Scotland & The Gardens

Here is a selection of our photos from the weekend.

We went to the Scotland day at Te Papa on Sunday.

And found the tulips and blossoms to be surviving the changes in weather quite nicely at the Botanic Gardens.

Spring Festival at Botanical Gardens

The Wellington Botanic Gardens have their Spring Festival on this weekend.

The tulips have survived the icy hail stones in the week and are about to show us all their glory.

SPRING FESTIVAL

17 September - 2 October 2011

This two-week festival has more than 30 events, with highlights including:

▪ Otari open day and plant sale on Saturday 17 September

▪ Tulip Sunday in the Botanic Garden on 25 September.

This year we've designed the Botanic Garden's renowned tulip beds to pay tribute to the overseas teams playing in Wellington for Rugby World Cup 2011. The planting's been done so that the flower colours will represent teams' national flags.

you can download the festival guide here:

Spring Festival 2011 programme 

The duck pond

The magnificent flowering Magnolia tree

The surviving tulips of the icy week

Flax ball at entry

Daisies

Spring - believe!

To help you through the cold wintry blast we are experiencing, we thought you would enjoy thinking about what is coming, ever so soon - believe, it will come.

Spring Festival

17 September - 2 October 2011

This two-week festival has more than 30 events, with highlights including:

• Otari open day and plant sale on Saturday 17 September
• Tulip Sunday in the Botanic Garden on 25 September.

This year we've designed the Botanic Garden's renowned tulip beds to pay tribute to the overseas teams playing in Wellington for Rugby World Cup 2011. The planting's been done so that the flower colours will represent teams' national flags.


Spring Festival 2011 programme (960Kb PDF)


Carterton Daffodil Carnival, Wairarapa
Sunday 11th September
to celebrate spring, come and wander around 120 craft & produce stalls in Carterton's main street.  Take a shuttle bus to Middle Run to pick your own daffodils for a donation.
http://www.cartertondc.co.nz/daffodil-carnival.html


There is something else coming next month, now what is it again.....

Proof of Spring

There is life in the trees.  Proving that spring is on it's way, even if we can't officially call it spring yet.

There is plenty planned for the Spring Festival, so stay tuned.

In the meantime feast your eyes and believe, spring is springing.