Ōtari-Wilton’s Bush Trust / September 2024
New Zealand’s only botanic garden dedicated solely to native plants, and one hundred hectares of ancient and regenerating forest, all of it just a few kilometres from Wellington’s CBD. Ōtari-Wilton’s Bush is designated a six-star Garden of International Significance by the New Zealand’s Gardens Trust of the Royal New Zealand Institute of Horticulture.
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Want to be a Wikipedia writer?
- Ōtari-Wilton’s Bush Trust
- Did you know that anyone can be a Wikipedia writer, or photographer? If you’d like to learn how, with a focus on New Zealand species, there’s a chance coming soon at Ōtari-Wilton’s Bush. A Wikipedia ‘New Zealand species edit-a-thon’ is being run this month at Ōtari and anyone can register. The event will be hosted by Heidi Meudt, Botany Curator at Te Papa, Siobhan Leachman, Wikimedia Laureate 2023, and Christine Richardson, with support from Wikimedia Aotearoa New Zealand and Wellington Gardens.
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Ōtari-Wilton’s Bush, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Community and plants the stars of a great Open Day
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- Community and plants were the obvious themes at the annual Ōtari Open Day, on September 14. Plant sales were hugely popular – this was the first Open Day that all the plants on sale were propagated from the Ōtari collections in the Trust’s own nursery, thanks to the huge efforts of Jane Humble, Lynley Trower and other volunteers, supported by Ōtari garden staff. Ōtari gardeners and expert Behind the scenes, Ōtari Nursery tour Behind the scenes, Ōtari Nursery tour botanists were on hand to advise those keen to spread the native plant love into their home gardens. Others took the chance for a tour of the special plants being raised in the Ōtari Nursery.
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Ōtari-Wilton’s Bush, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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