Drive-in THEARTE: Lynda Hallinan discovers a glamorous Taranaki garden with a grand sense of scale

摘要

Bryce and Delwyn Barnett don't do anything by halves. The couple's elegant two-hectare Taranaki garden is home to thirty-eight giant Canary Island date palms (Phoenix canariensis), two thousand daffodil bulbs, twelve dovecotes, a large lake, countlessrhododendrons and magnolias and half a dozen imposing stone sculptures set off by verdant lawns of Eden Park proportions. In the garage there are seventeen cars: Bryce's vintage car collection includes an Austin Cambridge, Buick, Cadillac, Corvette andRolls-Royce - although Delwyn prefers to pack the groceries into her "cute little convertible" Mercedes.