Welcome to Gina’s Garden
Pick your own summer flowers in Brightwater, Nelson
A seasonal flower garden where you can wander, pick your own beautiful blooms and create a bouquet to take home.
Growing garden flowers for you to pick!
Welcome to Gina’s Garden, a small scale flower farm and pick-your-own flower garden in Brightwater, Nelson Tasman.
From early summer through to autumn, the garden comes alive with colourful dahlias, zinnias, cosmos, celosia, sunflowers and a whole lot of other seasonal blooms, all grown here from seed or tubers.
Come and slow down, wander the garden, choose your favourite flowers and enjoy the simple pleasure of picking your own bouquet.
Pick flowers, make memories
There's something special about picking your own flowers.
Take a pair of snips, wander through the garden and choose the colours, shapes and flowers that catch your eye. You don't need to know anything about flowers or arranging. Just pick what you love.
Whether you're creating a bouquet for your kitchen table, gathering flowers for someone special or simply enjoying an afternoon in the garden, a visit to Gina's Garden is about slowing down and enjoying the season.
Our Pick Your Own sessions run throughout the summer and autumn, with different flowers coming into bloom as the season progresses.
Experience the joy of picking your own fresh flowers
Summer flowers are our specialty
From the first blooms of summer through to the end of the season, Gina's Garden is filled with flowers grown especially for picking.
Our summer garden is packed with colour, texture and variety, with dahlias, zinnias, cosmos, celosia, sunflowers, strawflowers, amaranthus, asters, snapdragons and many more seasonal favourites.
We grow a constantly changing mix of varieties, so every visit to the garden is a little different.
Pick your own flowers
Choose your jar, wander through the garden and pick a bouquet of beautiful seasonal flowers to take home.
Our Pick Your Own sessions are a chance to slow down, enjoy the garden and create something completely your own.
You'll have 90 minutes to explore the flower beds with a pair of snips and fill your chosen jar or bucket with the flowers you love. There are no rules about what colours or varieties to choose. Pick the flowers that catch your eye and make a bouquet that is uniquely yours.
From bright summer dahlias and zinnias to delicate cosmos, textural celosia and plenty of flowers in between, what's available changes throughout the season.
Choose your size
Small Jar: A beautiful bunch to brighten your home.
Large Jar: More flowers and more variety for a generous bouquet.
Bucket: For serious flower picking, with plenty to take home or share.
PYO sessions run throughout the summer and autumn. Flower availability varies with the season and what's blooming in the garden.
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The best experience picking flowers here! Such a wide range & colours for everyone. Had an absolute blast doing this. Managed to get enough to make two different bouquets of flowers.
Jade
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Absolutely loved my Pick your own session! So many beautiful fresh flowers to choose from!. It's really well set out and Gina is such a lovely host 💛
Jayne
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An absolutely beautiful way to spend a few hours. Stunning flowers and a lovely owner! Thoroughly enjoyed weaving through the aisles, taking in the wee patch of paradise.
Jinaya
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I’ve loved watching Gina’s Garden develop over the last year and enjoy making numerous arrangements from her beautiful flowers. We enjoyed a picnic and flower picking for our wedding anniversary recently.
Rachel
Meet Gina
Hi! I'm Gina, the grower behind Gina's Garden.
What started as a love of growing flowers has grown into a flower farm where people can come and enjoy the garden for themselves.
I love growing flowers from seed, trying new varieties and filling the garden with as much colour, texture and seasonal interest as possible. But my favourite part is sharing it with other people.
Whether you're picking your first bunch of flowers, learning something new at a workshop or simply wandering through the garden, I hope you leave feeling inspired to grow a few more flowers of your own.
Growing with nature
We believe beautiful flowers start with healthy soil.
At Gina's Garden, we're continually learning how to grow flowers in ways that work with nature rather than against it. We focus on building healthy soil, growing many of our flowers from seed, composting and reusing materials wherever we can. This year, we're also collecting rainwater to help irrigate the garden and reduce our reliance on mains water.
We encourage beneficial insects and pollinators, use integrated pest management and choose growing methods that help us look after the garden for the seasons ahead.
We're not perfect, and we're always learning. But every year we look for ways to grow better, waste less and leave the soil healthier than we found it.
