Gardens in New Zealand

Welcome

Welcome to the New Zealand Gardens Trust ‘Find a Garden’ - the most comprehensive source of New Zealand gardens, both private and public, open to the public. All gardens have been visited and assessed to ensure the information provided is correct. They have also been graded to provide you, the garden visitor, with the confidence to make informed decisions on which gardens to visit. This site has many tools to enable you to easily find gardens, and plan your travels.

Welcome to Gardens to Visit.

A collection of New Zealand garden designs.  This site lists formal gardens, tropical gardens, vegetable gardens, and 'many other garden designs and venues for Weddings, Accomodation, Plant sales, Other (gifts, garden art) sales, Cafe/Restaurant and Functions.If you’re a keen gardener you will enjoy your visit to New ZealandIt’s a funny little fact but gardening is rated as one of New Zealanders’ favourite pastimes. Being a long north-south country means that everything from the sub-tropical to the sub-alpine grows here. If you’re a keen gardener you will enjoy your visit here.

Gardening stores.

The Go Gardening gift card is New Zealand’s first and only national gift card that can be purchased and redeemed at participating garden retailers. The scheme is owned, operated and backed by Nursery & Garden Industry New ZealandTui is a friendly and trusted New Zealand brand delivering high quality gardening products to help you achieve top gardening results. City Tours in Darwin We have the gardening products and the gardening knowledge to be a friend in your garden - take a look at our monthly gardening diaries, step by step growing guides and videos, and download a useful planting calendar.

The March issue of New Zealand Gardener 

See the results of Lynda Hallinan's garlic growing trial
Press your own olives
Bring in bees on a budget
And we visit gardens in Tauranga, Waikato, Waitara and Dunedin

Gardens plant raids repeated

Biosecurity officers have returned to the Auckland Botanic Gardens to investigate alleged illegal plant import
Many cities and towns have garden tours where you can visit botanic gardens and private gardens alike with the gardeners sharing their love of what they grow and how they grow it. The rural garden tours of Eastland, Manawatu, Whanganui, Wairarapa and Christchurch - Canterbury are often hosted by residents of stately historic homesteads. Visit Kerikeri’s Palmco Gardens and wander through lush sub-tropical splendour

Special garden stars for its owners

North Nelson's Thackwood Garden has been awarded five stars and recognised as a "Garden of National Significance" by the New Zealand Gardens Trust