21. Black Gates

Set on 1.9ha with a sustainable vegetable garden, fruit trees, microgreen glasshouse and livestock paddocks, this garden illustrates a country lifestyle with the convenience of living close to the city.

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25. Korito

Suburban permaculture garden educating visitors on self-sufficiency and growing food.

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41. The Galleys Garden

Through the canopy entrance of 20-year-old prunus, michelia are underplanted with ivy to give structure. This property was purchased 4 ½ years ago and the owners have since transformed this mature garden with palms, varieties of fern, bromeliaeds, and natives.   

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4. Hollard Gardens

Established in the fertile rural landscape south of Taranaki Maunga by renowned plantsman Bernie Hollard in the 1920s, this property boasts a plant collection of national importance.

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13. King Edward Park

King Edward Park is rated by the New Zealand Gardens Trust as a nationally significant garden. The ancestry of the park est. 1902 is seen in its charmingly formal design.

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17. Pukekura Park

Located in the heart of New Plymouth, Pukekura Park is a Garden of National Significance, has a five-star rating from the New Zealand Gardens trust and has the International Green Flag award.

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23. Te Henui Cemetery

One of New Plymouth’s hidden gems, the city’s oldest cemetery has a 5-star Tripadvisor rating. It features a wide range of mature trees as well as 6ha of graves planted with masses of flowering plants.

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24. Tūpare

Tūpare is an Arts and Crafts-inspired property established in 1932 by the Matthews family, owned and managed by the Taranaki Regional Council on behalf of the people of the region.

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32. Pukeiti

Over seven decades, Pukeiti has built up one of the world’s biggest and most distinct collections of rhododendrons and other exotics against a backdrop of lush native rainforest.

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36. Jungle Nurseries

Renowned New Zealand designer Michael Mansvelt has transformed an empty garden centre into a site so verdant and vibrant, he has named it Jungle Nurseries.

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38. Tropics of Mangati

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18. Te Kāinga Marire

Te Kāinga Marire is the only private native garden sanctuary in New Zealand to be rated as a Garden of International Significance.

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27. The Nice Garden

An urban oasis hidden by one of New Plymouth’s oldest wooden buildings. Lush palms & tropical foliage surround a sheltered deck with outdoor fire.

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31. Tropical Treasures

Tropical Treasures is a private subtropical garden set within a subtropical outdoor and tropical indoor plant nursery.

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40. Frog Lodge

After selling their nursery Cedar Lodge 12 years ago, these plants people have transformed 7ha of rural farmland into Frog Lodge. David and Noeline’s passion for conifers feature throughout this “tree garden”.

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3. Stanleigh Gardens

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5. Leonie's Garden

Leonie’s large country garden typifies everything Taranaki's reputation for gardens is built on. Her garden of abundance has flourishing rhododendrons, pieris, maples, a bog area lined with hostas, swathes of hellebores and perennials everywhere.

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7. Gravetye

Gravetye is a formal garden that celebrates the simplicity of mass green planting. Wander along the mixed border, pass the sunken vegetable garden, the reflection pool, the pleached limes & the laburnum arch, which all radiate from the house. 

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29. Ngā Manu Garden

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33. Te Kukumara

Te Kukumara is a sub-tropical garden for fun, family and feathered friends. Add art, automobiles and an aviary, plus palms, pigeon doves and plantings en masse to imagine Bryce and Delwyn Barnett’s 10-acre (4-hectare) garden near Waitara.

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