Brookgreen Park
4.0/5 (2 ratings)-
Photograph © Brookgreen Park
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Photograph © Brookgreen Park
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Photograph © Brookgreen Park
Gardenvisit Editorial
A large country garden developed by Helen and Bryan Airey. There is a palm garden, potager, lake and topiary.
Head Gardener's Comment
Brookgreen Park is a large country garden. The house sits on a knoll near the entrance way and a view of the spreading lawns below. To one side, formal clipped box edged gardens display roses and topiary, while the way ahead leads over a tiled patio to a gazebo underplanted with clivia and New Guinea impatients. Avenue of Melia azedarach leads downwards to small lake crossed by a Monet style bridge. Pink waterlillies are a feature here in spring and summer. A further bridge takes you to the maple garden underplanted with hostas. Across the other side of the lake there is a formal fountain and tiled rill fed by water from a stream at the rear of the property. The path back to the house leads through a palm garden and to a vegetable potager with small topiary citrus trees.
Opening times - October to mid May. By appointment.
Admission - $10.00 NZ
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Recent Reviews
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11 months ago
Christine & Jim Mullane said
A beautiful crisp morning helped,but it was not really needed as Brookgreen Park lived up to our expectations in every way.
Helen Airey was a knowledgeable and pleasant guide and her passion for the complex was very evident.We spent longer than intended there,so taken were we with what has been achieved.Well worth a visit.(4.0/5) -
12 months ago
Joy Buxton said
Today I visited Brookgreen Park.Despite the drizzly day, I was made very welcome by Helen Airey, who later joined me on a garden tour.The gardens and Lake and lawns are spectacular, and a real oasis for garden lovers. Highly recommended. Joy Buxton
(4.0/5)
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