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You are here: Home / Moving Gardens/New Gardens / The Eagle has Landed

The Eagle has Landed

November 9, 2017 By SandRa Timmins 2 Comments

We have done it!

It was a helluva move…three kids, two businesses at peak season and one dog and one feral guinea pig meant cars and vans filled to the brim, towing trailers also filled to max capacity, taking load after load over the Tararuas.  It took a whole week.

Oh my lordy I am so grateful that I can say with full conviction and honesty that we will not be moving again for a really really long time!

So Eketahuna is now home, Newman to be totally precise, which is just a little north of Eketahuna..

Let me take you on a wee tour of our whares’ property….

Where the glamorous cardboard is is where a garden is going to be. Front of the property.

 

 

The front stoop

 

This part gets the most sun, so yeah, here it is in black and white! Side of the house

 

Best climbing tree, ever!

Best climbing tree, ever! And it produces plums.

 

Looking forward to those grapes!

 

Back of the BBQ area

 

The mysterious caged area

The mysterious caged area, it’s going to go but at this stage it’s the perfect setting for our wild guinea pig Vampire

 

Ye olde plum tree

Ye olde plum tree

 

These poor old apple trees possibly were planted before the massive macrocarpas behind them that are now blocking the light

These poor old apple trees possibly were planted before the trees behind them that are now blocking the light

Did I mention the house was built in 1910?  Which is pretty old for New Zealand (Kemp House in Keri Keri, which is the oldest house in New Zealand was completed in 1822).

Rustic glasshouse

Rustic glasshouse in the vegie patch, with quite massive walnut tree overhanging it. That’s going..

 

Vegie patch and seedling holding bay!

Vegie patch and seedling holding bay.

 

Another walnut tree in the vegie patch. Consider this gone. And a fig tree, love figs, but not it's invasive roots in the vegetables domain. Will be relocated...I think!

Another walnut tree in the vegie patch. Consider this gone. And a fig tree, love figs, but not it’s invasive roots in the vegetables domain. Will be relocated…I think!

 

So lots to do, wish there more hours in the day with less distractions (ie. the family!!) and just a little bit less rain and more of those hot days we get treated to now and again!!

 

 

 

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Filed Under: Moving Gardens/New Gardens, SGH updates Tagged With: house built in 1910, moving house, new zealand, Newman Eketahuna, old fruit trees

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Comments

  1. Glen says

    November 13, 2017 at 1:36 am

    Looks amazing! So pleased for you guys. So much potential.

    Reply
  2. becominghealthynz says

    November 15, 2017 at 8:54 am

    Love it!! Can’t wait to come visit next year 😉

    Reply

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