Iranui Garden

10/18/2026

Flowers and fruit are best friends. Fruit trees do better when under-planted with flowers for pollinators. 💚

10/16/2026

Ring in the 2026 Christmas season by joining us in the garden on Sunday, 6 December from 4-8pm for Christmas at Iranui Garden. 🎄

Tickets include:

Festive Self-Guided Garden Tour through the sustainably decorated one acre garden. Feel free to pack a picnic or simply sit around the fire pit and relax.

A visit to the Christmas Craft Hollow with gifts, ornaments, and other seasonal fare for sale

Seasonal Refreshments

Festive add-ons to make the evening more special:

Decorate your own Christmas wreath or yuletide-inspired swag with fresh, seasonal greenery and flowers from the garden. Wreath bases are premade from grapevine grown at Iranui Garden. We’ll be on hand to help with assembly if needed.

Christmas ornament creation station - Kids of all ages will enjoy crafting sustainable, beautiful ornaments to decorate their own trees.

For the very first time, we will also have a limited amount of homegrown Christmas trees ready to harvest. Have a look around the trees, and take one home when you go! Trees are available on a first come-first served basis and are not available for pre-order.

Grab your tickets here! https://events.humanitix.com/christmas-at-iranui-garden

10/15/2026

Afternoon light in the spring cutting garden.

10/10/2026

10/05/2026

Everything is very green around the garden, and we are almost ready for this weekend’s workshop! Orchard flowers are blooming, pumpkin rows are layered, and the paths through Christmas Valley are freshly mowed.

10/02/2026

My first no-dig bed at Iranui Garden was a simple herb garden under the dappled shade of my cherry tree. The ground was hard clay, and I didn’t have much to layer, so I cut the grass short, laid cardboard down, piled grass on top, watered it all, and let nature do its thing. Herbs were tucked in with compost blankets, and to my surprise, it all flourished. The soil is now black and crumbly, and the herbs still grow - a testament to how well this method works.

Since then, I’ve made countless no-dig beds in lots of different areas and for lots of different kinds of plants, veggies, and flowers using a very similar method of layering browns and greens. At my upcoming course, we will look into this method, why it works, and how it can work in your own garden.

If you’re close to Pahiatua or within driving distance, please join us by grabbing tickets at the link in my profile.

10/02/2026

Sometimes flowers sell, sometimes they don’t, and either way, sometimes it’s hard to know why. This tulip posy had no takers this week, and so I was the lucky girl who gifted flowers to herself.

09/30/2026

Sometimes the afternoon light hits just right, and the garden feels like it’s the only place I’m meant to be. This week I’m working on getting things in order for summer while I thankfully have a moment off. Today I’ve been layering my pumpkin patch rows, mulching my veggie gardens, clearing out extra limbs, and mowing, mowing, mowing. I’ll be inviting people into my garden next weekend for this year’s permaculture course, and I can’t wait to chat about what my partner and I have done the past five years and how we keep things growing. There are still so many things we want to do here, but I’m pretty proud to have a place that feels just right on evenings like this one. Derrick Sims

09/27/2026

It’s been a busy week for the homegrown tulips! The sweetest little grab and go tulip posies are topped up for the week Tonic Coffee 💐

06/21/2026

so much depends
upon

a red wheel
barrow

glazed with rain
water

beside the white
chickens.