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Taranaki Rhododendron & Garden Festival

Audio Visual garden installation to open for Taranaki Rhododendron & Garden Festival

A multi-media audio visual garden experience projected onto a hexagonal set of screens will be a virtual walk-in Taranaki garden experience in this year’s Taranaki Rhododendron & Garden Festival.

Being constructed on the second floor of Centre City in downtown New Plymouth, the audio visual experience has taken more than two months to design by media design firm, Inc Creative and will be launched on Thursday, October 29, for the 10-day festival running from October 30 to November 8.

About 10 metres in diameter, the installation will feature stunning video sequences of Taranaki gardens, photographic images as well as a superb sound track, says Inc Creative’s director, Kai Teng Lim.

“We want to bring the beautiful spaces and elements of Taranaki gardens to people in the city,” says Mr. Lim.

“It will be a visual symphony to an original sound track creating a unique virtual garden experience that will be seen for the first time in Taranaki and possibly in New Zealand.”

This multi-media installation will be the fifth conceptual landscape design installation by a leading New Zealand or international landscape architect to feature in the Festival, says Festival manager, Lisa Ekdahl.

“The landscape design installation has enabled visitors to experience a totally wild and different garden experience each year—and this year’s installation will be another completely unique experience,” explains Lisa.

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Now in its 22nd year, the 10-day Taranaki Rhododendron & Garden Festival features 14 Gardens of Significance in its collection of more than 50 stunning private and public gardens open to visitors right around Taranaki.

The Festival also has a great line up of guest speakers including Professor Guan Kaiyun—one of China’s leading botanists and Rhododendron experts. The guest lineup also includes Good Morning floral designer, Astar, former gardening TV show presenter Maggie Barry, and locals Tony Barnes, Jenny Oakley, Greg Rine, Mark and Abbie Jury, Dee Turner, Mitch Graham and Yvonne Brunton all speaking on their areas of plant and gardening expertise.

In addition to the guest speaker line up, there are a number of guided walks through some of Taranaki’s unique gardens including the Pukekura Park fernery, Pukeiti, Tupare’s house and garden, Hollards Garden, and the Stepping Stones and Duncan & Davies Nurseries guided tour of its large nursery where visitors will view production fields of Japanese Maples, Magnolias and Hamamelis.

And in a novel way to experience gardens in South Taranaki, a heritage steam train that is bringing visitors to the Taranaki Rhododendron and Garden Festival from Wellington is set to also do a day trip on Saturday 31st October.

Organised by Kiwi Tours, this journey from New Plymouth to Hawera provides the opportunity for locals to enjoy the ambience of an historic steam train journey and visit nine festival gardens in the Hawera region.

The train will leave New Plymouth at 8.30am - arriving in Hawera at 10am. Buses will then ferry participants around nine gardens located in and around Hawera. Passengers will board the train in Stratford for the return trip at 1.50pm. An afternoon Devonshire tea break at 2.30pm at the historic train station in Inglewood is covered in the ticket price. Boxed lunches can be ordered when people book tickets, or, they are welcome to bring their own refreshments.

Tickets range in price from $110 - $150 per person including garden visits. Maximum capacity for the trip is 200 people and tickets are on sale now though Kiwi Tours.

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