Welton House

Welton House A 150 year old New Zealand Garden of National Significance, 5 minutes from Blenheim open for visits

31/05/2026

The sun crept through the dark clouds this afternoon and gave me a moment to capture the last of the yellow before 2 days of rain.

The munching mob of sheep have departed for greener pastures, and our powerful vineyard mulching mower has dealt to the ...
24/05/2026

The munching mob of sheep have departed for greener pastures, and our powerful vineyard mulching mower has dealt to the rather large tufts of straw they were never going to eat.

A final pass with the small Massey Ferguson breaks everything down nicely over winter, allowing the old pasture grasses and perennials to leap evenly back into life come spring.

The green strips are our mown paths, which we maintain every now and again through winter. This avoids the familiar and frustrating springtime puzzle of remembering exactly where all those grassy paths belong - another reminder that human memory is far less reliable than we would like. We do this in all our long grass areas now.

The autumn flowering South African Blood Lily, Scadoxus multiflorus subspecies. katherinae, has been giving us weeks of ...
23/02/2026

The autumn flowering South African Blood Lily, Scadoxus multiflorus subspecies. katherinae, has been giving us weeks of delight in our secret garden. Her sister, spring flowering Scadoxus punicea, illuminates this garden earlier in the year and leaves a trail of orange yellow berries to entertain us in the winter. With its carpet of Adiantum, backdrop of Taro and epiphytic planting in the Kowhai above this wee corner of the garden is definitely one of Ross’s and my favourite spots to visit.

The Big Border is at its finest in late summer and was looking particularly pleasing at dawn yesterday morning. The lar...
13/02/2026

The Big Border is at its finest in late summer and was looking particularly pleasing at dawn yesterday morning. The large lime green plant, Persicaria orientalis - an annual - with the irresistible common name of ‘Kiss Me Over the Garden Gate’ was an impulsive spring addition from Kate Aston at Seaflowers Nursery and has not yet fully shown us her highly anticipated splendours of weeping showers of red pink.

A glorious morning!
07/12/2025

A glorious morning!

Address

10 Staces Road
Grovetown
7202

Opening Hours

Monday 9am - 5pm
Tuesday 9am - 5pm
Wednesday 9am - 5pm
Thursday 9am - 5pm
Friday 9am - 5pm
Saturday 9am - 5pm
Sunday 9am - 5pm

Telephone

021 323 358

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