Stablehouse Design

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Keep calm and plant more flowers.

Vibrant signs of summer coming, delicate textures, some dainty others unabashed floosies, a disco of colour, a bed of mood enhancing sirens…hydrangeas, peonies, hellebores, roses, magnolias, iris, dahlias…get ready, get planting, get yourself to Stablehouse Nursery. Open every Thursday at 21a Morris Road, Te Ore Ore, Masterton, the first driveway on your left after turning onto Morris.
Come wander and chat flowers, trees, shrubs, hedges, citrus, grasses, ivies…with Sarah from 10-3ish.

Monday’s gardener is fair of face, Tuesday’s gardener is full of grace, Wednesday’s gardener is full of woe, Thursday’s gardener knows where to go…

Stablehouse Nursery. Open every Thursday 10-3ish - the first driveway on your left after turning onto Morris Rd in
Te Ore Ore, Masterton. A wondrous world of wonderful trees, shrubs, perennials, grasses, hydrangeas, citrus, ivies, buxus, hedge plants and gardening chat aplenty. Stablehouse Nursery, if we haven’t got it – we’ll find it. See you Thursday, or next Thursday, or the Thursday after that…

Pyrus, the blushing bride.

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The Wisdom of the Hedge

They are the living architecture of living spaces. A dynamic and evolving boundary that breathes life into a landscape. Goodness me…that all sounds very Gardens Illustrated, doesn’t it? Truth is, we simply love hedges - towering, living walls of gorgeousness. They build the many ‘rooms’ in our own garden, creating expectation and even a tad of mystery as you drift from one garden gathering to another.

Enouncing a favourite hedge would be to create family friction so a palette of the preferred is easier to talk about and in both Stablehouse and Red Sheds Gardens this incudes stalwarts Beech, Bay and Michelia. There are others of course that we recommend - Camelia, Hornbeam, Acer, Prunus, Tilia Cordata…and others that we don’t, Griselina, Corokia, Red Robin… any mention of these will see you escorted off the property.

Beech hedges are dominant at Stablehouse. They are majestic. Smooth oval leaves of rich bronze smelted in Autumn then continuing to glow throughout winter before being dismissed by fresh green spring growth.

The Bay (Laurus Nobilis) hedge is the garden’s bodyguard; deeply protective, robust, dense and highly tolerant of coastal conditions, dry summers and frosts. Without the bastion of its surrounding Bay hedge our vegetable garden would whimper, weep, then probably curl up and die.

The Michelia displays at the Red Sheds Garden are attracting a ridiculous amount of attention after just two years in the growing. Even small aircraft are starting to circle them. The variety Lyn has planed is ‘Inspiration’. Others include Gracipes, Paton Pink, Fairy Cream, Lemon Scent and Church Mouse, they’re all gifted children. It’s a stunning evergreen hedge, a year-round beauty. The blooms, from late winter to spring bring to mind a Paris perfumery yet as elegant as it presents, Michelia is tough and resilient as well.

Stablehouse Nursery is open every Thursday, 10 – 3ish. Come and talk hedges with Sarah, or about anything else ‘gardeny’. We’re at 21a Morris Road, the first driveway on your left after turning onto Morris. And if Thursdays doesn’t work just call her on 021 511223 and make another time and day. Happy Hedges!

What is that on yonder tree?

No doubt about it…it’s a blossom!
The garden is stirring, its beauty sleep very close to an end. Tulips are getting out of bed, Pyrus is already heavy with armfuls of white confetti and the beech hedges are chatting with each other about a possible change of wardrobe. It’s a wonderfully optimistic time of the year, just by digging a hole you can add a promise of life and colour to your garden.
Come for a wander and a chat at the nursery here at Stablehouse, it’s a rather pleasant place to while away the minutes or even an hour. The aisles are full of splendid specimen trees, shrubs, flowers, buxus, grasses, citrus…all ready and waiting to join Spring’s mardi gras in your garden.

Stablehouse Nursery, 21a Morris Road, Te Ore Ore, Masterton (first driveway on your left after turning onto Morris Road). Open Thursdays 10-3ish. If that doesn’t work just call Sarah on 021 511223 and make another time and day.

Magnificent Michelia.

There’s something a little ‘Marilyn’ about Michelia Paton Pink. Very glossy, very elegant, a soft, full and Rubenesque flower, a tad melodramatic and renowned as a notorious scene stealer. And right now is the perfect time and opportunity to plant Michelia aka Marilyn, in your garden. A new wee shipment arrived a week or two ago - some were carried away by customers at the Garden Fiesta at Clareville last Saturday but there’s plenty more in store, as well as a thousand or so other magnificent trees, shrubs, citrus, hydrangeas, grasses, ivys, lavenders, and of course buxus, so many buxus…
Come for a wander, the nursery is open every Thursday, and if that doesn’t work for you just give Sarah a call on 021511223 to organize another day and time.
Stablehouse Nursery. 21 Morris Road, the first driveway on your left after turning onto Morris Road, Masterton. Open Thursdays 10-3ish.

It’s Beech time!

The European Beech. Or Fagus sylvatica if you want to impress at your next dinner party. Here at Stablehouse Garden the beech hedge plays an indispensable role in the construction of our many ‘rooms’. It is the walls, the frame, the corridors that create the formal structure of the garden. At three metres tall, these hedges stand to attention around each enclosure or beside each display, creating expectation and even a little mystery as one room after another is revealed. And they are quite beautiful. In the warmer months they are a fresh, crisp green. But come autumn the leaves turn to copper, glowing in the sunlight like newly smelted bronze. The frame itself is a part of the masterpiece.

Last week we took delivery of 150 young beech trees ready and waiting to help you create your own hedge. They prefer full sun to partial shade plus a well-drained soil and right now is the perfect time to put them in the ground. They are currently 60-90cm tall, plant them 0.5m apart. The price is $15 each.

Stablehouse Nursery. First driveway on the left after turning onto Morris Rd in Te Ore Ore, Masterton. We’re open every Thursday 10-3ish but if that doesn’t work for you just give Sarah a bell on 021 511223 and organize another day & time.

Naked trees looking for a good home.

They’re shivering a little in the early mornings, as you would when your clothes have fallen off and the temperatures are single digits. But what doesn’t freeze you makes you stronger and our stocks of specimen trees, shrubs, buxus, hydrangeas, Angel Wings, citrus and grasses are particularly robust and ready to snuggle into a hole in your garden which right now is especially easy to dig.

Come and take a winter wander, there’s a lot to look at and prices are on the skinny side. Stablehouse Nursery. Open every Thursday from 10 to 3ish. First driveway on the left after turning onto Morris Road, Te Ore Ore, just a minute or three outside of Masterton.