Friendly Home, Gorgeous Grounds, Enough Avocados

A fine country life with options for living and working, in hedged grounds merging into avocado.\n\nLike the many native birds it attracts you will be drawn immediately by the beautiful established grounds (featured in the Tauranga Garden and Artfest 2010) which create the setting for a relaxed rural life. The home is approached up a flower and foliage lined drive culminating in ample parking outside a substantial triple carport (designed to be closed in with garage doors if desired). Behind the carport a spacious self contained flat allows private separate accommodation for a family member, could be a rental or for your home business base.\nPaving separates the two dwellings and completely surrounds the comfortable unpretentious mid 1990s three bedroom home where you will find all the space you need but nothing superfluous. There is a large lounge through French doors off the foyer then spacious open plan living including kitchen, dining and casual seating - all facing the garden and opening to covered patio outdoor living with roll down panels for extra shelter. You will love entertaining and dining outside while family and friends cool off (or enjoy the tepid temperature!) of a heated in ground pool, which, while fenced fully for safety, becomes a garden enhancement with its semi tropical surrounds. A 'changing shed' built to keep wet children out of the house could equally serve as a studio or hobby room. The pool equipment is neatly out of site beside a single garage sized implement shed behind the pool gate.\nBedroom accommodation includes two doubles and a master suite. Both bathrooms have been updated recently in fresh white and blue. The laundry is sensibly inside the door to the rear of the property where on a tidy lawn, by the clothesline and woodshed, a tank holds high quality water from a bore you share with a neighbour. \nNo need for filtered water here! Solar panels heat your household water and an efficient wood burning fireplace your north facing home.\nWalk the grounds through curving garden beds with layers of plantings topped by mature evergreen and flowering trees; pass beside verdant hedges to at least a dozen varieties of fruit in the home orchard at the bottom of the garden, home also to sun trap vegetables gardens, vines bursting with grapes and berries and a big shade house currently used for storage but ideal for propagating. The 45 Hass avocado trees which form an L shape edging the grounds had a particularly good last season where at 21 bins they more than paid their way.\nWhen the school bus stops at the gate and Tauranga's CBD is just fifteen minutes away, local shopping even closer, you have every reason to relish country life in a friendly caring community without giving up city advantages. \n \nFew regions in New Zealand or the world for that matter have as much to offer as the Bay of Plenty. From the gentle harbour waters to its surf beaches, its fishing and diving grounds to the scenic bush, the Bay is as much a quiet recreational playground as it is a thriving business and rural community.\nKey economic elements for the region include Tourism, Horticulture (predominately Kiwifruit and Avocado production), Viticulture, Pastoral farming, Forestry, Housing and Holiday Makers. The rapid growth in the area provides a vibrant living environment from job opportunities to business prospects with a sustainable future.\nTauranga as a city is one of the fastest, if not fastest growing cities in New Zealand. With a mixture of beautiful scenery, great beaches, cafes, restaurants and nightspots it is more than a city it is a lifestyle. The award winning schools also provide a key reason why Tauranga is proving to be such an attractive destination for both ex Kiwi's and migrants as a place to set up their new life in New Zealand.\n