Trelinnoe Park woodland garden

Welcome to Trelinnoe Park, one of New Zealand's finest woodland gardens situated some 45 minutes drive from Napier. The park’s 30 acres have an exceptionally wide and varied collection of trees, shrubs, perennials and natives. Landscaped woodland paths, wide sweeps of lawns, clipped hedges, hillsides of flowering trees and spectacular vistas make an exceptional garden.

The park is not included on our standard tours, but visits can be organised as a private tour on request.

Founders John and Brian Wills named their piece of land Trelinnoe (pronounced Tree-lin-o ) in memory of a farm in Cornwall where their grandfather grew up before immigrating to New Zealand.
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By the mid sixties, the farm was sufficiently developed to allow some time off for John to express his life interest in gardening. For the rest of their lives John and his wife Fiona steadily developed the garden with continued planting and creative landscaping. Today the park extends to 12ha (30 acres).