SALLY TAGG/NZ GARDENER/Stuff
The jetty has hosted many ceremonies. It’s also a favourite place for owners Susi and Mal Liddington to take their evening drinks and talk about what’s next for the garden.
When Susi Liddington’s then huband-to-be first took her to see the land he had bought for them near Kerikeri in the Bay of Islands, he had to cut a track in through the gorse and blackberry with a machete. Nothing had been done to the property for a decade, but it didn’t stop her from visualising a house site on the hill. “I looked up from down the bottom and said, ‘We’re going to build a house up there’.