Waikanae Lions Super Garden Trail

If you would like to experience some of Waikanae’s most stunning gardens put the 28th and 29th January 2012 in your calendar now as the Waikanae Lions Super Garden Trail is on again and will be just as enjoyable as last year.

Fourteen stunning gardens in Waikanae will be on display in this summer’s Waikanae Lions Super Garden Trail that is being held within Waikanae on the weekend following Wellington Anniversary Day to avoid the congestion of holiday traffic.

This summer’s Garden Trail provides a rare opportunity to view exceptional gardens ranging from attractive cottage gardens to enchanting compact town to spacious lifestyle retreats with expansive lawns and special features.

One of the really outstanding gardens in this year's Trail is that of Jan and David Goldsack who began landscaping the property long before the very attractive French styled house was built so much of the garden is now well established. It is a garden of different textures with formal and styled hedging. The Trail also included Waikanae's best known garden, "Leybourne", with its sweeping lawns and magnificent canopy of established trees.

The annual Waikanae Lions Super Garden Trail has been a very popular event for garden lovers throughout the lower North Island and has raised in excess of $400,000 for many charities. This year the funds raised will be donated to the Life flight Trust, Helicopter Services.

Morning and afternoon teas and light lunches will also be available at 42 Ngarara Road to provide a restful garden experience with the proceeds going to The Cancer Society. By taking part in the “discover the plants” and “lucky ticket” competitions, visitors could win one of ten prizes for $50 plant selections or six $100 gardening gift cards or two landscape design packages.

Tickets for the Garden Trail and a brochure showing the location of each garden are available from Kapiti Garden Centres or from the individual gardens on the weekend of the Garden Trail.

The gardens will be open from 10.00am until 5.00pm each day and for only $15.00 per person per day, visitors can enjoy a wonderful day out visiting these stunning Waikanae gardens.

The following gardens are in the Trail:
4a, 19 Kowhai Grove;
2a, 6b, 8, 21 Horopito Street;
42 Ngarara Rd;
364 Te Moana Rd;
70 Te Moana Rd;
6 Lavinia Grove;
16 Alexander Street;
174 Ngarara Rd;
2 seddon St;
43 Tui Cres.

If you would like further information on the Waikanae Lions Super Garden Trail, please contact John Todd on Tel 04 2936607 or email popone@xtra.co.nz.

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