Gardenstone is a rural garden just 6 kms from Dannevirke.

The house garden features roses, clematis, perennials and mixed plantings. It is divided into garden rooms by arches, and hedges of buxus, hornbeam, beech & holly. Local river stone has been used to build a large well and retaining walls.

A kilometre-long walk takes visitors through mature kihikatea, totara and matai, past drifts of arthropodiums and statuary, to seats and a woodland stream.

There is a formal potager with a central water feature, raised beds, brick paving and statues.

A large grass Cretan labyrinth is at the bottom of a lime walk, bordered by mature trees and a babbling stream.

Labyrinths:
  A single path maze
  A'walking' meditation
  An exercise in right brain intuitive awareness
  An opportunity to just 'be'
  A calming therapeutic experience
  An opportunity to hear the voice within
  An ancient mystic experience

There has been a modern revival of interest in the positive effects of the labyrinth experience and many are constructed in churches, airports, parks, retreat centres, health centres, schools and private gardens.

Walkers find solace or answers to problems as they follow the continuous path.

Information from Tararua Community Online

Getting there ...

Physical Address:

190 Otope Road, R.D. 5
Dannevirke
Tararua
North Island
New Zealand

Availability: Call for availability

Contact: Lyn Charlton

Phone: +64 6 374 8259

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Gardenstone Organic Farmstay and B&B Cottage