Old orchards, waterways, formal and informal planting surround a Georgian-style home in this delightful large rural garden surrounded by podocarp forest. Explore native walkways, a rhododendron walk and a traditional walled garden with gardener's cottage and Victorian-inspired glasshouses.
2. Brookgreen Park 15 Goldflats Lane, Coatesville
Brookgreen Park is a large, formal garden in a park setting with a topiary and a Monet-style bridge overlooking water lilies, plus areas of maples and hostas, clivias, a palm garden and potager. With tranquil water features in different parts of the garden, it makes for a relaxing time away from the pressures of city life.
Pinelee country garden is surrounded by majestic pinaster pines, with mature garden plantings of a wide variety of native trees and shrubs. The garden also features a year-round display of rhododendrons - colour through all seasons.
4. A La Fois 31 Coatesville Heights, Coatesville
The owners have used and enhanced the existing land form of 2.4ha once covered in gorse and scrub. Judicious plantings of natives and exotics have been chosen for their form and foliage to create pleasing and interesting vistas.
A garden formed around a 2ha lake with waterlilies and exotic waterfowl. Unusual and ornamental borders around the house, with rock gardens, and a bog garden. A boardwalk gives a closer encounter with nature.
