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Sunday, September 5, 2010

Nice Whight Flower




Saturday, September 4, 2010

Garden Semple


Garden Sample


Camellia Garden Hammond


Hammond Camellia Garden
There are a wide variety of forms and colours of camellias. From the higher level of the Camellia Garden there are good views over Turtle Lake and the lower levels of the Gardens. After visiting the rhododendron garden you can walk up to the Camellia Garden which is sited behind the Victorian Greenhouse

Rhododendron Lawn Garden


Rhododendron Lawn
Tree lovers will also visit to view the deciduous trees in the area various Alnus, with their special bark, Cornus, Acer and Magnolia. Flowering rhododendrons are a magnet for visitors to the gardens in the spring. The shade provides a good setting for perennials which add colour after the rhododendrons have shed their petals. They flower well in a very suitable site in the Hamilton Gardens as they are sheltered by a steep bank of pine trees

New Zealand Cultivar Garden



New Zealand Cultivar Garden
A garden for all seasons, it has a variety of points of interest as the seasons change. With New Zealand garden enthusiasts showing increasing interest in native plants the display of New Zealand cultivars in the Fergusson Glade cannot fail to attract many visitors.

Renaissance Garden Italian

The high walls, arched trellises and square beds of Medieval gardens also became a feature. Romulus and Remus, the babies who were suckled by a wolf and became the legendary founders of Rome were a popular subject. Two major sources influenced the development of the Italian Renaissance Garden. Arab garden traditions and ancient Greek and Roman traditions, especially the sculptures which were copied and placed in the gardens.
The central axis in the design became popular. Renaissance studies sought geometric patterns in nature, and symmetry, circles and triangles became a regular pattern in gardens. These forms have been the basis of the design of the garden in Hamilton.

American Garden

Modernist Garden American  
The Modernist style was not just featured in twentieth century American gardens but was used internationally. Modernist garden design became widely used on the US western seaboard and in northern Europe, particularly France, Germany and Scandinavia in the 1930s. The garden created here is in a mid-century West Coast American style. In Modernist design the form could actually grow from an analysis of the site, the architecture and functional requirements.

This means that the design is often centred round swimming pools, barbecues and outdoor eating areas and created to suit the house. The house in this garden is represented by the wall and window. The kidney shape of the pool was very popular in America during the 1940's. Most Modernist gardens are designed for relaxed outdoor living and so they are particularly well suited to the Californian way of life - the climate, culture, and individual wealth found there.

English Garden


Flower Garden is English
The English Flower Garden is designed in what is termed the English Arts and Crafts style (also called or New Georgian or Natural style). That is considered to be the golden age of such gardens although many more were created in that style throughout the twentieth century. They are often designed around a focal point such as a seat or a fountain and have walls or hedges which define sections planted in different types of plants.
Japanese Garden of Contemplation
Visitors to the Zen garden traditionally view it from a pavilion and use their imagination.
Gardens of these types feature islands, trees and rocks in a color scheme of green and Grey rather than colored flowers and blossom.

Turtle


Hamilton’s sister city, Wuxi, involved in developing the garden

Margaret Evans, Major of Hamilton formally opened the garden, on 28 February 1992. On 1 October 1998 a Wuxi delegation presented the Celestial Yuan of Taihu (bronze turtle). The garden was a joint project between the Hamilton City Council, Hamilton's Sister City, Wuxi, the NZ Chinese Association (Waikato Branch) and the New Zealand China Friendship Society (Hamilton Branch). A Chinese Garden Trust was formed in 1986 to raise funds and oversee the development of the Chinese Garden.

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