More on the ‘interesting curio’: The Monkey Puzzle in New Zealand, Part 2

by Mike Lloyd Republished from The Local Arboretum: Noticeable trees and their stories The first blogpost on the monkey puzzle tree in New Zealand finished with a view of a good specimen in Queen M…

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Upcoming Hamilton Talk: Cultivating luxury: the early modern craze for hothouse pineapples

Dr Garritt (Chip) Van Dyk – University of Waikato      24 September 2026, 6.00-7.30 p.m. The Link Room @ Hamilton Gardens (suggested donation: $10 waged; $5 unwaged) From the seventeenth century, p…

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Not a Standard ‘Rise and Fall’ Story: The Monkey Puzzle Tree in New Zealand, Part 1

by Mike Lloyd Republished from The Local Arboretum: Noticeable trees and their stories One of Wellington’s very few monkey puzzle trees. Source: Author, August 2026 Stories of trees falling in and …

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Violet Days

by Clare Gleeson [This article is reproduced from Australian Garden History with the permission of the Australian Garden History Society.  The Society produces four journals a year which cover New …

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New Publication: ‘Beside the Cenotaph’

Here are six examples of cenotaphs, obelisks, or similar World War One memorial structures that all have phoenix palms beside them: Source: Postcard of a war memorial, Akaroa. Ron Scarlett Collecti…

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The Bridges of the Dunedin Botanic Garden

By Alice Lloyd-Fitt, Dunedin Botanic Garden The Dunedin Botanic Garden is dissected by the Lindsay Creek, dividing the garden into two distinct areas; the more formal, level Lower Garden and the st…

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A Buxton Favourite in the Deep South: Earnscleugh Station’s Fan Palm Pair

by Mike Lloyd Reposted from: The Local Arboretum: Noticeable trees and their stories Robert Percy Moore is regarded as New Zealand’s greatest panoramic photographer.1 Particularly during the 1920s,…

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Upcoming talk: Aotearoa in Bloom: The History, Culture and Practical Uses of New Zealand’s Flowers

As part of Hamilton Book Month, we are hosting authors Rachel Clare and Tryphena Cracknell, who will provide a talk on their book “Aotearoa in Bloom: The History, Culture and Practical Uses o…

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The New Zealand and South Seas International Exhibition 1925/26: Gardens and Horticulture

by Alice Lloyd-Fitt The New Zealand and South Seas International Exhibition was a major World’s Fair held in Dunedin, New Zealand, from 17 November 1925 to 1 May 1926, a total of 24 weeks. It…

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Leave the Leaves: A Short History of Rhubarb Poisoning in New Zealand

by Ian Duggan Despite the danger of rhubarb leaves being known for over one hundred years, their consumption remains one of the most highly reported causes of poisoning by plants in New Zealand. Ba…

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Leave the Leaves: A Short History of Rhubarb Poisoning in New Zealand

by Ian Duggan Despite the danger of rhubarb leaves being known for over one hundred years, their consumption remains one of the most highly reported causes of poisoning by plants in New Zealand. Ba…

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Avalon in Lower Hutt was once part of the famous five-hectare Mason's Garden

If you're walking around the streets today, you might not realise you are walking past trees planted in the 1800s.

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Avalon in Lower Hutt was once part of the famous five-hectare Mason's Garden

If you're walking around the streets today, you might not realise you are walking past trees planted in the 1800s.

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Shakespeare Gardens Around the World Honor the Playwright—and Hold Their Own Storied History

The curated plots of flowers, herbs and trees serve as windows into Shakespeare’s work and life

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Garden History Research Foundation Podcast 1 Professor Karen Jones 2026

YouTube video by Garden History Research Foundation

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From dump to destination: The story of Hamilton Gardens

The Time Traveller’s Guide to Hamilton Garden tells the story of how mastermind designer Peter Sergel transformed a town's rubbish dump into one of the great gardens of the world. It’s not so much a...

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A Directory of Alfred Buxton Gardens

Clare Gleeson (author of The Fairer Side of Buxton: Alfred Buxton’s Gardens and the Women Who Loved Them, The Cuba Press) Alfred Buxton created gardens throughout much of New Zealand, as far south …

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Welcome to Miramar, Wellington’s Pohutukawa Suburb

by Mike Lloyd Republished from ‘The Local Arboretum: Noticeable Trees and their Stories’ Source: ‘Wellington from the air, 1930‘, F. Douglas Mill Collection, Auckland Libraries Heritage…

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Welcome to Miramar, Wellington’s Pohutukawa Suburb

by Mike Lloyd Republished from ‘The Local Arboretum: Noticeable Trees and their Stories’ Source: ‘Wellington from the air, 1930‘, F. Douglas Mill Collection, Auckland Libraries Heritage…

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Upcoming Hamilton Talk: Jane Deans, Rebel Gardener: Power and Politics and the Making of a Nineteenth-Century Colonial Garden

Riccarton House, 2019, with garden. Photo by Sgerbic. This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license. The Garden History Research Foundation invi…

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Upcoming Hamilton Talk: Jane Deans, Rebel Gardener: Power and Politics and the Making of a Nineteenth-Century Colonial Garden

Riccarton House, 2019, with garden. Photo by Sgerbic. This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license. The Garden History Research Foundation invi…

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The daffodils that became a taonga

Daffodils that travelled with a missionary woman from England to South Taranaki 180 years ago, will soon bloom at Waitangi.

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Cider's forgotten, ancient history

Dr Trevor Fitzjohn is the owner of Teepee Cider, a boutique, traditional method cider orchard and producer in the Wairarapa. A retired history-lover with a personal library of over 1,000 rare books, h...

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