Gardening Gardening is the process of growing plants for their vegetables, fruits, flowers, herbs, and appearances within a designated space. Gardens fulfill a wide assortment of purposes, notably the production of Aesthetics, aesthetically pleasing area ...

is a popular pastime in

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. A 2007/2008 survey of physical activities found that 43% of New Zealanders had participated in gardening in the previous 12 months. A range of books, magazines and television programmes are dedicated to the topic. New Zealand has restrictions on trading during the

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holiday break, and in recent years garden supply centres have flouted the law and remained open.

Gardens

* Ayrlies Garden *

Caccia Birch House Caccia-Birch House (previously: Nannestad Homestead, Woodhey, Vice-Regal Residence, The Convalescent Home for Women of the Services) is a New Zealand colonial homestead and a Heritage New Zealand Category I Historic Place. It is located at 130 ...

* Dunedin Chinese Garden * Government Gardens *

Ohinetahi Ohinetahi (: "The Place of One Daughter") is a valley, historic homestead, and formal garden on Teddington Road, Governors Bay, Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand, Canterbury region, New Zealand. Ohinetahi valley is situated at the head of Ly ...

* Parnell Rose Gardens * Pukeiti Rhododendron Trust

Botanical gardens

Auckland Botanic Gardens Auckland Botanic Gardens is a botanical garden in the New Zealand city of Auckland. It is located in the suburb of Manurewa, in the Manurewa (local board area), Manurewa Local Board Area. The garden covers , and holds more than 10,000 plants.Auc ...

* Bason Botanic Gardens *

Christchurch Botanic Gardens The Christchurch Botanic Gardens, located in the Christchurch Central City, central city of Christchurch, New Zealand, were founded in 1863 when an English oak was planted to commemorate the solemnisation of the marriage of Edward VII of the Un ...

Dunedin Botanic Gardens The Dunedin Botanic Garden (often incorrectly referred to as the Botanic or Botanical Gardens) is located at the northern end of central Dunedin, in the South Island of New Zealand. The garden is close to the University of Otago and one of the ci ...

* Gisborne Botanical Gardens *

Hamilton Gardens Hamilton Gardens is a public garden park in the south of Hamilton, New Zealand, Hamilton owned and managed by Hamilton City Council (New Zealand), Hamilton City Council in New Zealand. The park is based on the banks of the Waikato River and i ...

Ōtari-Wilton's Bush Ōtari-Wilton's Bush is a native botanic garden and forest reserve located in Wilton, New Zealand, Wilton in Wellington, New Zealand. It is New Zealand's only public botanic garden dedicated solely to the native plants of New Zealand. Overvi ...

Queenstown Gardens The Queenstown Gardens, located next to the town of Queenstown, New Zealand, is a botanical garden which contains a variety of exotic and native trees and plants as well as a large pond and a range of facilities. The facilities in the garden ...

Wellington Botanic Garden Wellington Botanic Garden ki Paekākā is a botanical garden close to central Wellington in New Zealand. It covers of land in a valley between Thorndon, New Zealand, Thorndon and Kelburn, New Zealand, Kelburn, with Glenmore Street as a bounda ...

Arboreta

Eastwoodhill Arboretum Eastwoodhill is the national arboretum of New Zealand. It covers and is located 35 km northwest of Gisborne, New Zealand, Gisborne, in the hill country of Ngatapa. It was founded in 1910 by William Douglas Cook. Cook's life work would becom ...

Hackfalls Arboretum Hackfalls Arboretum is an arboretum in New Zealand. It was founded in the 1950s by Bob Berry (dendrologist), Bob Berry. It is part of Hackfalls Station, a sheep and cattle farm of about 10 square kilometres, owned by the Berry family. The farm is ...

Events

Ellerslie Flower Show The Ellerslie International Flower Show was an annual garden show held in New Zealand. Previously held in the city of Auckland, the show moved to Christchurch at Hagley Park in 2008. Attendance is several tens of thousands of people at each ev ...

Auckland Flower Show The Auckland Flower Show was a flower and garden show held in Alexandra Park in the suburb of Epsom, Auckland in November 2008. Previously, the Ellerslie Flower Show was held at the same time of year in Auckland, and had been held every year si ...

Taranaki Garden Festival Taranaki is a region in the west of New Zealand's North Island. It is named after its main geographical feature, the stratovolcano Taranaki Maunga, formerly known as Mount Egmont. The main centre is the city of New Plymouth. The New Plymouth ...

Gardeners and horticulturists

Maggie Barry Margaret Mary Barry (born 5 October 1959), generally known as Maggie Barry, is a New Zealand radio and television presenter and politician. As a member of the National Party Barry was elected to the House of Representatives in the 2011 gen ...

presented a television show and writes a gardening column * Bob Berry *

Lady Anne Berry Lady Anne Sophia Berry (''née'' Walpole, 11 December 1919 – 18 September 2019) was an English-New Zealand horticulturist who founded Rosemoor Garden in Devon. She offered the garden to the Royal Horticultural Society in 1988. In 1990 she mar ...

William Douglas Cook William Douglas Cook (New Plymouth, New Zealand, 28 October 1884 – Gisborne, New Zealand, 27 April 1967) was the founder of Eastwoodhill Arboretum, now the national arboretum of New Zealand, and one of the founders of Pukeiti, a rhododendron g ...

Barbara Winifred Matthews Barbara Winifred Matthews (née Silver; 9 July 1917 – 10 July 1997) was a New Zealand newspaper and magazine editor, gardening writer, and horticulturist. Biography Born Barbara Winifred Silver in Lower Hutt, she was the daughter of Winifred Lo ...

* James William Matthews * Eion Scarrow * Emily Stevens

Environmental issues

With the European settlement of New Zealand, which occurred in relatively recent times from an ecological perspective, a wide range of plants were introduced into the country for both agriculture and for gardens. Many of the plants went on to become

invasive species An invasive species is an introduced species that harms its new environment. Invasive species adversely affect habitats and bioregions, causing ecological, environmental, and/or economic damage. The term can also be used for native spec ...

. Some notable examples of invasive plants that are used in gardens include: *

Agapanthus ''Agapanthus'' () is a genus of plants, the only one in the subfamily Agapanthoideae of the family Amaryllidaceae. The family is in the monocot order Asparagales. The name is derived . Some species of ''Agapanthus'' are commonly known as lily o ...

(''Agapanthus praecox'') * Blue morning glory (''Ipomoea indica)'' *

Old man's beard Old man's beard may refer to the following: * ''Chionanthus virginicus'', a tree, which is used like a medicinal plant and ornamental plant. * ''Clematis aristata'', an Australian climbing plant. * ''Clematis vitalba'', a climbing plant. * ''Tillan ...

(''Clematis vitalba'')

Online hoax

New Zealand has been at the centre of an online hoax about prohibition of home gardening, where residents of New Zealand supposedly had their gardens containing such plants as avocado trees and

feijoa ''Feijoa sellowiana'' also known as ''Acca sellowiana'' (O.Berg) Burret, is a species of flowering plant in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae. It is native mainly to the highlands of Colombia, southern Brazil and the hills of northeast Uruguay, but i ...

trees confiscated or destroyed. The topic garnered further attention when a blog post in 2020 which was widely replicated on facebook claimed that a new food bill would require home gardeners to obtain authorisation to share home-grown plant matter, giving food safety officers the power to perform raids on property. The post was in fact referring to a 2010 bill that was passed into law as the Food Act 2014, which specifically excludes "seeds... or other plant material intended for planting" from the scope of the legislation. The blog post has largely been debunked as

sensationalism In journalism and mass media, sensationalism is a type of editorial tactic. Events and topics in news stories are selected and worded to excite the greatest number of readers and viewers. This style of news reporting encourages biased or emoti ...

Plants

Feijoa sellowiana ''Feijoa sellowiana'' also known as ''Acca sellowiana'' (O.Berg) Burret, is a species of flowering plant in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae. It is native mainly to the highlands of Colombia, southern Brazil and the hills of northeast Uruguay, but i ...

'' are popular garden plants in New Zealand, which produces one of the most popular fruits in New Zealand.

References

External links

New Zealand Gardens TrustRoyal New Zealand Institute of HorticultureNew Zealand Alpine Garden SocietyGarden Design Society of New Zealand"Garden plants invading our bush"
at the Department of Conservation {{Horticulture and Gardening