Gardens

Longbush Cottage is a modern cottage garden, comprising a series of rooms each with a different but complementing theme radiating out from a classic 19th century cottage, open between September and April.

Dursley Garden is over 100 years old and is lovingly tended to by Judith Callaghan, who welcomes visitors through-out the year, as the garden changes significantly from season to season.

Queen Elizabeth Park’s collection of exotic trees is stunning, some planted more than 140 years ago. In total there is more than 180 specimen trees, ranging from the skyscraper American redwoods to the quirky Bhutan Pine.

Come along with your telescope, a torch, and evening picnic as Becky Bateman, Astronomy Guide from Under The Stars helps you navigate the stars, then pick some laveder as you watch the sun set. 

Tikara Country Gardens is stunning with it's 5 acres of Japanese Maples, Iris’s, Roses and much more. Bring your own picnic lunch and enjoy the wonderful views of The Tararua Ranges and Ruamahanga River.

Every year in January, Lavender Abbey hold popular "Pick Your Own Lavender" days at their property in Carterton. 

Visitors from all over New Zealand come to experience lavender growing wild and enjoy the incredible aroma. With more than 2000 flowering lavender plants its like a slice of Provence right here in Carterton. 

Take a tour of Brancepeth, one of Wairarapa's grandest and most treasured historic sites. This colonial homestead and gardens near Masterton is still owned by the family who settled on the land in 1856.

 A fundraiser for Pūkaha National Wildlife Centre the Wairarapa garden tour is a self-drive weekend showing off some of the most beautiful private gardens in the Wairarapa.