Our House and Garden

 Hawera has a  mix of styles of houses. Many are colonial with columns and porches. They have either wooden horizontal siding or they have plaster and brick. Some have fieldstone foundations and columns with  wood siding. Many and most are really neat and pretty. But like any town some are really run-down and in need of some TLC. Ours needs a painting but it has character.

It has really nice gardens in the front and back. There are magnolia and rhododendron bushes, and others I don't know the names of. If anyone can help me out,that would be great.

It has quaint features like garden benches, wood men and a treehouse.

I have put in some tomato plants ( Moneymaker and Russian red) and parsley. I'm looking forward to the harvest in 65 days.

What I really love is the rose trees!

Here are some other flowering plants in the yard.

There is beauty all around us. Today we saw the top of Mt. Taranaki! It was there all the time but for the first time since Sept. 14 the cloud and mist has risen! We actually turned some heaters off last night and Simon took a cover off his bed. Warmer times are coming. Break out the sun-screen!
Thanks for reading!