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Anna
Gone to seed
Hamilton, New Zealand
Our old garden19 Oct '06 9:41 am
This is a bit of a test for me, to see if I can figure out how to add photos to a post. Fingers crossed this works. 
My current garden is more than a bit pitiful being so new and the fact that I'm incredibly lazy. 
So I thought I'd drag out some photos of our old place. We sold it just over 3 years ago and in that time it's been sold again twice more.
I think the house has decided it doesn't want anyone else living there but us, so it's systymatically 'weeding' out the newbies. 
We lived there approx 12 years. It was a bare block when we bought it, bordering on NZ native bush. The bush was a little scruffy but we liked it.
The section of almost one and a half acres, in rural Ngaruawahia, was on top of a hill overlooking the Waipa River.
We had to sell due to distance from hubby's work and schooling. But I still miss the place.
Now the photos are a bit grotty, due to the fact that our old digital camera was a cheap and nasty one and the pictures often appear rather grainy, for which I apologise.
So here goes...
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Our old courtyard, fencing not yet finished. In the background the Ngaruawahia forest way in the distance. Closer you'll see some Blackwoods growing.
The rose was 'Chianti' which I loved and the possums didn't seem to notice, thank goodness.
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Anna
Gone to seed
Hamilton, New Zealand
19 Oct '06 9:47 am
Well, that seems to have worked.
Not quite sure how you get more than one photo per post, so bear with me. I'll do this one at a time til someone kindly points me in the right direction.
This is a little bit scary.
Next...
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Here we can see a glimpse of garden with lavendars, white flowers that have totally gone right out of my head (Ack!) and some lovely 'buttercup'. Oops!
I have no idea what the 'dead looking thing' is sitting on the table.
Ignore it!
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Anna
Gone to seed
Hamilton, New Zealand
19 Oct '06 9:56 am
Some random trees!
(I think I've worked out how to add more than one photo, but they aren't appearing in the order I uploaded them. I'll figure this out eventually. )
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Anna
Gone to seed
Hamilton, New Zealand
19 Oct '06 10:13 am
They have loaded correctly but when I previewed they didn't. I waffle... don't mind me.
But wait, there's more (trees that is)!....
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This is in a seperate garden to the previous trees. You can just glimpse the house from here, to the right.
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'Gently rolling'... and you keep on rolling if you lose your footing...
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Our scruffy native bush. We had lots of kanuka and some 'lovely' *sarcasm* gorse. But it brought the birds in so no complaints.
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Anna
Gone to seed
Hamilton, New Zealand
19 Oct '06 10:22 am
Are you sick of this yet?
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Plants!
(Sorry about the sunlight which is ruining the shot!)
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The front of the house to the right of the garage!
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Side of the house where the deck is that the views were seen from earlier! (Told you I waffle!)
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Anna
Gone to seed
Hamilton, New Zealand
19 Oct '06 10:32 am
Shut up Anna! For *insert deity of your choice's name here!* 's sake, shut up already!
Nearly finished... I hope...
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The 'treeless' hut and a blurry dog (Ziggy!).
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At the back of the house, beyond the courtyard, towards the road side with the Ngaruawahia forest in the background!
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Looking 'down' the drive, towards the neighbours...
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Um... back of house, back of garage actually
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Anna
Gone to seed
Hamilton, New Zealand
19 Oct '06 10:37 am
Finished!
*passes out*
Not overly 'flower heavy' these shots, you wouldn't know it but the driveway which we had planted with silver birches had quite a lot of underplanting but I don't have any decent piccies of it.
I had a few hybrid musk roses struggling and pansies, violas etc, etc...
Also missing is a shot of the 'water tank' where I had a 'Monsieur Tillier' and a 'Penelope' which the possums hadn't found and were doing quite well (along with the ivy I was training up the water tank. Big mistake!!!!! Never, ever grow ivy! It takes over! *understatement*)
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Liza
gardening consultant
Waterloo, Belgium
A lovely "Country House"20 Oct '06 2:20 am
Anna, this sort of a house is called by some people as "their country house", with a kind of tenderness and sweetness, and longing to go back there the sooner possible.... Some people living in appartments in big , heavily populated cities, consider such "country houses" as a part of Paradise, which they are! Beautiful!
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Faith S
Perpetually learning gardener
Alabama, USA
Breathtaking Views20 Oct '06 7:40 am
Dear Anna,
How beautiful your views were in the old house. I can see why you hated to leave it. I also really enjoyed your dialog. Reminded me of Moosey. Must be a New Zealand thing.
Thanks for giving us a view of paradise.
Faith
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) You say that they're not overly flower heavy, but trees have their own beauty, and in the autumn when they went red and gold, I bet it was just glorious!