POHUTUKAWA BOWER:The spirit of summers past inspired an award-winning cliff-top Auckland home

摘要

Childhood memories of holidays spent at a Coromandel bach, with a magnificent pohutukawa providing shelter, set the mood for Sue and Stephen Glading's Howick home. Two 100-year-old pohutukawa trees, clinging proudly to the cliff, emerge as the most precious, defining features of their propertyAs a child, Sue spent summer holidays with her family at Hot Water Beach and the pohutukawa along the coastline became synonymous in her mind with special times.