The 2026 Public Planting days will be on:
Sunday 7 June 2026,
Sunday 5 July 2026, and
Sunday 2 August 2026.
The 2025 Public Planting days will be on: Sunday 1 June 2025, Sunday 6 July 2025, and 3 August 2025. Even if you have been before, please read the info below to ensure you follow the parks protocols. Timings: Start time – 9am Finish 12.30pm Followed by lunch Where: 1181 Read more…
Public planting days have been held at Tāwharanui Regional Park for many years. Prior to the onsite nursery being established in 2007, plants were sourced from other nurseries. For a couple of years this included plants grown at Pāremoremo Prison and delivered to the Park on the back of cattle Read more…
2020 was a difficult year for planting. The June planting had to be cancelled due to COVID-19 restrictions. However, we made up for it with a record in July and with 202 volunteers we managed to plant more than 7,000 plants. With only one more public planting day in August Read more…
Thanks to all those who helped at the 2019 Planting Days 4th June : 168 volunteers – 5,208 plants 7th July : 215 volunteers – 4,393 plants 4th August : 146 volunteers – 5,440 plants Corporates and Nursery Team – 742 plants