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The Ridges is an old country garden set on a terrace above the Rangitikei River. The garden is 2.5 hectares with another 3 hectares of woodland alongside State Highway 1 near Marton, North Island, New Zealand.

It was established in 1924 by May and Alan Marshall and is now cared for by their granddaughter Sally Marshall, with help from her family. The garden is well known for its driveway lined with rhododendrons underplanted with Cyclamen hederifoliuim. A stand of kahikatea to the southeast and mixed native trees on the ridge above to the west form a backdrop to views in the garden, which looks out to surrounding countryside and the Ruahine Ranges.
The Long Walk - a sheltered environment for rhododendrons, maples, lilies and hostas. A huge Magnolia campbellii flowers behind in July and August. The Spring Statue in the Sunken GardenThe two sunken gardens, one made in the fifties by May as the setting for the statue "Spring" and the other in 1990 to compliment it, are planted with a mass of perennials in front of old brick walls.
About The Ridges Garden