Taranaki Fringe Garden Festival

Welcome to the 2025 Taranaki Fringe Garden Festival. We're incredibly proud to be different, and to have been so from the outset.

The Taranaki Fringe Garden Festival is being presented for the 21st time in 2025 from 31 Oct -9 Nov. This year, featuring 40 of Taranaki's most beautiful gardens.

We often get asked why Taranaki presents two garden festivals at the same time. The easy answer is that we have so many gardens worthy of attention, but there's more to it than that. 

In 2005 the Taronaki Garden Trust was formed to present real gardens created by real people. The gardens you will find in the Taronaki Fringe Garden Festival are unashamedly honest and real, and each garden tells an impressive story of passion, energy and effort. We offer a large variety of gardens that range from those that are picture perfect to those that are practical and achievable. This spectrum of gardens are chosen by design. We want you to go away brimming with inspiration and the knowledge that you too can create your own garden of delight regardless of the time, money, or space you have to hand. 

Just as important as the gardens are the gardeners behind them and the Trust seeks to celebrate their passion and achievement. That's why we encourage you to meet the gardeners, share their stories, and learn from their adventures. 

We're committed to keeping things personal, and accessible. Entry to any of our gardens is $2.00, as it was when we started 21 festivals ago. We acknowledge and thank all the supporters, volunteers, gardeners and others at the Fringe who have contributed their time and energy to what we do and to allow us to keep prices at that level. 

We thank you for your support and invite you to discover, share, and enjoy our real gardens for (and by) real people. 

Taranaki Fringe Garden Festival 31 October -9 November 2025 

Real Gardens for Real People 

Check all the gardens out HERE (2025 gardens will be released soon!)

$2 entry fee payable at each garden entrance. No dogs are to be brought through the gardens.

Website: www.taranakigardens.co.nz

Facebook: Facebook.com/TaranakiFringeGardenFestival/

Instagram: Instagram.com/taranakifringegardenfestival/

Overnight parking for Certified Self-Contained Motorhomes and Caravans has been organised with the owners of the below gardens. 

Please contact and make arrangements with the owners of each garden you'd like to stay at in advance to reserve the limited spaces available for overnight parking. No dogs are to be brought through the gardens.

ENVIRONMENTAL PRODUCTS (STRATFORD RURAL) - a Place Of Interest, Pennie Sands,  (06) 764 6133, pennie@envirofor.co.nz  1103 Opunake Road, Stratford.  Parking in the shop carpark, must contact Pennie on arrival as gates are locked at night.

WINDSONG (BELL BLOCK RURAL), Marion & Gavin Struthers 021 134 5293, windsongorchard82@gmail.com, 82 Airport Drive, Bell Block, New Plymouth. Overnight parking in the orchard. 

JUBILANI (HAWERA RURAL), Neda & Greg Howes 027 412 1825, nedjlika@gmail.com, 490 Normanby Road, Okaiawa (8km from SH3 / 4.5km from SH45). Wide roadside verge outside the property on a quiet road.

JERSEY LANE (LEPPERTON RURAL), Faye & Ivan Phipps, 021 161 7245, ivan.faye@xtra.co.nz 651 Mountain Road, SH3A, Lepperton

HIKURANGI (OKATO RURAL), Maureen Brophy 027 452 5583, cape.view@xtra.co.nz 143 Upper Newall Road, Okato.

TARANAKI REGIONAL COUNCIL GARDENS: 

• TUPARE (NEW PLYMOUTH) 0800 736 222, 487 Mangorei Road, New Plymouth. Limited overnight parking - see website for more details on where to park https://www.trc.govt.nz/gardens/tupare Must vacate carpark spot by 9am for garden visitors, maximum is 3 nights. 
• PUKEITI (OAKURA RURAL) 0800 736 222, 2290 Carrington Road, New Plymouth. see website for more details on where to park https://www.trc.govt.nz/gardens/pukeiti Park in upper carpark, maximum is 3 nights. 
• HOLLARD GARDENS (STRATFORD RURAL) 0800 736 222, 1686 Upper Manaia Road, Kaponga. see website for more details on where to park https://www.trc.govt.nz/gardens/hollard-gardens . maximum stay is 3 nights