Waipahihi Botanical Reserve

Waipahihi Botanical Reserve Waipahihi Botanical Reserve is the jewel in the crown of Taupō.

As you walk the many paths, you will find beautiful NZ native trees, over 2000 rhododendrons, azaleas and camellias, and other exotic trees and shrubs

Music in the Gardens 2025 - beautiful day, beautiful music - the Taupo Youth Band, combined Concert and Brass bands, Bli...
10/03/2025

Music in the Gardens 2025 - beautiful day, beautiful music - the Taupo Youth Band, combined Concert and Brass bands, Bliss - songs from Jo and Steve Paull, Taupo String Orchestra, and two bagpipers.
Added colour from Kids Greening Taupo, Community Gardens, plant sale, sausage sizzle.
Lots of colour, fun and great music.
Thanks to all performers from the Waipahihi Botanical Society.

Happy new year! We volunteers are back on deck cleaing away wind debris. Have you seen the snake in our Gardens? The nam...
09/01/2025

Happy new year! We volunteers are back on deck cleaing away wind debris. Have you seen the snake in our Gardens? The name of this unusual beauty is Noodle and the idea is to bring a painted stone and add it to the long, snakey line on the Link Track. How many stones are there so far? Latest count - 690. Beat that!

These beauties are on view in the Gardens at the moment - Lilium gigantium, an unidentified native orchid, the sputnik-l...
08/12/2024

These beauties are on view in the Gardens at the moment - Lilium gigantium, an unidentified native orchid, the sputnik-like flower of Knightia excelsa (rewarewa) and the dogwood on Hyde Ave - Cornus kousa chinensis.

Overstayers or latecomers? There is still a lot of rhododendron colour in the Gardens.
01/12/2024

Overstayers or latecomers? There is still a lot of rhododendron colour in the Gardens.

Woohoo! The Spring Fling! We locals are here too - quiet, unassuming - not like those flashy exotics. Look out for us!
25/10/2024

Woohoo! The Spring Fling! We locals are here too - quiet, unassuming - not like those flashy exotics. Look out for us!

A spring fling? We made it! We're here!
21/10/2024

A spring fling? We made it! We're here!

Kiwi gold!
05/10/2024

Kiwi gold!

With Kids Greening Taupo – we just got recognised as one of their top fans! 🎉
03/10/2024

With Kids Greening Taupo – we just got recognised as one of their top fans! 🎉

One day in early October - rain, which we badly needed in the Gardens.
03/10/2024

One day in early October - rain, which we badly needed in the Gardens.

WOW! A spring fling? We'll be with you. We're just getting ready ....
11/09/2024

WOW! A spring fling? We'll be with you. We're just getting ready ....

OK! OK !OK! We're here! More coming!
26/08/2024

OK! OK !OK! We're here! More coming!

Well, it's been a while since we were in touch. It was great to have a few splashes last week - we needed them. This i...
23/08/2024

Well, it's been a while since we were in touch. It was great to have a few splashes last week - we needed them. This is just to say - we have arrived and more of our mates are arriving each day. Spring is not far away .... PARTY! PARTY! PARTY!

A fascinating seldom-seen visitor to the reserve, the usually nocturnal Ruru or Morepork
29/07/2024

A fascinating seldom-seen visitor to the reserve, the usually nocturnal Ruru or Morepork

Seen about recently .....The irrigators at workYoung tree shining in the afternoon sunThe flax patch - gleaming - so be...
16/07/2024

Seen about recently .....
The irrigators at work
Young tree shining in the afternoon sun
The flax patch - gleaming - so beautifully pruned and managed
Men chatting
The planting they had done
Yet more fungi
Graeme and the aerial roots of a pohutakawa

Just so you know - a weasel is weasily recognised while a stoat is stoatally different!
20/06/2024

Just so you know - a weasel is weasily recognised while a stoat is stoatally different!

We were there at the Greening Taupo planting day on Friday 7 June - adding to the colour of the day. School children fro...
20/06/2024

We were there at the Greening Taupo planting day on Friday 7 June - adding to the colour of the day. School children from all round the district were bussed in to plant 3,000 trees on the Taupo golf course. Big effort. Big crowd. Venison sausages. Music, Fun.
We had dead things (rats, mouse, weasel, possum) on display on the back of Hugh's truck - a highlight of the day, no doubt! Notice our new signboards.

Seen around today ... fungi, for the beady-eyed.
06/06/2024

Seen around today ... fungi, for the beady-eyed.

06/06/2024

Tomorrow, Friday 7 June - Greening Taupo is painting the town GREEN ... again!

From 9am until about midday, 3,000 native plants will be planted by the pupils of local schools on part of the Taupo Golf Course. The entrance is on Tauhara Road, opposite the BP station.

There will be more than 35 exhibitors present, including Mynoke, Tongariro Trout Centre, Mitre 10 Mega, Epro, Wingspan, Trees for Survival, Bug Hunt, the Moths and Butterflies Trust of NZ, Didymo Dave, the Taupo Fire Brigade ....... and the Waipahihi Botanical Society.

Come and help, saunter around the exhibitors or just study the action.

Address

Cnr Shepherd Road And Hyde Avenue
Taupo
3330

Opening Hours

Monday 8:30am - 8pm
Tuesday 8:30am - 8pm
Wednesday 8:30am - 8pm
Thursday 8:30am - 8pm
Friday 8:30am - 8pm
Saturday 8:30am - 8pm
Sunday 8:30am - 8pm

Telephone

+64277485642

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