Ōtari-Wilton's Bush

Otari-Wilton’s Bush offers the unique botanical experience of native New Zealand plant species, hybrids and cultivars from across the country, in one location. Here you can see a range of plants from New Zealand’s mainland and off-shore islands in a series of collections of over 1,200 native plants.

Covering 100 hectares of the Kaiwharawhara Stream catchment, this unique area includes the only remaining original broadleaf-podocarp forest in Wellington City.