Important Information

Garden entry is by ticket only.

You can pre-purchase tickets at official ticket outlets, or at any of our festival gardens.

You can purchase as many tickets as you need and there is no booking fee! We encourage pre-purchase of tickets so that our gardeners are free to walk and talk you around their gardens.

Each garden has nominated their charge of either $4, $8 or $12. Tickets are sold in $4 denominations, so that a $4 garden requires 1 ticket and a $12 garden requires 3 tickets etc...

Look out for the following symbol  in the garden descriptions. This symbol highlights how many tickets you need to visit that garden.

Driving times

Auckland - New Plymouth
New Plymouth - Inglewood
New Plymouth - Stratford
New Plymouth - North Egmont
New Plymouth - Opunake
New Plymouth - Hawera
Stratford - Mt Taranaki
Stratford - Hawera
Stratford - Whangamomona
Hawera - Wanganui
Hawera - Wellington

4 hrs 30 mins
15 mins
30 mins
30 mins
45 mins
55 mins
15 mins
30 mins
1 hr 30 mins
1 hr
3 hrs 30mins

Important information for tour operators:

There is no booking fee!

10% discount on garden entry tickets for tour operators booking through our office(groups of 20+).

Book using the easy tour voucher system.

For more information please contact the festival office on 06 759 8412.


New Plymouth, Puke Ariki, 65 St Aubyn St

Stratford, Prospero Pl, Cnr Central Broadway & Miranda St

Hawera, 55 High St

Local information Centres

Waitara, 15a Queen St

Inglewood, Fun Ho Museum, 25 Rata St

Inglewood, Library & Service Centre, 46 Rata St

Opunake, Egmont Library, Tasman St

Oakura, Crafty Fox, Surf Highway 45




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