The sun was starting to set around 8:30 yesterday and I was suddenly compelled to explore the gardens. The evening light was perfect and I took the short five minute walk down past the studios, through Mr. Flemers private estate and entered the garden past the locked gate. The last time I walked the gardens with my friends from out of town, the employees were bustling around in there carts, trimming hedges and bushes and picking weeks from every bed. Tonight I had the garden almost to myself.

The photos below will be labelled the best I can, let me know in the comments if I have labelled anything wrong or if you can add anything.

The Entrance to The Secret Garden

I missed it the first few times I was down this way. It wasn’t the easier to find. I guess that’s why they call it “The Secret Garden”

Inside the Secret Garden

I could spend an afternoon on here. That blue bench is a beautiful touch.

A beautiful Water feature

The sound of running water in the garden is magical. Also providing birds and wildlife in the park a cool place to hangout.

My favourite place to explore

Chef Alex’s personal herb garden. The Garden has an onsite restaurant that serves up fresh eats during the day to the visitors of the garden, the cafe also makes our dinner each night. We are very lucky and eat very well.

French Tarragon

This little herb has this amazing licorice flavour.

The Chef's produce garden

Here, potatoes, tomatoes, zucchini, squashes and cucumber are grown for use at the Garden’s cafe and for dinner here at KIRA. We are very lucky.

These were glowing in the evening light

Can anyone name these? The unbloomed blossoms were all twisted up.

Honeysuckle

It smells so sweet. One of my favourites.

Daylillies

The different varieties of daylilies here in the garden are amazing. This is definitely one of my favourites.

Another Daylily

Just beautiful.

The Goats

I tried to get a picture of the alpacas but I think they were all put to bed.

Heading back to the KIRA property

These were erected recently for a private event at the Amphitheatre recently. I think they make the garden look regal.

Tomorrow I am heading into St John with Sarah, our wonderful housemother. She makes life here that much more beautiful. I am also going to try another local Lobster Roll, which will be my last one, it is like the pokemon of Lobster Rolls, You have to eat them all. I will be doing a post about that soon. It’ll be a fun one I promise.

As always, thanks for following along. If you have any questions or comments, or you want to see something I haven’t shown yet, I have turned on the comments section. Ask away!!

Kristofer.