GRAND VISION
LEADING NEW ZEALAND garden designer Suzanne Turley had an early introduction to gardening. As a child, she helped her grandfather Walter Gladwin on his quarter-acre plot. “A day at Grandad’s was picking fruit, feeding the chooks and digging up potatoes,” she recalls. “That’s where it started; my love of being in the garden.”
During her teens, Suzanne considered a career in floristry but decided on fashion instead and later opened the iconic Blanche Maude clothing boutique in Auckland. But it was the beautiful English-style perennial garden she created at her first home that
