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Story: Trees in the rural landscape

Eastwoodhill

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Eastwoodhill

New Zealand’s largest collection of northern hemisphere trees was established on a hill country sheep station near Gisborne. The 150-hectare collection of trees is now managed as the national arboretum of New Zealand.

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Eastwoodhill Arboretum

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Maggy Wassilieff, Trees in the rural landscape – Ornamental plantings, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/19713/eastwoodhill (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Maggy Wassilieff, published 1 March 2009.