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Kōrero: Public gardens

Begonia House, Wellington Botanic Garden

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Begonia House, Wellington Botanic Garden

The main public gardens contain large glasshouses for plants that would not survive in the outdoors. They usually house mass floral displays such as these begonias, shown here in 1944.

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Alexander Turnbull Library

Reference: PICT-000163

Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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Maggy Wassilieff, Public gardens – Types of public garden, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/18806/begonia-house-wellington-botanic-garden (accessed 15 July 2026).

He kōrero nā Maggy Wassilieff, i tāngia i te 1 March 2009.