Opposite Clockwise from top left

Albie stringer points out a favourite grass in his North Otago garden; The lower garden is planted with an array of trees and flowering shrubs; The garden’s focal point is the pond; roses on an arch – the dark red on the right is ‘sugar Plum’; Albie has tall bearded irises in almost every available colour; Clematis do well in the stringer garden. Cutting-grown, this is probably ‘Multi Blue’; ‘Point Defiance’ is a later-flowering rhododendron; Meg takes a breather by an azalea patch; Albie’s collection of tree paeonies is stunning – this sumptuous double may be ‘Jin Ge’.