Penny & Ken Diprose, Rosenvale
Tickets have gone on sale for Te Awamutu Altrusa’s 30th Home and Garden Ramble.
Ross & Sue have lived on their twelve acre property for three years.
Approaching the house up the winding driveway, the twenty three year old brick homestead is slowly revealed. It is positioned amongst mature plantings of specimen trees and under planted with swathes of spring bulbs, violets and summer perennials.
The event has been a significant fund raiser since 1995 – by 2014 the club had distributed $300,000 into the community and it has raised a further $231,527 in the last decade.
This year the ramble will feature a dozen venues and is a mix of garden sizes, in both new and renovated homes – and includes a chapel and a bush walk.
Robyn Atherton told The News the ramble will also feature stalls with crafts, ceramics, garden art and hand sewn little girl’s dresses and woollen coats.
“Also, this year we have a large number of vegetable plants, flower plants and bouquets of fresh flowers.”
She noted the November 2 Sunday event was well timed as the Te Awamutu Rose Society hosts its annual show on the Friday and Saturday of that weekend.
The Te Awamutu Health Shuttle, Life Education Trust and Te Awamutu Food Forests have been selected as major recipients of funds raised this year.
Money raised also goes to Club Literacy and other community projects, which this year includes books for newborn babies and books for Plunket, Kainga Aroha, Loving Arms and Women’s Refuge, and a day out for Grandparents raising Grandchildren.
See: Altrusa Home and Garden Ramble
Rosenvale, Penny & Ken Diprose
