteo Arango onto our bare art object of land , and I set about develop our garden from slit . There was not one single tree or plant present , and at first I was a wee bit overwhelmed with how to bulge out . Just getting stuck in was the answer , and now we have a garden whichis gradually maturing . I love being able to underplant some of the area where I now have someshade , allowing me to growhostas , hydrangeas , rhododendrons , and othershade - loving plants , which for so long I have only been able to see in other people ’s gardens .

Many of my plants have arrive from my mother ’s garden ascuttingsanddivisions . Like so many gardener , I love this communion of plants and knowledge , and then passing them on to other endearing recipients .

We have mild winters with occasional frosts , soft spring and autumn , and hot , dry summers with frequentdroughts . I water plants in the first time of year to get them go , but then allow them stand for themselves following that , so I do plant to the conditions and do n’t mollycoddle . Having say that , I do water my vegetable potager garden .

The last two years we have had unseasonally crocked summers , and this has led to the fond dying of some of myBuxus(boxwood)hedging(which has been a gravid feature article of my garden ) due toboxwood blight . I have had to remove some areas of this , as I only do not desire to have to spray on a regular basis to manage it . This twelvemonth we are back to El Niño weather condition patterns , and so I am bright that the dryer summertime will allow my remainingBuxushedging to recover and not look too patchy .

This year several parts of New Zealand suffer cyclone , involving massivefloodingevents , and many people lost homes , garden , and businesses such as farms and woodlet . We enumerate ourselves incredibly thankful not to have lost our garden and menage . As we are all learning to cope with mood change and the disruptive weather condition patterns we are seeing all over the world , I inspire all fellow gardeners out there to take some time off from pulling weeds and mulching garden , to take some photos of your garden so that you have these wonderful memories to look back on , should anything untoward pass .

Treeson the property include a maturing red-faced cavalry chestnut(Aesculus× carnea , Zones 5–8),Cornuscontroversa‘Variagata ’ ( Zones 5–8 ) , and a weeping beech(Fagussylvatica‘Pendula ’ , geographical zone 4–8 ) .

One of the manyBuxushedges , this one secretive to the pool area

motley repeated / bush border withMagnolia macrophylla(Zones 5–8 ) in the background and corkscrewtopiaries , which I have had fun fashioning over the year

The burgundy spires in this mixed border areBerberis‘Helmond Pillar ’ ( Zones 4–8 ) .

In this savings bank garden looking onto the house , perennial are a major characteristic in spring and summer .

Twoespaliereddouble - grafted Pyrus communis trees grow over the arbor . ‘ Beurre Bosc ’ , ‘ Taylor Gold ’ , and ‘ Doyenne du Comice ’ are very productive .

More of the potager : rosemary , borage , chive , and a mandarin orange tree tree in the background

A down in the mouth spruce tree(Piceapungens , zone 1–7 )

Jill shared so many great photos of her garden that we ’ll be back tomorrow to see more !

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