Category: Local Events

Spring 2024

Spring is here and the Cherry trees have blossomed.

The weather is getting warmer and it is time to start doing outdoor things. Daylight savings is next weekend.

Why don’t you come up and stay for

There are plenty of other things going on in the Wairarapa – https://wairarapanz.com/collections/spring

We also have a Taxi service available (base rate $3.50 per km) that can also take bikes, so you don’t need to drink and drive. We can drop you (and your bikes) at Martinborough for a visit round the vineyards and then pick you up when you are done. Or if you bring your bikes you might want to ride the Greytown Rail Trail into Greytown for a meal, then get picked up for the way home. Plenty of options.

Spring in the Wairarapa

Spring is a pretty time in the Wairarapa with lots of blossom trees and lots of spring flowers. Carterton is well known for its daffodils with a yearly daffodil festival in early September each year.

This year there were plenty of daffodils on display at Middle Run daffodil farm and you could purchase bunches from the farm with proceeds going to support Plunket and St John. Entry to the farm is free, but the daffodils were $4 per bunch this year.

Carterton is a 15 minute drive from our place and there is a fee bus out to the daffodil farm and a fair in town on the festival day.

At the end of September/beginning of October come the Tulips at Longbush Cottage. This is 25 minute drive from our place, but worth the drive. Entry to the Tulip festival was $10 this year (payable by cash or internet banking) and there are pots of Tulips available to purchase.