Day Tours

Tai Tapu Garden Tour & Fete

Day Tours

Enjoy a relaxed day in rural Tai Tapu with five beautiful local gardens Sunday 11 November $120 includes: coach travel, morning tea, garden tour ticket, boxed lunch at the Tai Tapu School & CHS Tour Guide Frensham Garden Lovingly developed over the past 24 years, with a serious plant collection including some rare species, this … Read More

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Day Tours

Seasonal garden visits with CHS Members – Spring, Summer, Autumn or Winter What’s your Style?
Are you a gardener with a favourite season? Would you be happy to show off your seasonal style to a small group of CHS members? Click here to find out more.

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Proud to Celebrate 160 Years

Contact Us

Tel: (03) 366 6937
Mob: 021 056 7712
E: office@chsgardens.co.nz

PO Box 369
Christchurch 8014

Gardening Questions?
Visit us at the Kiosk
Every day 10am – 4pm
One-to-one gardening advice and inspiration, run by volunteers of the Friends of the Botanic Gardens and CHS

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Christchurch Botanic Gardens
(Just over the footbridge by the Armagh Street carpark)

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Our Membership

The Society's membership extends throughout New Zealand and overseas and its comprehensive programme includes garden and native garden awards, a National Garden Register of open gardens to visit, education courses, touring programmes including walking groups and providing advice to gardeners. The Society also has a number of specialist circles, over fifty Garden Clubs and many affiliated groups. The Canterbury Horticultural Society Incorporated is a registered charity in New Zealand.

Awards

The CHS won two Gold awards at the 2014 Ellerslie Flower Show for its Grandad’s Shed exhibit including one for the lighting and the CHS Begonia Circle won another Gold award for its exhibit in the Hort Galore section.