Real Gardens for Real People 29Th October to 7Th November 2021
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Real Gardens for Real People 29th October to 7th November 2021 Taranaki Explore a variety of beautiful gardens Purchase plants you’ve seen in the gardens Get practical advice from garden hosts Enjoy arts and crafts Only $2 per person, payable at each garden gate Programme downloadable from our website TaranakiFringeGardenFestival www.taranakigardens.co.nz Quick tips for multi day visits Important for visitors Allow 45mins - 1 hour for each garden visit, and allow a While the garden owners take maximum of 6 gardens per day every care to make sure you enjoy Allow 4-5 days for your tour to cover the majority of our gardens. your visit safely, gardening is an outdoor activity and you enter at Very economical, only $2p/p at each garden, this is payable on your own risk. entry to each garden. We do not have pre-booked tickets. There are water features, uneven Travel each day to a different geographical location, ground, and overhanging trees. eg. Waitara /Bell Block, Inglewood/Stratford, Hawera & the surrounding countryside, New Plymouth/Oakura/Opunake, We ask you to assume Rural Bell Block/Lepperton. responsibility for your own safety, the safety of those in your care, View icons and information on each garden/POI listing to see if especially children, and your toilets, refreshments, plants for sale and wheelchair access are possessions. available and whether parking restrictions apply. Dates and open times are also listed. Please keep to pathways where available. See our website or Venture Taranaki website for accommodation options. No dogs are to be brought through the gardens. For more information or help to organise your tour, please contact Anne at [email protected] proudly sponsored by Thank you to tgm for their support Brought to you by If you are interested in being part of Chairman Festival Organiser/Advertising the Taranaki Fringe Garden Festival, or John Lucas Anne Clough wanting to advertise in our programme, Mob 027 416 4131, Ph 06 755 2273 [email protected] please contact us. Facebook Mob 021 450 770, Ph 06 752 7531 [email protected] www.facebook.com/ Lost and found The deadline for new garden applications TaranakiFringeGardenFestival Please contact us for the 2022 festival is 27/11/2021 Website by email or phone as listed. www.taranakigardens.co.nz Real Gardens for Real People Welcome to OUR STORY The Taranaki Fringe Garden Festival is being presented for Just as important as the gardens are the gardeners behind the 17th time in 2021. This year, we are excited to share them and the Trust seeks to celebrate their passion and with you more than 50 gardens throughout the region. achievement. That’s why we encourage you to meet the gardeners, share their stories, and learn from their We often get asked why Taranaki presents two garden adventures. festivals at the same time. The easy answer is that we have so many gardens worthy of attention, but there’s We’re committed to keeping things personal, and more to it than that. accessible. Entry to any of our gardens is $2.00, as it was when we started 17 festivals ago. We acknowledge and In 2005 the Taranaki Garden Trust was formed to present thank all the supporters, volunteers, gardeners and others real gardens created by real people. This is where we differ at the Fringe who have contributed their time and energy from the philosophy and focus of the parallel event. The to what we do and to allow us to keep prices at that level. gardens you will find in the Taranaki Fringe Garden Festival are unashamedly honest and real, and each garden tells Welcome to the 2021 Taranaki Fringe Garden Festival. an impressive story of passion, energy and effort. We’re incredibly proud to be different, and to have been so from the outset. We offer a large variety of gardens that range from those that are picture perfect to those that are practical and We thank you for your support and invite you to discover, achievable. This spectrum of gardens are chosen by design. share, and enjoy our real gardens for (and by) real people. We want you to go away brimming with inspiration and On behalf of the Taranaki Garden Trust. the knowledge that you too can create your own garden John Lucas, Chairman. of delight regardless of the time, money, or space you have to hand. Photo credit: Mark Harris Photo Listing Guide Taranaki Driving Times New Plymouth to Hawera 60 minutes LISTING LISTING LISTING LISTING New Plymouth to Opunake 55 minutes NUMBER NAME COLOUR MAP REF New Plymouth to Waitara 20 minutes New Plymouth to Stratford 35 minutes 48 Opunake - Rural Map A CAMTIKI COUNTRY LODGE New Plymouth to Inglewood 20 minutes Mike and Colleen Starsmore Stratford to Hawera 30 minutes 692 Pati ki Road, RD32, Te Kiri, Opunake Colleen 027 485 6254 | Mike 027 522 2242 Hawera to Patea 20 minutes camti [email protected] 6.92 km from SH45, 2km from Eltham Rd Established rural garden, (ex S&G Campbell) purchased in Feedback 2017. A sheltered garden of perennials, herbaceous plants, shrubs and mature trees. Features orchard, summerhouse, We would love to have feedback about the festival gardens. vegetables, pond and breathtaking views of Mt Taranaki. A quiet rural retreat setti ng. Opunake Lions café. Plants for If you have any comments to make please send them to: sale. Campervans and buses welcome. The Garden Assessor 2pp 204 Surrey Hill Road, R.D. 4, New Plymouth 4374 2th Oct th Nov [email protected] am pm Thank you. Listing Information Key GARDENS LISTING & FLAG COLOUR ENTRY FEE PER PERSON All festival gardens have been Children under 12 years free, PLACE OF unless otherwise stated assessed by an independent GARDEN For garden INTEREST committee to ensure they meet locations, OPEN DATES our high standard. Enjoy the extraordinary splendour and see maps OPEN TIMES variety in our beautiful gardens. O O page 23 - 28 PLANTS FOR SALE PLACE OF INTEREST These include artisan home P P WHEELCHAIR FRIENDLY studios which offer garden Look for our delights. You will also find E E orange flags TOILETS AVAILABLE handcrafted jewellery, paintings, sculptures, pottery, or take a ride N N displayed on REFRESHMENTS AVAILABLE on a locomotive along an historic the street side. stretch of railway. BUS TOURS WELCOME Look out for the blue stripes on their flags. BUS TOURS BY ARRANGEMENT LLS GA HI RD S E S N O S R C COUNTRY FAIR - K - IMBOLTON Enjoy our Annual COUNTRY FAIR VISIT OUR 18 ACRE DISPLAY GARDENS 20th NOVEMBER CHOOSE RHODOS & AZALEAS FROM OUR PLANT CENTRE 180+ OUTDOOR OR BUY ONLINE crosshills.co.nz MARKET STALLS 2 PATEA - HAWERA - OHAWE See map page 24 1 GLASCROFT Patea Map B 3 GABOT’S GARDEN Hawera Map C Julian and Olivia Shimmin NEW GARDEN Alf and Bernie Christi an 23 Scotland Street, Patea 275 Glover Road, Hawera | 500m from SH3 027 711 1828 | 027 242 6129 06 278 6379 | 027 775 6912 [email protected] bchristi [email protected] | Gabots Garden 300m from SH3 Your hosts Bernie & Alf welcome you into our large Bounded by stately pohutukawa’s with 12 individual town garden, made up of recycled bits & bobs to garden rooms on diff ering themes, including semi- show you our litt le bit of paradise didn’t cost a formal borders, roses, orchard area and homage to a fortune: Ever popular landscape maples & fruit trees Victorian stumpery and tudor physic garden. Highlights for sale plus lots of garden art & accessories made on include sculpture, rill 100+ rhododendrons. Based in a site. Picnics welcome, come enjoy a bicky & a cupper old garden 5 years into revival. supplied by Taranaki Ostomy club. Sorry no EFTPOS. 2pp 2pp 2th Oct th Nov 2th Oct th Nov am 5pm am pm 2 LITTLE ARDLUI Hawera Map C June and Hugh Hartwell NEW GARDEN 25 Wilson Street, Hawera 06 278 3393 | [email protected] The next editi on of our garden started from scratch 2020. Litt le Ardlui is a town house cott age garden with a myriad of colours and an abundance of fl owers. Many of the old species came along with us and has fl ourished. There is also a raised vegetable garden, Model Ho railway on display, and craft sales. 2pp 2th Oct th Nov am 5pm MANAIA - ELTHAM - STRATFORD See map pages 23 & 24 XX4 JABULANI Hawera - Rural Map A Neda and Greg Howes 490 Normanby Road, Okaiawa 027 412 1825 | [email protected] 4.5km from SH45 / 8km from SH3 5 year old one acre garden in progress. Meander through pathways leading to interesti ng areas. Sunken entertainment area. Mounded gardens of fl owering shrubs, roses, irises etc. Fernery and vege garden. Mountain views. Tea and coff ee by donati on to Breast Cancer. Plants and craft s for sale. Plenty of roadside parking. Bring your lunch and enjoy. No EFTPOS. 2pp 2th Oct th Nov am 5pm XX5 CAMELLIA COTTAGE Manaia - Rural Map A Jennie Brian McNaught 577 Manaia Road, Hawera 06 274 9420 | 021 057 3439 camelliacott [email protected] 5km from SH45 (South Road) A semi-rural garden with views of our amazing mountain. Full of gathered treasures, where fruit trees jostle with fl owers and vegetables, and herbs nestle among familiar cott age favourites. All are grown with the wellbeing of our planet in mind. Donati ons to Hospice. Sorry no EFTPOS. 2pp 2th Oct th Nov am 5pm 6 HOLLARD GARDENS Stratford - Rural Map A Taranaki Regional Council 1686 Upper Manaia Rd, Kaponga | 0800 736 222 [email protected] www.hollardgardens.govt.nz HollardGardens Hollardgardens Established in the ferti le rural landscape south of Taranaki Maunga by renowned plantsman Bernie Hollard in the 1920s, this property boasts a plant collecti on of nati onal importance.