Gardens

Learn about farm animals during a guided visit to Martinborough Manor's working farm, or take a tour of their stunning gardens.

A festival of all things gardening from plants to produce and everything in between on Saturday 20 August 2022.

Longbush Cottage Tulip Festival celebrates the majestic tulip every Spring on the first weekend of October, with thousands of varieties planted.

Longbush Cottage comprises a series of gardens rooms with complementary themes radiating out from a 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. Download a map and go for a tree walk.

Astronomy guides help you navigate the stars, then pick some lavender as the sun sets. 

Every year in January, Lavender Abbey hold popular "Pick Your Own Lavender" days, or shop year round at The Big Box of Lavender for a stunning range of lavender products made onsite from their multi-award winning 100% pure lavender oil.

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.

 The Wairarapa garden tour is a self-drive weekend showing off some of the most beautiful private gardens in the Wairarapa.