Wellington Botantical Garden

New Zealand does a great job of fitting something huge into a small space. These gardens cover a long hillside, but they have the pathways zigzag back and forth, and you have the illusion that you are away from the city noise and traffic, and most of the people in the gardens. I'll just post several photos, so you can get the feel of it. Maybe a couple of comments. Fit tracker shows we climbed 19 floors.  The whole of Wellington is steep hillsides.

The rose is the size of a saucer.

Incredible rose garden

 

Big ferns are like trees.

 

Hydrangea with incredible color 

Blacktree ferns

Trees are beyond enormous

Monkey puzzle tree

Beautiful Wellington 

First observatory in New Zealand 1907.  Old buildings are most often still in use here.

A sculpture with a Tui bird meeting

In the greenhouse

 

Tillandsia or more commonly known as Air Plant.  This one is also called Spanish Moss

 

Mike's photo--Toyota Land Cruiser Ute Body...

Wellington on a good day is gorgeous!!