Festival Updates
With less than two weeks to go we are super excited and hope you are too!! There are few updates to note: Garden 57 Tuhua View: Om Nom Food Truck available. Garden 62 Marybank: Has no wheelchair access. Garden 63...
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Shared or Private Bus Shuttle service
Jump on the official Garden & Art Festival shuttle and take the hassle out of your festival experience.
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E-Bike Hire and Bike Shuttle service
Bring your own bike or hire a DayTripper electric bike then grab a shuttle pass to unlock the array of spectacular cycle trails on offer.
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🌱Mark it in your calenders now folks! 🐞
Time flies and it'll be 2022 before you know it.
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🐝🌾Are you a green-thumbed gardener that would love to share your garden with our community? 🐞
We look forward to hearing from you, get in touch with us for 2022 www.gardenandartfestival.co.nz/ ... See MoreSee Less
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👉🗣Calling all artists, creatives, glass blowers, potters and sculptures! This could be you.
If you want to get your unique creations in front of thousands of buyers from all over NZ then get in touch so you can exhibit for the 2022 Festival.
🤝Let's do this together, apply here: www.gardenandartfestival.co.nz/ ... See MoreSee Less
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Moana Bianchin hello! I saw Pete’s stunning Ohauiti Hills series, he should be showing these off! What about showing them at the festival?? I hope all good with you xxx
So loved this Festival last year. Can’t believe how the year is flying past. 🌺
Michelle Judge
Yes it certainly does look like you 😀
Looking good ladies...🥰
Fleur McCarroll umm this is us in the pic!
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👉Save the Date for 2022!
🙌Start gathering your friends and mark it in your calenders for 17-20 November 2022.
If you are an artist or a gardener and fancy getting on board then apply now, we'd love to hear from you! www.gardenandartfestival.co.nz/ ... See MoreSee Less
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👉Save the date for this amazing Art Expo Tauranga Society of Artists!😍 ... See MoreSee Less
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Thanks for the share!
🍓🍓🍓If you want to be decorating your pav with strawberries at Christmas wow is the time to get your strawberries planted!
Prepare the soil with some compost and find your sunniest spot. 😍
A good rule of thumb is to plant 5 for each person in your home or maybe a few extra if you're strawberry loves like us! 😍
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🍃🌤Spring is in the air!
We've spotted our first daffodils and it's such a joy! 😍
📸We've love to see a shot of your "essence of spring" tag us so we can share the brightness around. ... See MoreSee Less
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🌱Composting is amazing! You can turn your food scraps, coffee grinds, leaves, cardboard into yummy food that will help your plants thrive. It is so satisfying!
🙌Lockdown is a great time to start your own compost at home! If you live in Tauranga you'll have your food scraps in your bin (that aren't getting picked up right now). So get into it!
👉Here are some great tips from Tui Garden Products. Are you going to give it a go? 🐞 ... See MoreSee Less
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Post lockdown must-do!
💐Who would LOVE to go to a pick your own flower farm!? Sounds like a dream come true right?
We are so excited for this to open in December: Miss Mandys Flower Emporium . The old orchid shadehouses have been repurposed to grow summer garden flowers for you to pick and a small event space to host flower picking christmas staff parties and other things like bookclubs.
Get in touch now missmandysflowers@gmail.com ✨🌈 ... See MoreSee Less
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Wow what a fabulous initiative. ♥️
Love this idea, I agree Fiona Benny
👉Can you imagine your art on display here? In our Festival Gallery at the Festival Hub. Each artist gets to display a piece where people flock to buy their next piece!
Add your talents by exhibiting your art. We are looking for amazing local and national artists to be part of the 2022 Bay of Plenty Garden & Art Festival. 🙌
We'd love to hear from you, enter here: www.gardenandartfestival.co.nz/artist-registration-expression-of-interest/ ... See MoreSee Less
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Angela McKenzie , 🥰
😍Are you a rose-lover? Last year the rose-obsessed made a bee-line for Helen and Barry Green's! They have the most incredible selection of unique roses.
Now is the time to plant new roses giving them lots of compost and fertiliser.🌹🌹🌹
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🐝For beautiful bursts of colour in your garden plant your favourite flowers like Poppy, Voila, Carnations and Hollyhock.
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Just planted this evening before it became too dark: 3 x red mānuka, 3 x pink mānuka, 3 x kawakawa and another native I've forgotten the name of....
Thinking of sunflowers soon