Native New Zealand Garden Photo Gallery

Alpine Garden
Dicksonia fibrosa. 'Wheki Ponga'
The family home, adorned with the rose Souvenir de Mme Leonie Viennot
Owner, Valda, family dog Del, in front of rustic woodshed.
Pachystegia insignis - Marlborough rock daisy.
View from garden across the Te Henui Valley. Myosotis hortensia - Chatham Is. Forget me not, in foreground
Interior of the fern house - 'whare.' The fern Asplenium bulbiferum in foreground.
A working vegetable garden.
A coastal swamp forrest backdrop.
Inner-city alpine garden.
Clematis paniculata, NZ clematis, flowering September.
Metrosideros carminea, 'Red Rata'.
Clianthis puniceus, 'Kaka beak'.
Red Rata flowering at front entrance, August.
The 'Koru' (unfurling crozier) and 'Whare' (fern house)
'Hine Ahu One' - translated 'First woman formed from Papatuanuka' - Earth Mother. A stone carving by local artist - Reece Rongonui
Fernry Entrance
A gnarled coastal tree - Coprosma coppershine.
New Zealand Gardens Trust - Garden of international significance New Zealand's Native Garden Tui Feeding
Tui feeding from a bird feeder