Trelinnoe Park & Gardens

Trelinnoe Park's 30 acres is said to be one of New Zealand's finest woodland gardens.

It combines wide sweeps of lawns and carefully framed vistas with an impressive collection of trees and shrubs, both hardy and subtropical, many rarely seen in cultivation.

Situated on the temperate east coast of the North Island of New Zealand, the garden is almost frost free; under the high shelter of large trees grow such plants as Luculia gratissima, cymbidium orchids, vireya rhododendrons, jacaranda mimosifolia.

The gardens contain plants from such diverse habitats as the Himalayan high mountains to the semi-tropical climes of Mexico and Brazil. There are an incredibly wide range of trees, both evergreen and deciduous. Part of the garden comprises indigenous flora, with eventual forest giants now pushing through the original nurse crop cover of Kunzea ericioides.

The garden is especially spectacular in spring when its extensive magnolia collection is in bloom.

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