Puketarata Garden – Information
Visitor Information
- Open 9am – 5.00 pm 7 days a week but we recommend you phone to make an appointment
- Open 9am – 5.30 pm during the Taranaki Garden Festival in the first week of November
- Entrance fee – Adults $20 – Children Free
- Toilet
- Seating
- Picnics welcome
- Wheelchair access
- Dogs on a lead
- Parking for cars and small buses
- Larger bus groups can be picked up from the road by appointment
Key Features
- Over 2 acres of garden rooms nestled in a hillside contour
- Natives include cabbage trees, dracophylum, rata, kauri, nikau, ponga, coprosma, hutu, pseudopanax, miro & totara hedges
- Pergolas
- Box pottager
- Sculptures
- Woodland areas
- Berry house
- Fruit trees
- Herbaceous planting giving flowers, colour and scent
- Borrowed views of inland Taranaki and Mt Taranaki/Egmont
- Planted gully below house with tracks they are developed now!
- Part of the Taranaki Regional Council’s opossum control scheme. Possum and rat bait stations are maintained throughtout the property which has greatly increased the bird population; Tui’s, Kereru and Bellbirds in particular
