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Dunedin's gardens

Garden lovers will derive enormous pleasure from Dunedin: it is a city of gardens.

The mild climate and diverse micro-climates provide suitable environments for a vast range of plants.

New Zealand's first botanic garden, opened here in 1869.

Today it is one of the nation's finest gardens.

It is particularly famed for its rhododendron dell which bursts into colour every spring (November)...

- the highlight of Dunedin's Rhododendron Festival.

Glenfalloch, gaelic for ‘hidden valley’, comprises 30 acres of woodland garden.

In pride of place stands a 1000 year old native matai tree. Planting started here over 130 years ago.

You can stroll at leisure among rhododendrons, azaleas, magnolias, fuchsias...

visit the pottery...

or the cafe...

... or sit under the mature oaks, walnuts, elms, horse chestnuts, birch, English beech, or maples.

Or visit the Lanarch gardens or dozens of other private gardens that are open to the public....

...or simply relax in our own garden.


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