Gina's Garden is a small flower farm and pick-your-own garden at 12 Fairfield Street in Brightwater, Nelson. Visitors wander the seasonal flower beds with their own snips, and pick flowers to make a bouquet to take home. The garden grows dahlias, zinnias, cosmos, celosia, sunflowers, strawflowers, amaranthus, asters and snapdragons, all grown from seed or tubers. Which flowers are in bloom changes through the season, and there are no rules about colours or varieties.
Sessions run for 90 minutes. Visitors choose a small jar, a large jar or a bucket to fill. The website says pick-your-own sessions run through summer and autumn. Recent news: the garden opens for pick-your-own flowers in December 2026.
Visitors who have written about the garden say the flowers were beautiful and well set out, and that the grower was a lovely host. One visitor picked enough flowers for two bouquets. Another spent a picnic afternoon there for an anniversary.
Our pick in Brightwater for a summer afternoon picking your own bouquet.