Taranaki Rhododendron & Garden Festival
When it comes to beauty, Taranaki region has more to show off than most.
It is bursting with spring colour right now, good sign for the Taranaki
Rhododendron & Garden Festival 30 October – 8 November, 2009.
The 10-day festival, will feature more than 50 gardens,the largest-ever, covering Opunake, Okato, New Plymouth, Lepperton, Waitara, Inglewood, Tariki, Stratford, Eltham, Hawera and Manaia.
All the way around our beautiful Mountain, Mount Egmont/Taranaki.
Thousands of visitors will attend the festival, walking through gardens and parks, driving around our coastal roads, or on bus tours, looking at the beauty that only Taranaki can offer, rhododendrons, gardens, with colours you would not believe you could see, green pastures, animals, machinery getting in the silage crops, mountain, rivers, sea, the never ending beauty of nature, which Taranaki Region has one of the most generous environments in the world with a climate ranging from sub-tropical on the coastal areas to rainforest surrounding Mount Egmont/Taranaki in the heart of the province.
Soil is an added factor in creating Taranaki’s province of beauty.The mountain is the heart of the region, a dormant volcano that’s responsible for the rich volcanic soil, and the region’s warm temperatures and good rainfall mean vegetation flourishes.
As well as gardens there are other places of interests on the tour, where people,that are not interested in gardens, can hang out.
Te Kupenga Stone Sculpture Society, Centennial Drive NewPlymouth.
http://www.tekupenga.com
Jack and Beth Martin, 625 Frankley Road. New Plymouth, have Vintage tractors under restoration plus a whole lot more.
Colin & Viv Honnor, 375 Waitara Road, Waitara, a large collection of over 40 vintage tractors,hay bailers, mower. ploughs etc
Tatatm Museum, 13 Kent Road New Plymouth, Agriculture vintage barn full of the past era of used machinery.
Pioneer Village, SH3 Stratford, Collection of buildings and machinery from days gone by.
Mikes Museum, Mike Coils 130 Bridge Street, Eltham, NZ’s oldest privately own museum building
Tawhiti Museum & Farm Power Hall, 401 Ohangai Rd Hawera, Extensive display of maori and colonial history.
For More information http://www.taranakigardens.com
Some of the business sponsoring The Taranaki Garden Trust
New Plymouth District Council
http://www.newplymouthnz.com
Stratford District Council
http://www.stratford.govt.nz/
South Taranaki District Council
http://www.stdc.co.nz/index.php?page=home.php
Taranaki Electricity Trust
http://www.taranakielectricitytrust.co.nz/
TSB Community Trust
http://www.tsbtrust.org.nz/
93.2 MORE FM Taranaki
http://www.morefm.co.nz/
Weekend Gardener
NZ’s do it yourself gardening magazine
http://www.weekendgardener.co.nz
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Hi I am Elsie Hagley, living in Okoki, Urenui, Taranaki, semi retired farmers wife and mother of five grownup children, and fourteen grandchildren, eight great grandchildren,worked for thirty years in the rag trade, and been in the farming industry for the last 50 years.
I am a computer addict, love helping people, teaching how to get a website or blog, by getting their business on the internet, letting the world know that Taranaki is a great place to own a business.
Community Partner of Taranaki and New Plymouth NZ.
Also enjoy social networking and making friends all over the world.