March 2025

Written By Nic Oram

Welcome to our March newsletter!

Hurunui Garden Festival

Thursday 30th October - Sunday 2nd November 2025
9am - 5pm daily

Rose's Corner - Amberley

Our Amberley Cluster is growing!

The Hurunui Garden Festival is excited to bring you a larger Amberley cluster in 2025. Along with Blue House, Rose's Corner and Maskells Garden, you will have the opportunity to visit two new gardens. The gardens are all unique in their own ways and offer an insight into different planting styles and uses of space. There will be a garden that every visitor can relate to.

With five gardens, this can be it's own day trip, or broken up, provides stops on the way to and from our other clusters if you're day tripping from Christchurch.

Newstead Garden - Hawarden

March Gardening

Autumn is upon us, although here in the Hurunui we seem to finally be having summer with soaring temperatures and irrigation restrictions in place. Things are certainly not looking quite as lush as they do when you visit the festival during Spring! Despite this, the few colder mornings with mildew on the ground do give us a reminder that we still need to be carrying out a few jobs in the garden to ensure they continue to look their best.

  • Add compost or organic matter to your soil where nutrients may have been lost.

  • Plant seeds directly for vegetable crops that thrive in cooler conditions.

  • Plant winter flowering seedlings.

  • Plan your show of spring blooms and plant out bulbs.

  • Prune back any summer plants which have finished their growing cycle.

  • Keep on top of the weeds and start mulching to retain moisture.

While you are busy toiling away in the garden, make sure you take time to enjoy the last of the vibrant summer blooms, (the dahlia's are still putting on a spectacular display) and if you're an edibles grower, enjoy the fruits of your labour!

Our Sponsors

Introducing the 2024 line up of sponsors! We would really appreciate any support you are able to give the wonderful businesses who sponsor us.

DIAMOND LEVEL SPONSOR

GOLD LEVEL SPONSORS

 
 
 

SILVER LEVEL SPONSORS

BRONZE LEVEL SPONSORS

 
 

If you want to contact the committee, or require any information contact us via our email address info@hurunuigardenfestival.com   

If you haven’t ‘liked’ our Facebook or Instagram page yet, we recommend you do as we are often posting snippets of information and updates – more regularly than newsletters.

Check out our website www.hurunuigardenfestival.com  which holds information about the gardens, places to go, see and do. This will be updated regularly as we lead up to the festival in October.

Nic Oram
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