Thank you for a very special day. Your garden is so peaceful and inspiring. We could just feel the love you have put into making this a little bit of New Zealand paradise. I found it quite an emotional experience to sit in your beautiful garden and just enjoy being there.
Jill Ensor - Mt Hobson Ladies Friendship Club
I loved your garden. It has a soul. Your garden has a sense of place of where it is and what it is. Therefore it is unique. All a unity and a garden that is like no other and which could not be anywhere else in the whole world. Of course, it is well-groomed too.
Margaret Barker - Founding Director - Larnach Castle
I first saw Ōmāio many years ago when on a lecture tour to New Zealand from the UK. It really is the most amazing and special place with a collection of plants superbly well placed together. A true plantsman’s paradise, Very well worth a visit, notebook and camera in hand.
Rosemary Alexander - Principal at the English Gardening School - UK
I thought your garden was fantastic, your location and setting stunning, your flora and fauna full of great combinations of native and exotic plants and then the beautifully planned walks (fearless back-breaking natural beauty) And then everywhere its resourceful complementing design elements, that made your garden a NZ wondrous coastal native experience.