Pūkaha Garden Tour in Greytown

2020 marks 10 years of Pūkaha’s much loved annual fundraiser – the Pūkaha Wairarapa Garden Tour. This two-day, self-drive garden tour features beautiful and unique gardens in South Wairarapa including Greytown Village. 

There are four beautiful gardens from Greytown Village featured in the tour this year; Dogwood HALL, Grand Illusions, Muddy Boots Allotment, and Kereru.

As always, the tour offers plenty of variety: gardens for small spaces, sustainable edibles, natives, ornamentals, rural homestead gardens, and urban courtyards. Pick your gardens and choose your route according to whatever tickles your gardening fancy. The tour offers at least 12 gardens to choose from. Locally sourced and home-made refreshments will be available in selected gardens and BYO picnics are welcome in some gardens.   

Dogwood Hall

Dogwood Hall is the stunning courtyard garden of Lorraine Hall. With a natural flair for design, Lorraine created her courtyard garden with a love of nature, colour, and symmetry in mind. She plotted on paper first and wanted to achieve soothing vistas to gaze upon when looking out from inside her historic villa.

Kererū

Kererū is a garden journey of three parts. Part one is a regenerating remnant of original forest that once stretched all the way south to Wairarapa Moana. Part two is a restored spring-fed waterway with endangered long fin eels and giant kōkopu (just like at Pūkaha). Part three is a covered garden filled with avocados, fruit trees, berries and veges in raised beds.

Grand Illusions

Grand Illusions is a small 800 square metre garden that packs a punch. Though small in area, it’s grand in stature and finds space for a series of themed rooms ranging in style from colonial to contemporary. Since 2018 Craig has added an orangerie and Balinese shrine.

Muddy boots

Muddy boots allotment is the garden of Toni Cathie. 10 years ago she bought a 110-year-old home on half an acre of grass. She spent the next six months pulling out the unkept hedge that suffocated the property, then started collecting the large boulders which now border the garden.

After touring the gardens come for a lovely afternoon treat with Rose & Smith on the Tauherenikau Lawn. There will be nature-inspired treats to buy from local makers and growers. Perfect to treat the gardener in your life! On Sunday 8th November From 3.30pm – 7pm. Purchase your tickets here.

As always, the tour offers plenty of variety: gardens for small spaces, sustainable edibles, natives, ornamentals, rural homestead gardens and urban courtyards. Tickets are on sale now here or for a chance to win two tickets, head over to our Facebook page.

There will be special menus, free gifts, competitions, amazing sales, treats, complimentary mulled wine and discounts galore to kick start Greytown’s very first Festival of Christmas! We’d love you to share your Greytown experience with us by using #greytownvillage on Instagram.