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Auckland's premier designer garden festival is back this November!

Auckland Garden DesignFest 2024 will be held on Saturday 23rd & Sunday 24th November 2024.

And this year's event - the seventh - promises to be even better with the addition of Dove Hospice & Wellness as joint organisers along with Rotary Newmarket and GDSNZ.

The 2022 event was the most successful ever thanks to the generosity of the garden owners, who, along with their designers, created beautiful gardens and opened them to the public and thanks to the ticket purchasers, with whom $60,000 was rasied for deserving charities. The chosen charities for this year's event are Dove Hospice & Wellness, Youthline, Garden to Table, Forest & Bird and Rotary Newmarket.  

​Tickets are now on sale -  choose between an all weekend-all garden pass or a single garden pass.

All Gardens Tickets will be available online via Humanitix or from any Dove Hospice Store.

Penny Cliffin and Anna-Maria Morris are back with a Guided Bus Tour offering - choose to join them for the whole weekend or a single day. But be quick - limited spaces are available.

Want to volunteer? GDSNZ had the support of over 180 volunteers for our 2022 event. Everything from checking tickets outside gardens, providing assistance within the gardens to making afternoon teas for sale in our market area. 

Perhaps you have a professionally designed garden you are particularly proud of that you'd like us to consider showcasing? 

If you'd like to know anything or want to be involved, please contact our Festival Director Deb Hardy by email: info@gardendesignsociety.org.nz.

​Find out more at www.gardendesignfest.co.nz