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Liza
gardening consultant
Waterloo, Belgium
Absolutely beautiful!24 Nov '06 9:00 pm
Anna! Beautiful! Just so beautiful! Thank you so much!
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Anna
Gone to seed
Hamilton, New Zealand
27 Nov '06 2:37 pm
Thank you all. 
I had very good intentions of getting the last of the photos up today, but I've been to-ing and fro-ing all weekend and I still have a lot of catching up to do. Perhaps tomorrow.
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Jack Holloway
Passionate Gardener
SEQUOIA FARM Haenertsburg South Africa
Lovely tour, Anna!28 Nov '06 4:43 am
I get quite envious when I see beautifully tended gardens like these. However in South Africa there simply aren't public gardens of this standard. There was in my youth a lovely rose garden in Johannesburg with wonderful formal terraces and ponds, but it has been underfunded for thirty years and I believe has been vandalised of late. Our best gardens are more natural indiginous gardens - what you would call natives. Here natives has a slightly different meaning: it is an old-fashioned and politically incorrect name for the indigenous peoples... I remember huge amusement once in an Interflora florist shop when an order came through from NZ or OZ asking for 'assorted natives in a vase'...
About the plant in pic 008: it is Melianthus major - indigenous to South Africa. (see http://www.plantzafrica.com/plantklm/melianthusmajor.htm ) In my post on Namibia in July I wrote of finding it in the Waterberg, much to my surprise. It is considered rather weed-like here, and I have never seen a really good speciman, but some English writer - I think no less than Penelope Hobhouse - has described it as the most beautiful of all foliage plants... Perhaps African insects like to munch it???
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Anna
Gone to seed
Hamilton, New Zealand
28 Nov '06 1:11 pm
Highly toxic, eh? Well it looks like I won't be getting one for my garden any time soon. 
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Anna
Gone to seed
Hamilton, New Zealand
29 Nov '06 10:11 am
Let's see how many pictures I can upload before Scruffy, currently sleeping on my lap, wakes up.
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My eldest, and someone else's child (No idea who), looking across the pond in the English Garden.
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Just out of the Chinese garden, yet again. (We seem to have a few taken here...)
Left to right: Eldest boy, me, daughter, friend, second son and of course, Kimi the dog.
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In the American garden. Probably my least favourite garden as it's very minimalist. Not much emphasis on plants but rather, structure.
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Still the American garden (obviously!), and Kimi's interested in something...
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Still there... (I don't have any other shots of this garden. Bad Anna! Bad!)
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Although.... this may have come from the American garden... can't remember!
A ceanothus perhaps?
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This is the last of the current batch of photos. I think... this is from the new Indian gardens, and the camera's battery died before we could take any other shots.
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Liza
gardening consultant
Waterloo, Belgium
Your new avatar!29 Nov '06 7:58 pm
Dear Anna, your latest photos are lovely again, but , I think, most of all I adore your new avatar, which is the most beautiful of all avatars in this Forum!!
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Jack Holloway
Passionate Gardener
SEQUOIA FARM Haenertsburg South Africa
Scruffy and tapestery gardens29 Nov '06 9:43 pm
I agree with Liza - Scruffy is a winner! Thanks for the pics and the site reference - it is interesting that one gets plenty of info but few gorgeous pics when one goes onto these home sites - so keep plugging the gap!
Your last photo of the tapestery-like planting in the Indian Garden re-awakens a desire for such a garden in me... but I know from experience one needs to balance on a plank and weed it twice a day to keep it looking at its best: not my kind of nurturing unfortunately!(  ) (There: been wanting to use that emoticon since Eggy first included it!)
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Anna
Gone to seed
Hamilton, New Zealand
30 Nov '06 4:30 pm
Thanks all. And the Scruffster thanks you.
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Dixie
garden enthusiast
Waikato-New Zealand
Waikato River8 Dec '06 9:26 am
The Hamilton gardens are alongside the Waikato river .My pioneering family were involved in early river transport when the first settlers came to this area. GG grandfather came here in 1864 to assemble a river transporter (the Rangiriri)then used his return fare to bring my GG grandmother out from Scotland .(and here I am 142 years later)
While strolling around the Hamilton gardens ,I saw this peaceful scene on the banks of the river.
Dixie
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Anna
Gone to seed
Hamilton, New Zealand
11 Dec '06 11:04 am
Now that does look peaceful.
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