Gore. Wyndham. Maple Glen garden. Duck on pond with beds of colourful rhododendrons.
A few miles out of Wyndham is one of the best gardens in New Zealand. Maple Glen garden near Wyndham has been developed over 40 years by the family who owns it Bob and Muriel Davison and family who began the garden in the 1960s. It has massive collections of spring bulbs, perennials, magnolias, dogwoods, rhododendrons and azaleas, exotic trees, maple trees and several lakes. It is a private garden but allows visitors and a small commercial nursery of exotic plants is operated from the garden. It is well worth a detour if you are travelling to Invercargill. It is one of the prizes of Southland province. The garden covers 25 acres or 10 hectares and the annual rainfall is 43 inches or 1,100 mm allowing the European and cool loving plants to thrive. Conifers and other trees were planted for winter interest with an excellent range of spring flowering trees and autumn leaf colouring trees planted for year round colour. Around the ponds and lakes they have planted masses of astilbes, bog primula, daffodils and bluebells. In fact the garden contains over 800 varieties of daffodil. It is a garden to visit in any season.
Gore. Wyndham. Maple Glen garden. Duck on pond with beds of colourful rhododendrons.
A few miles out of Wyndham is one of the best gardens in New Zealand. Maple Glen garden near Wyndham has been developed over 40 years by the family who owns it Bob and Muriel Davison and family who began the garden in the 1960s. It has massive collections of spring bulbs, perennials, magnolias, dogwoods, rhododendrons and azaleas, exotic trees, maple trees and several lakes. It is a private garden but allows visitors and a small commercial nursery of exotic plants is operated from the garden. It is well worth a detour if you are travelling to Invercargill. It is one of the prizes of Southland province. The garden covers 25 acres or 10 hectares and the annual rainfall is 43 inches or 1,100 mm allowing the European and cool loving plants to thrive. Conifers and other trees were planted for winter interest with an excellent range of spring flowering trees and autumn leaf colouring trees planted for year round colour. Around the ponds and lakes they have planted masses of astilbes, bog primula, daffodils and bluebells. In fact the garden contains over 800 varieties of daffodil. It is a garden to visit in any season.