What you'll be visiting...
Cedar Park
101B Lowes Road, Rolleston
Explore this spectacular, peaceful 1.5-acre garden in Rolleston, offering something for everyone.
Enjoy a variety of beautiful gardens, trees and a productive potager. On-site parking is available and a selection of plants are for sale. Bring a picnic and relax.
*15 and 17 November only.
Entry: $5 adults, children free.
Broadfield Garden
250 Selwyn Road, Rolleston
Explore this award-winning garden, featuring beautiful vistas, New Zealand cultural icons, topiary, bonsai, and well-kept hedges. Find practical ideas for garden design, planting advice, and maintenance tips, with a focus on plants that thrive in Canterbury.
Wander through various plant collections, including beech and kauri forests, a canal, a museum lawn, and an azalea garden. Talk to experienced gardeners for tips on growing native plants. Bring a picnic and enjoy a peaceful day outdoors.
Entry: $20 adults, children free.
The Herbal Garden
205/1 Jowers Road, West Melton
Discover a thriving organic permaculture haven where culinary and medicinal herbs grow alongside vibrant flowers, trees, vegetables and a flourishing orchard. Explore handcrafted herbal skincare products, teas, and salts, all made from the garden’s abundance.
Entry: $12 adults, children free.
Ortel Garden and Nursery
West Melton
This expansive, meticulously designed garden, over 30 years old, features garden rooms with roses, vegetables, and pleached hornbeams. Explore ponds, a stream, perennial borders, new wave planting and a Japanese-inspired cloud-pruned garden. The garden includes an extensive plant collection, native arboretum and various plantings.
Visit the on-site nursery open daily at 11am, 1pm and 3pm. Tea and refreshments are available for purchase.
To book tickets and receive the address visit ortel.nz
*14, 15 and 16 November only
Entry: $20 adults, children free.
Casa Rossa
203 Jowers Road, West Melton
Visit this 1.25-acre Italianate garden, transformed over 25 years from a former shingle quarry into a masterpiece with a 5-star Garden of National Significance rating from the New Zealand Gardens Trust.
Explore the tapestry beech walk, vibrant maples, elegant roses, striking junipers, and unique artworks throughout the garden.
Entry: $15 adults, children free.
Knockdolian
505 Deans Road, Darfield
Established in 1939, Knockdolian is now a 4-star Garden of National Significance, recognised by the New Zealand Gardens Trust. With a variety of well-established areas—orchard, vegetable garden, rose garden, native plants, rockery, deep borders, and woodlands—there’s plenty to explore and enjoy.
Entry: $15 adults, children free.
Tai Tapu Sculpture Garden
1/199 Cossars Rd, Tai Tapu
Tai Tapu Sculpture Garden, a native regeneration project, showcases work by some of New Zealand’s favourite artists set within one hectare of native bush.
Since 2010, over 8,000 trees and shrubs have been planted, creating a haven for rare native plants of Canterbury and a sanctuary for native birds and art lovers alike. Explore, discover and be inspired.
Entry: $20 adults, children free.