Your Guide to the Hidden Wonders of Hamilton Gardens

If you’re a tourist or a citizen of New Zealand, then this is your invitation to experience the 18 wonders of the Hamilton Gardens. A public park known for its unique and remarkable garden enclosures.

Enclosed gardens are described as gardens with walls, hedges, or barriers to create a private space for plants or structures for agriculture or art. In the Hamilton Gardens enclosures, the plants and structures portray different countries cultures, and time periods.

Hamilton Gardens has 18 garden enclosures depicting art, culture and time periods including Italian Renaissance, Ancient Egypt and Victorian England.

Hamilton Gardens marketing executive, Amber Oyen, gave some some insight into Hamilton Garden enclosures. She said the Surrealist Garden, based off the story Alice and Wonderland, is their most popular enclosure. This large enclosure boggles the minds of its visitors through its abnormally large plants, door, garden tools and warped surroundings.

One of Amber’s favourite enclosures is the Indian Char Bagh Garden which she said is like a “whole other world when entering”. Amber said it’s “replanted three times a year, so it looks different depending on the season, and flowers planted”. The enclosure is inspired by Eden’s four rivers of paradise, and its private pleasure gardens filled with abundant perfumed flowers, planted like a living Persian carpet.

Each garden enclosure is unique in its plants and structures, bringing in hundreds of visitors every day. These visitors are usually locals living close, or Hamilton citizens. But a number of Hamilton Gardens visitors are tourists from outside the city or outside of New Zealand.

And although the Hamilton Gardens main attraction are the enclosures, Amber Oyen said there’s 40 hectares of outer sector surrounding the Gardens. That’s 400,000 square meters of land owned by the Hamilton Gardens, and is full of walkways, playgrounds, and small enclosures for its visitors to discover.

When asking Amber what she though made the Hamilton Gardens special, her response was its “Uniqueness makes it special. There’s nowhere else in the world where you can see 18 different gardens that travel time, cultures, and history”.

The gardens team continue to expand, redevelop the area and add more enclosure with three new gardens underway currently; a Pasifika Garden, Medieval Garden, and Baroque Garden.

So, with all these new developments you should definitely visit the Hamilton Gardens. Whether you’re new to the experience or haven’t been there in a while, you can discover something new and witness its expansion over time as the Hamilton Gardens grows.