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Dixie
garden enthusiast
Waikato-New Zealand
In a Bus load of Ladies14 Nov '06 5:36 pm
Last weekend found me at Waiheke island in the Auckland harbour in a bus load of 23 fifty- plus ladies.
The first photo is through the bus window ,looking down the road towards the sea.
Dixie
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Dixie
garden enthusiast
Waikato-New Zealand
Towards the house.14 Nov '06 5:40 pm
This is the house we visited .The owners have planted thousands of native trees ,shrubs and flaxes.It has its own helicopter pad.
Dixie.
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Dixie
garden enthusiast
Waikato-New Zealand
The house14 Nov '06 5:44 pm
And the house with the planting on the hill behind ( I have a more humble taste ,myself ! )
Dixie
Waiheke island 005.jpg
The hillside planting will look really good in a few years'time
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Dixie
garden enthusiast
Waikato-New Zealand
The French chef14 Nov '06 5:48 pm
A real French chef creating pancakes .Our genial bus driver waiting for his pancake.
Dixie
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Dixie
garden enthusiast
Waikato-New Zealand
Flipping pancakes14 Nov '06 5:51 pm
ALLEZ OOP !
This is my pancake being flipped .It was then smothered in strawberry jam and fresh NZ cream .YUMMY !
Dixie
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Dixie
garden enthusiast
Waikato-New Zealand
Moosey special14 Nov '06 5:55 pm
Dear Moosey ,Remember wot you wrote about the bus load of ladies with their trendy designer denim jackets ?
Well this is for you - Here they are with their pancakes !
Dixie.
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Anna
Gone to seed
Hamilton, New Zealand
15 Nov '06 11:11 am
Wonderful! A lovely place to visit and you get pancakes too! Heaven. 
As to the house, although it's more than a little out of my league I could see me living there. 
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GardenGnome
Happily Toiling Away
Regina, Saskatchewan
Quite the outing16 Nov '06 8:02 am
Looks like you had yourself a good time.
Christopher
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Dixie
garden enthusiast
Waikato-New Zealand
visiting gardens16 Nov '06 3:19 pm
We visited 15 gardens in two days .Most of them were millionaires places -the gardens had been done like 'paint by numbers' -a large patch of,say, 100 agaves ,then 100 flaxes ,then 100 hebes etc etc -get the picture ? All done by professional landscapers...We were allowed to go and peer through the windows of the super - rich houses . No - definitely not me !I was so glad to also visit some home made gardens ,with profusions of flowers that the creators love ! Archways of roses ! Vegetables ! Tree huts ! I am writing from my daughters computer in the capital city ,Wellington ,so don't have any more pictures until I return home next week .Travelling makes me realise how much I love my own home and garden !.
Dixie.
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Anna
Gone to seed
Hamilton, New Zealand
16 Nov '06 3:27 pm
I cannot for the life of me get excited about 'landscaped' gardens. A garden should evolve from how you feel it should go. Not 100 massed plants of this 'fashionable' plant.
And I don't like these sterile gardens with agaves and grasses and pebbles (I like pebbles as a mulch but not as a 'design feature') and there's no soul to the garden. You certainly can't truly relax in a garden like that.
Give me rambling overplanted fun any day.
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