Camellia Garden

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About Camellia Garden

Camellia Garden is a garden inside the Auckland Botanic Gardens in The Gardens, Auckland. Its website describes it as the largest collection of camellias in New Zealand, with paths of petals and bright autumn and winter flowers.

The garden is designed in the style of East Asian temple woodlands, with clivias, maples, hellebores in early spring, and a range of camellias suited to hedging, espaliers, containers and fragrance. The collection holds every available Camellia species in New Zealand, and the gardens research a petal blight disease that turns flowers brown. The website also offers a "star performer" list of camellias that grow well in Auckland. Our view is that it is a peaceful garden to walk through in autumn and winter.