Timara Lodge Blenheim

  Arrived in our beautiful home in Blenheim – Timara Lodge.   It’s an 81 acre property. It was part of the 600 acre property of an English gentleman ( Bryan Johnson) who came to New Zealand in the 1800s. It’s beautiful!!! #Blenheim #TimaraLodge #newzealand #H2HNewZealand2016  Arrived in our beautiful home in Blenheim – Timara Lodge. It has 4 rooms so just right for our group. So we have it all to ourselves.   In November 2014 Barry ( 77 years old) bought Timara Lodge for his wife Selena as a birthday gift! Selena ( from Hongkong) loves gardens and gardening. They operated 7 hotels but kept only 1 which is in Marlborough which has 4 Filipinos. Barry said that there is some point in your life when you have to stop and smell the roses and they are literally doing that in their beautiful home. So happy to meet this lovely couple and wish we could have stayed longer at Timara Lodge #TimaraLodge #Blenheim #newzealand #rosegarden #H2HNewZealand2016  Dan Carter a famous rugby player got married at Timara Lodge in 2011. The ceremony was held by the lake and There’s a grass tennis court in the garden where the wedding reception was held  The rooms are named based on the view it has 🙂 I love the lake  So peaceful and beautiful.  Black swans at Timara Lodge. They started with a couple that had 4 baby white swans ( that eventually become black swans when they grow up. ) After they had another 5 babies. The father swan usually doesn’t want the kids to stay where they are.   There are protected trees in Timara Lodge and are over a hundred years old and can’t be cut  Tall and old tree by the lake named “The Professor” You sit by the swing and he talks to you  and he talks to the lake at Timara Lodge #TimaraLodge #Blenheim #marlboroughnz #newzealand #theprofessor White garden where all the flowers are white and the rose garden. They are working now on a new garden which will be Japanese   26 acres of Timara Lodge is garden and its irrigated by computer and there are 5 dedicated gardeners maintaining them. There are 300 kinds of roses  –   Rainbow garden which is by the tennis lawn and has flowers from all the colors of the rainbow
 Phoebe’s garden was named after the daughter of the 2nd owner,   Tall and old tree by the lake named “The Professor” You sit by the swing and he talks to you and he talks to the lake

There are around 600 olive trees and occupies 6 acres of the Timara Lodge. They make Cold pressed olive oil

Art works all around the garden

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