Enhanced visitor experience: We've transformed the arrival experience by constructing a brand-new Visitor Centre creating a welcoming entry point to the Enclosed Gardens. Through this, we have also upgraded our venue spaces - all officially opened on 18 September 2024.

Learn more about the significance of history and culture in our design.

Experience the grandeur of European royalty through this dramatic theatrical garden

During the 18th and 19th centuries, European royalty developed dramatic theatrical gardens that included the elements of stage set design.

These gardens weren’t just used for theatrical events, they provided a setting for important people to dress up in expensive clothes and powdered wigs and to be seen. 

This German or Austrian form will feature a Rococo / Baroque façade, large reflecting pool and two sculptural groups. With direct association to classical music, the connection to the arts places this garden' within the Fantasy Collection.

The Baroque Garden is in the fundraising phase. Learn more about how this new garden is tracking and donate below.

Immerse yourself in the vibrant flora of the South Pacific islands

The Pasifika Garden will display plants from the South Pacific islands and their closest equivalents. In the centre, a Samoan Fale Afalau shelter will provide an event or teaching space as well as screen the upper glass structure.

Within a jungle setting productive plants would be grown such as the: yam, talo, ta’amu, sweet potato, arrowroot, sugar cane, ti, paper mulberry, pandanus, taro, banana, breadfruit; possibly the kava and coconut showing their use and cultivation.