I was browsing through a 2007 Weekend Gardener when I came across an article about Doreen Follas and lovely photos of her garden Wentworth in Whitford.
She and her late husband Colin had spent 13 years building this beautiful country garden. It was sad to read that all those years of hard work were to fall prey to a new housing area. After fighting the property developers Doreen had accepted that she was to lose Wentworth and all the hard work that went into building it. Does anyone know if Wentworth did fall victim to this planned housing area and what happened to Doreen?
Judy Eva, New Plymouth.
Doreen did sell up 18 months ago. She says land banks secured all the surrounding Botany land which is now tenanted, undeveloped and rundown.
She bought a five-acre property in Clifton Rd, Whitford, not far from Ayrlies.
“It has a four and a half acre garden so I am flat out developing it, and loving it,” she says. I’ve already had bus loads of gardeners to visit and some visited us at Wentforth.” – Editor
