For this week's photography memes I'm going back to photos taken on a 2004 garden tour of New Zealand.Hortensia House is on New Zealand's South Island near Blenheim. The gardener/owner is a Frenchwoman and artist. Her paintings and ceramics were inspired by the many flowers in her garden and by the French Impressionist Claude Monet. Hydrangeas in great variety, roses, fruit trees, and native plants blend together in this elegant garden.
Hortensia House has beautiful open windows accented with periwinkle blue that look out over intensely planted perennial beds to a graceful stream that runs through the property:
This Japanese bridge is inspired by the one at Monet's Giverny garden in France and leads to a small island:
The island has flower beds close to the gazebo--which echoes the house's architecture. Behind the gazebo are open fields:
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These photos look like post cards, simply beautiful Faye!
ReplyDeleteGorgeous! Out one of our country roads is an odd looking building on stilts in the middle of a pond. It's too fancy to be a hunting shack of some sort but not practical as a living space either. I'll have to take a picture of it sometime and send it to you. I've been musing about it for years!
ReplyDeletepurely magical...
ReplyDeleteA magical place which brings back memories of my trip to the real Giverny in France........ It's wonderful to see creative people who follow their dream ....I'm sure many hours of hard work and planning went into this little corner of paradise which can now be admired by so many others.
ReplyDeleteA lovely post Faye.
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I've always thought of Japanese gardens as being peaceful places. The bridge is graceful and beautiful, but everything about this garden is simply gorgeous.
ReplyDeleteThat is an interesting garden. A lot of photo opportunities I believe. :)
ReplyDeleteFaye, for BOKEH you need a camera with manual settings. If you have that you can do it. Have a great weekend.
How amazing! Yes, I agree these are picture postcard views, Faye, or even painting-like. New Zealand is gorgeous and there are some very keen gardeners there!
ReplyDeleteWhat a gorgeous garden! It really does have everything. A painter's (and photographer's) paradise, I think.
ReplyDeleteFollowing you now :)