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OPENING HOURS & PRICES
Open September to April
10.00 am to 5.00 pm
If you would like a guided tour it is best to phone ahead. However, you may also walk around independently. There is a printed guide for you to follow if you wish.
The entry charge is $8/person. Children accompanied by parents are free.
Perennials for sale $4 each.
GROUP VISITS
We welcome both small and large groups. Large buses can turn at the top of our drive.
Group visits should be booked in advance. We also ask organisers to pay the admission charge with a single cheque or cash for the group.
We provide a guided tour of the garden and talk about the house.
Some groups e.g. Probus and garden groups bring morning or afternoon tea/coffee with them. We are happy to provide hot water and the use of our patio. Other groups choose to make arrangements with cafes in Carterton or Clareville.
GUIDED TOURS
The tour of the garden includes a walk through our parkland, with a commentary on the various trees, a circuit of the lake with its bank plantings, then back into the inner garden where we talk a little about the house and its association with the Daysh family. We then move past the rockery and through the four large perennial beds where we talk about the various plantings. We welcome discussion with other gardeners! From here we reach the northern boundary of the garden where there are mixed plantings of native trees and shrubs. We then move back into the rose garden and out onto the main lawn where we talk about the shrubs along the western border. Those who wish may then explore our 'bush walk' of young native trees and shrubs.
DISABLED ACCESS
Our garden is generally flat so it is possible to use a wheel chair.
There is a slight rise to the promenade around one end and far side of the lake, but there are good views from the near side which is flat.
There are steps to the lower levels of the area planted with native trees and shrubs.
June 2010
HERITAGE MONTH
Heritage Promotion Council Wellington Region
Heritage and Our Environment
The Trees We Inherit and Nurture
Daysh House Garden includes examples of native trees e.g. an ancient totara, and introduced trees e.g. a ginkgo biloba planted by Agnes Daysh in the mid 1920s. Native and introduced trees continue to be planted at Daysh House Garden.
GETTING THERE
The address is 393 Chester Road which runs west from SH2 at Clareville, 1.5 kms north of Carterton. The Garden is 4 kms along Chester Road. Look out for the Daysh House Garden sign on the left.
If you travel from Wellington to Carterton by train http://www.tranzmetro.co.nz/TimeTable.aspx
you can arrange for Carterton Shuttles to meet you at the Carterton Railway Station and bring you out to Daysh House Garden. Phone Gary Jonas (06) 379 5303 to book and go. Gary can take up to 7 passengers.
If you are travelling to the Wairarapa from Auckland by air, phone Graeme Jones Car Rentals in Masterton 06-378-6667 or go on-line to: www.graemejonesrentalcars.co.nz/ for a rental car.
LINKS
http://www.wairarapanz.com/
http://www.destinationnz.co.nz/index.php
http://www.wairarapatravelguide.co.nz/
http://www.wairarapatravelguide.co.nz/
http://rainbowtourismdownunder.blogspot.com
CONTACT
Daysh House Garden
393 Chester Road
RD1 Carterton
edginton@actrix.gen.nz
Tel. (06) 379 5690
Fax. (06) 379 5695
Bill
Gary
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