Save the date for 2022 – 5 & 6 November
This two day, self-drive garden tour features beautiful and unique gardens in the Wairarapa.
We’re excited to bring you old favourites and some new gardens that have never been open to the public before!
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Wairarapa Garden Tour
2022 GARDENS COMING SOON!
Toilet
Refreshments
BYO picnic
Sales available
Wheelchair accessible
Ballymena
This spring ‘picking’ garden takes its name from County Antrim in Northern Ireland where our gardener’s family come from.
Foxhall
Here’s a chance to see a compact, clean slate new build garden that despite its young age is already flourishing.
Ivy Turret
Stu (head gardener) and artistic director Kalli have transformed Ivy Turret Gardens into a colourful mix of flourishing flora and eclectic garden art.
The Landing
This established garden spans two hectares and takes its name from a landing built into the creek that runs down the side of the property.
Patiki Kūkūwai
Patiki Kūkūwai (water meadow) is a lush rural garden nearly 30 years in the making.
Kinder Garden 2021
Over 11 years, this one-hectare colourful flower lovers garden uses prairie style planting to combat dry, stoney Wairarapa soil.
Halford Hideaway
This expansive garden includes several unique features: three wetland ponds, a sunken garden and a QEII Trust covenanted area of native trees. It’s a restful sanctuary to enjoy the sights and sounds of nature.
Ranginui
Ranginui is the transformation of a formal garden for contemporary living.
Tarata 2021
Tarata is a two-hectare woodland style garden named after the Lemonwoods (Tarata) planted in this Masterton garden, 27 years ago.
Glengarry
A charming urban cottage garden set on a quarter-acre in Masterton, Glengarry is opening for the first time to the public on the 2021 Pūkaha Wairarapa Garden Tour.
Stoney Hall
Stoney Hall is a 20-year-old garden developed from a bare paddock – you’ll find old-fashioned perennials, roses and ornamentals in this whimsical Wairarapa garden.
Spothill
North-east of Masterton, this hilly-farm-reclaimed-as-garden has been over forty years in the making.
Rāhui
This is a garden that has come of age. Planted a decade ago, Rāhui’s 1.1 ha elevated section is not far from Masterton but enjoys a quiet rural outlook over a neighbouring deer farm.