Features

Colourful garden festivals and horticultural events throughout New Zealand during 2012/2013.

A decade ago, somewhat weary of their Parisian lifestyle and facing their thirties, Carole Zink and Sébastien Michel were looking to extend their horizons when a call from a friend in a distant land inspired a new adventure.

New Zealand’s Taranaki region – on the western edge of the central North Island – is a unique horticultural area that is world renowned for its gardens.

New Zealand’s fascination with the water is hardly surprising given the country’s geographical location and history.

Young New Zealand golfer Lydia Ko has been making headlines around the sporting world since she was a child and, at the tender age of 15, has already rewritten golfing history.

Hokitika’s wild coastal seascape – on New Zealand’s southern West Coast – serves up the inspiration for an outdoor sculpture exhibition that takes over the local beach each summer.

Christchurch – the ‘Garden City’ – blooms brighter than ever each March when the Ellerslie International Flower Show opens its gates to reveal a hotbed of green-fingered creativity, Kiwi innovation and garden style.

With the arrival of autumn in New Zealand, the temperature has settled and the landscape is a perfect picture of startling golds and warm reds, making it the ideal time for international tourists

Cape Kidnappers golf course on the east coast of New Zealand’s North Island has been rated among the best in the world and ahead of some of golfing’s most famous old world destinations.

New Zealand offers a range of golfing experiences which include breath-taking scenery, thermal activity, new resort style golf and the challenge of championship courses.