Ashton Glen Perennial Nursery & Countryside Needlepoint are two separate businesses but run form the same place in the rural heartland of New Zealand and now retailing from the same website to the wider world.

Ashton Glen Perennial Nursery has been selling plants by wholesale and retail to New Zealanders for 20 years.  Our Online Shop is offering a further way to purchase our plants. 

Countryside Needlepoint was born out of the need to offer something crafty to the (mostly female) foot traffic that passed through Ashton Glen's Nursery and Garden when we were involved in Garden Tours, and has continued to grow and develop from there.

Our property is located at Clinton in South Otago, near the bottom of the South Island of New Zealand.  The nursery is placed to one edge of the garden and is a small part of our farm.   We farm grain, sheep and cattle.  So as a family we are kept busy and out of mischief.  Our three teenaged sons are very versatile and only too willing to be helpful.  We hope that they will leave home with a good grounding in Agriculture and Horticulture - and no doubt with soil under the finger nails.

The Nursery and Garden is not open to the public groups anymore, as we were for quite a number of years.  It became a lot of work just keeping the place up to standard and always tidy for the large amount of grouped visitors we had.  There became less time left to grow the plants, which was defeating our purpose.  Family commitments overruled too with our want and need to do things with our children.  So that door closed.  However, I never turn individuals away should they just arrive on me, but they must just take us as we are - often in the middle of something and in an organized muddle!  If you have made the effort to find us, then we will make the effort to share our place with you.  We hope that we can help you enjoy your patch of garden.

View some photos of "Our Patch"