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 $10 – 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