Oasis Cottage

Oasis Cottage Oasis Cottage is a NZGT 3-star country garden growing toward 4-star status.

We offer garden visits, florist services for Oxford, floristry and botanical skincare making workshops, and an intimate wedding venue set within our five-acre garden.

Our new Garden Season Passes have arrived.This season, your first $15 garden admission can become a Season Pass, allowin...
07/09/2026

Our new Garden Season Passes have arrived.

This season, your first $15 garden admission can become a Season Pass, allowing you to return to Oasis Cottage on any of our advertised Garden Open Days for the remainder of the 2026/27 season at no additional admission cost.

We have around 18 open days planned between spring and late summer, so there should be plenty of opportunity to see the garden change through the season.

Simply ask for a Season Pass when you visit and we’ll issue your named card on the day.

$15 per person · valid for the 2026/27 season · advertised Garden Open Days only.

03/09/2026

I vowed not to buy any more dahlias this year.
That went well.
Then an email arrived from Bulbs Direct with their Gallery Collection dahlias, which I thought would be perfect for a new display on the verandah. And, naturally, a few extras somehow found their way into the order too.
Surely I’m not the only gardener whose good intentions are undone by a well-timed email…

Our first Garden Open Days for the 2026/27 season are now confirmed.We’ll open Oasis Cottage on five days in October and...
31/08/2026

Our first Garden Open Days for the 2026/27 season are now confirmed.

We’ll open Oasis Cottage on five days in October and November, from 10.00 am to 5.00 pm. Visits are self-guided, so you can take a map and explore the garden at your own pace. Tea, coffee and homemade biscuits are included, and we’ll have a small selection of plants for sale.

NEW FOR 2026/27 — GARDEN SEASON PASS

Garden admission is $15 per person, and this season your first visit becomes your Garden Season Pass. Keep your pass, and you can return at no further charge on any of our advertised Garden Open Days through to the end of March 2027.

We’ve introduced the Season Pass because Oasis Cottage changes so much from spring through summer and into autumn, and we’d love our visitors to experience more than one moment in the garden.

Come back and see the garden change.

You can purchase tickets online in advance or at the gate. Children under 15 are free.

The garden will, as ever, be a work in progress.

28/08/2026

Winter pruning in the lavender patch.
I planted this Lavandula × intermedia ‘Super’ about ten years ago, and each winter I cut the plants back hard, being careful not to cut into the old woody growth.
There are a lot of plants, so I usually spread the job over several days. They look rather severe when I’ve finished, but this annual pruning has kept the patch compact and productive.

A small daffodil study.The first of our daffodils are flowering at Oasis Cottage, so I picked a few from around the gard...
25/08/2026

A small daffodil study.

The first of our daffodils are flowering at Oasis Cottage, so I picked a few from around the garden and brought them into Atelier Florale for a closer look.

It’s only when you put them side by side that you realise just how varied daffodils can be.

There’s ‘Kapiti Peach’, a Tazetta with the prettiest soft peach centres; ‘Cragford’, another Tazetta with vivid orange centres and a wonderful fragrance; ‘Cassata’, with its extraordinary frilled lemon-yellow split corona; ‘Fortissimo’, rather bold in yellow and orange; and the glorious double ‘Dick Wilden’, which looks remarkably like a rose when you see it up close.

These are just some of the early varieties flowering now. There are many more still to come — so although the garden is beginning to wake up, I’m certainly not declaring winter over just yet!

Swipe through for a closer look, with an identification guide at the end.

Do you have a favourite?

21/08/2026

We’re back after our winter break. A little look at what we’ve been working on at Oasis Cottage over the past few months — and what’s coming as the garden wakes up for spring.

The dried flower corner in Atelier Florale has had a tidy-up.I cleared out older material that had reached the end of it...
31/05/2026

The dried flower corner in Atelier Florale has had a tidy-up.

I cleared out older material that had reached the end of its useful life and replaced it with flowers dried this season. The difference in colour retention has been remarkable, particularly with the purple statice, Pink Pokers and blue delphiniums.

All of these flowers were grown here at Oasis Cottage and dried for use through the quieter months when there is less flowering in the garden. Having a collection ready to dip into makes it easy to experiment with arrangements and small creative projects over winter.

The shelves are looking much better now and are ready for the season ahead.

22/05/2026

A hallway transformation at Oasis Cottage.

We replaced our old white runner with this custom-made design inspired by the shape of a flower, with colours drawn from the peacocks in the wallpaper.

It has brought so much more energy and personality into the entrance hall while still working beautifully with the age of the cottage and the old timber floors.

Tilly immediately approved and spent the afternoon charging up and down it like she owned the place.

Sometimes one bold piece is all a room needs.

A productive day in the garden today.We lifted the canopy of the old silver birch trees beside the cut flower garden to ...
19/05/2026

A productive day in the garden today.

We lifted the canopy of the old silver birch trees beside the cut flower garden to allow more light into the growing area. An added bonus was improving our glimpse of the hills beyond.

These birches are certainly not young — they were already this size when I bought the property over 20 years ago.

The trees look far better for the attention, and nothing went to waste either. The prunings were added to the bund we’re gradually building up for shelter from the easterly wind, which is also becoming useful habitat for birds and wildlife.

One of those satisfying jobs that instantly changes the feel of an area.

17/05/2026

A glimpse of one of our big autumn and winter projects.

What was once just an ordinary paddock is slowly being reshaped into a series of island beds leading visitors down towards the pond garden. We’ve been forming gentle mounds and curved planting areas to create movement through both sunny open spaces and cooler shaded pockets.

The vision is for the beds to feel immersive and layered — almost like wandering through a small botanical archipelago.

Much of the planting will focus on foliage for my floristry work, along with grasses to bring softness, height, and movement through the seasons.

There is still a great deal to do, including the pond itself, but it’s exciting to finally see the bones of the area beginning to emerge.

One of the pleasures of gardening is imagining what a space might become long before it gets there.

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1093 Woodstock Road
Oxford
7495

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+64210709729

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