Members of the Pukeiti Rhododendron Trust Inc enjoy a number of benefits, advantages and privileges. Pukeiti Rhododendron Trust members' activity calendar 2023 These include: Newsletters and the annual Rhododendron journal
Members-only events and plant purchase scheme
Discounts when hiring the studio or booking events at the lodge (conditions apply for new members, check with the Secretary)
Volunteering in the garden and during public events
Full voting rights at the October AGM
New and
the views which included the surfbound coast, North Taranaki and Mt Ruapehu. He was also attracted to the clean and healthy looking rhododendrons which were still thriving despite being in an old and neglected garden. “One walk through is enough,” he said, and that night he located the owner and bought the property. Cook donated the block to the Pukeiti Rhododendron Trust and work soon started on developing the property. The official opening took place on Thursday 1 November 1951, when the gates
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Pukeiti Rhododendron Trust Inc.
NEWSLETTER
February 2021 VOLUME 68 NO.1
www.pukeiti.org.nz
V O L U N T E E R I N G I N T H E G A R D E N & OT H E R M E M B E R AC T I V I T I E S
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Displaying the Vireya collection
Established when Pukeiti was transferred to
the TRC, the Pukeiti Plant Forum has met with
various staff members regularly to address
questions regarding the rhododendron
collection, the placement of plants and other
general items relating to the
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Pukeiti Rhododendron Trust Inc.
NEWSLETTER
Rhododendrons in a Rainforest
February 2022 VOLUME 69 NO.1
www.pukeiti.org.nz
PLANT LIST AND ORDER FORM
VOLUNTEERING IN THE GARDEN & OTHER MEMBER ACTIVITIES
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What a challenging year 2021 was for us all. Pukeiti
Rhododendron Trust was not immune. Cancellations
of Board meetings, the AGM and other planned
activities were necessary because of the various and
changing Covid restrictions. Some members
activities
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Pukeiti Rhododendron Trust Inc.
NEWSLETTER
Rhododendrons in a Rainforest
May 2022 VOLUME 69 NO.2
www.pukeiti.org.nz
The forest at Pukeiti covers 350 hectares. It was
heavily logged in the late 1800s and early 1900s but in
the last 70 years the restoration of the site has been
actively encouraged. Hundreds of rimu have been
planted and many can be seen along the roadside.
Notwithstanding, the forest, botanically a conifer-
broadleaf one has many characteristics of a
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Pukeiti Rhododendron Trust Inc.
NEWSLETTER
Rhododendrons in a Rainforest
September 2023 VOLUME 70 NO.1
www.pukeiti.org.nz
Rhododendron
macgregoriae
Rhododendron macgregoriae is in
full bloom in the Vireya Walk at
Pukeiti and is a magnificent sight.
The species was first collected in 1891
on Mt Yule, New Guinea on an
expedition arranged by a Mr Bedford
(who is given the credit for its
discovery) and was named after Lady
MacGregor, the wife of Sir William
Pukeiti’s unique qualities, and the experience and expertise behind them, have a pivotal national role in a global effort to save threatened rhododendron species from extinction. The heritage property on Mt Taranaki’s western flank is well known as an increasingly popular visitor attraction. But it also a centre of research and propagation in a conservation project led by Massey University and supported by Pukeiti’s owner, the Taranaki Regional Council, as well as the Pukeiti Rhododendron Trust
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Pukeiti Rhododendron Trust Inc.
NEWSLETTER
September 2021 VOLUME 68 NO.3
www.pukeiti.org.nz
V O L U N T E E R I N G I N T H E G A R D E N & OT H E R M E M B E R AC T I V I T I E S
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The visit planned as part of the ‘Soup
and Roll Day’ on August 21 to the Valley
of the Giants to see these great plants,
many over 10 meters tall, tucked into
the native forest , Covid level four
lock-down cancelled. A great pity,
because this year promised to be a
good flowering
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Pukeiti Rhododendron Trust Inc.
NEWSLETTER
www.pukeiti.org.nz
September 2020 VOLUME 67 NO.3
Usually at this time of the year the Members’ Committee
arranges a Soup and Roll Day which includes a guided walk to
see the large leaf-rhododendrons which begin blooming in
late winter. Covid level 2 rules which required groups of no
greater than 100 and social distancing at cafes and restaurants
meant it was prudent to cancel the event. The rhododendrons,
of course, were …
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Pukeiti Rhododendron Trust Inc.
NEWSLETTER
September 2019 VOLUME 68 NO.3
www.pukeiti.org.nz
It is now nine years since the partnership agreement between the Pukeiti
Rhododendron Trust and the Taranaki Regional Council was signed and the
running and ownership of the property was passed to the Regional Council.
The original objectives of the Trust, accepted in full by the TRC, provide the
basis and guiding principles for the further development of Pukeiti.
The TRC