Sprawling Plymouth garden can be as majestic as it sounds when it is seen and placed inside every house owner's ordinary home. This new trend in home gardening has become the most sought-after gardening designs in New Zealand.
Jocelyn Clarke said that this Plymouth garden she placed in their house's garden made her little home tidier. For her this kind of design also needs a lot more pruning than any other gardening design types.
"Every year we take a good look at the trees and work out what needs to come off and what needs to come out. We do the pruning in such a way that you wouldn't notice we'd prune the trees; you'd only notice how overgrown things had become if we didn't do it - a bit like housework really," she said.
According to some of the residents who have this Plymouth garden, they need more space in the house which sprawls around 2 hectares of land. They seem to be like a park-like ground with which the plants are surrounding the whole Bell Block.
Although this new sprawling Plymouth garden has made a lot more work than the usual garden types, they are still stunning from the wider view. The couple, Jocelyn and her husband Colin Clarke, established a well-cared garden.
When anyone could get in the garden, they could immediately see a lot of trees with some formal rose garden on the side. They could also see a traditional knot garden and a stunning fleur-de-lis garden where curlicues of well-manicured Buxus sempervirens surround the pale green wedding cake tree or the Cornus controversa 'Variegata.'
She said, "We've put a few rocks in and other bits and pieces, but we like to keep things relatively uncluttered. We like to keep gardens where there are gardens. And it's easier to mow than to weed, so the more area we can mow the better."
"We've been lucky. The various people who have lived here have done some amazing things with this garden so we've followed on the themes. We've replaced some flowers and some beds but left the bones of it as they were."
