Stablehouse Design

Winter Wanders

The trees have lifted their skirts, bared their branches and shivered through June’s first southerly. The pool has pulled up a blanket of brown leaves and the skeletons of hydrangea blooms rattle when they collide. Winter has next to no humour and displays faint talent for colour, but the green fingered still find great enjoyment and reward in a season that reveals the garden’s ribs, its spine, its structure. Visitors still arrive, eager to examine architectural lines, plant placement, garden ‘rooms’, the play of light, the frames of shadow. You’re very welcome to join them. Bring your curiosity to Stablehouse or the Red Sheds Garden, both on Morris Road, both open by appointment. Simply give Sarah a call (021511223) and together you can make a time to take a winter wander through one or both gardens, each judged to be of national significance by the NZ Gardens Trust.

And don’t forget, no never forget…Stablehouse Nursery is open every Thursday and right now is the perfect time to dig a hole and fill it with Spring’s promise of life, blossom, fruit and flower. Stablehouse Nursery, first driveway on the left after turning onto Morris Road, Te Ore Ore, Masterton. Open Thursdays 10-3ish. Have a wonderful winters day.

Lucerne baleage now ready!

If you've got a goat or two, a cow or three, sheep, horses, buffalo, zebras...then they're in luck because we have top shelf feed for them, Lucerne mini-bales just cut & stacked and now ready and waiting at Stablehouse Nursery just five minutes outside Masterton. Lucerne is a high fibre feed that contains more protein, digestible energy and calcium than grass hay. Take one or take 20 just don't take too long as supply of Lucerne in the Wairarapa is sparse. $35 per bale. Ring/txt Sarah at Stablehouse 021511223.

SALE TIME AT STABLEHOUSE NURSERY!

Not just the perfect plant at the perfect price, but the perfect time of year to plant it! Yes it’s the Stablehouse Nursery plant sale. Crown your King’s Birthday weekend with a royal autumn walkabout up and down aisles filled with new stock and anemic prices. A great range of hydrangeas, magnificent specimen trees, more buxus than you can shake a spade at, Angel Wings, lavender, bay trees, irises a plenty…open 10am to 3, King’s Birthday Monday at Stablehouse Nursery, first driveway on the left after turning onto Morris Road, Masterton. Eftpos available, cash and gold bullion accepted.

Spooky...

Can’t say we’re the town's greatest cheerleaders when it comes to the great corkscrew in the sky above Masterton’s roundabout, but this morning under a damp duvet of fog, it had an almost ethereal feel, looking rather like a giant unworldly probe sent from the Planet Kronk to take a core sample of the Wairarapa to see if it was worth beaming up and nicking. And of course it is, so don't say you haven't been warned.

Stablehouse Nursery. Open Thursdays.

Hard blue skies, copper trees, burnt orange, saffron, the dry papery rattle of spent leaves…and Thursdays! Perfect. That’s when the Stablehouse Nursery is open for great trees and good chat. It’s a wonderful time to plant, the ground is soft and the stock of trees, shrubs, buxus, perennials, citrus, grasses, lilies…has never been better, and if we haven't got it now, we'll get it!
Come wander. Stablehouse Nursery, first driveway on your left after turning onto Morris Road, a hop, skip and a short stumble outside Masterton. 10-3ish Thursdays, or give Sarah a bell to organize another day and time. Ph 021511223.

‘And God made dumplings, and he saw they were pretty good, “YUM” he declared.

Out they go and in they come...

The Angel Wings are flying but more have landed. Senecio candicans for the purist... masses of soft, ghostly silver leaves forever being admired and sought after by many visitors to the garden. $20 each. Pop in on Thursdays when the nursery is open or call Sarah to make another time to suit. Ph 021511223.

The Glory of Autumn

It’s all very Van Gogh. Great slabs of yellow, dabs of ochre, eruptions of red, it’s easily our favourite season, when the garden slips on its most vivid and florid wardrobe before bravely dropping it to the ground and waiting completely naked for winter’s chilly embrace.
It’s a wonderful time to take a wander through Stablehouse Garden and you’re very welcome to do that…on your own, with a friend, with many friends, with a club or a tour group, just give Sarah a bell on 021511223 and she’ll make a time and day to suit.
Stablehouse Garden. A New Zealand Gardens Trust Garden of National Significance. 39 Morris Road, Te Ore Ore, just minutes outside Masterton. Entry $20 each.

The Angels have landed.

Angel Wings Senecio. Let those without sin cast the first bid. Actually, no, forget that, no point in appealing to such a small group, so anyone, yes anyone interested in these heavenly perennials take flight to the nursery on Thursdays or give Sarah a bell if you’d like to pop in another time.
A native of Argentina, they produce masses of soft ghostly leaves that look like…well, angel’s wings. Anyone who’s had a near death experience can vouch for that and no doubt many of you have if you’ve filled your car up with petrol lately. It’s a rather uncommon specimen so any opportunity to pounce on them is usual taken with great lashings of enthusiasm so don’t hang about. They’re $20 each.
As mentioned the nursery is open every Thursday, Sarah will be about dispensing much gardenny chat and advice. It’s planting time, the soil is soft making for easy digging and the available range of trees, shrubs, buxus, hydrangeas, fruit trees, grasses, citrus, ivy, climbers…makes for a wonderful wander.
Stablehouse Nursery. First driveway on the left after turning onto Morris Road just a handful of minutes outside Masterton. Thursdays 10-3ish.