Wairarapa Garden Tour

This spring ‘picking’ garden takes its name from County Antrim in Northern Ireland where our gardener’s family come from.

Here’s a chance to see a compact, clean slate new build garden that despite its young age is already flourishing.

Stu (head gardener) and artistic director Kalli have transformed Ivy Turret Gardens into a colourful mix of flourishing flora and eclectic garden art.

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 (water meadow) is a lush rural garden nearly 30 years in the making.

Over 11 years, this one-hectare colourful flower lovers garden uses prairie style planting to combat dry, stoney Wairarapa soil.

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 is the transformation of a formal garden for contemporary living.

Tarata is a two-hectare woodland style garden named after the Lemonwoods (Tarata) planted in this Masterton garden, 27 years ago.

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 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.

North-east of Masterton, this hilly-farm-reclaimed-as-garden has been over forty years in the making.

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.