There are many fascinating and unique things about this garden including its name. Pepped Warbeck Garden was created from family member’s initials back in 1976 when Fee and David Weaver moved to New Zealand after five years in Calcutta, India. With five small children under the age of six they bought the property, sight unseen and began their new lives back in New Zealand.
Fee says she has always been passionate about gardening. “When the two youngest, twins, started playschool I didn’t do the housework, instead I couldn’t wait to get outside into the garden,” she says, recalling the first tree she ever bought, a weeping silver pear tree. Some forty years on Fee and David’s garden has evolved.
With their youngsters having flown the nest, Fee and David decided to build a new home on the property in 2007. With space not a problem they moved the building platform away from the original homestead to a new north facing site with all day sun. They then set about transforming the garden to compliment the contemporary style of architecture they had chosen for their new home.