Nature Park Management in Palmerston North
What you'll learn
The course is the same online course wherever you study from. Its modules:
- 1. Module 1 – Nature Park Management 1
- 2. Module 2 – Nature Park Management 2
Landscaping & horticulture near Palmerston North
Places in and around Palmerston North where you can see this field in action.
Dugald MacKenzie Rose Garden and International Rose Trials (opens in a new tab)
Opened in 1968 in Victoria Esplanade, the garden holds more than 5,000 roses in named beds. It also hosts the New Zealand Rose Society's international rose trials, run with the city council since 1969.
Visitors can compare established cultivars with new trial roses that are assessed across spring, summer and autumn.
Victoria Esplanade camellia collection and conservatory (opens in a new tab)
The Esplanade's camellia collection of more than 1,000 plants was recognised as an International Camellia Garden of Excellence in 2025. The park's conservatory grows tropical plants from Africa, the Americas and Oceania.
A free place to study plant collections, formal beds and mature trees in one 26-hectare park.
Turitea Reserve (opens in a new tab)
A 4,000-hectare council reserve where thousands of traps target possums, rats, stoats and feral cats alongside native plant restoration. Forty toutouwai (North Island robins) were released there in 2021, with Rangitāne as kaitiaki partners.
A local example of large-scale reserve management combining predator control, replanting and species reintroduction.
Te Āpiti Manawatū Gorge Scenic Reserve (opens in a new tab)
A DOC reserve about 12 km from Palmerston North where the Manawatū River cuts through a dividing range. The track passes tawa and podocarp forest and the giant maidenhair fern, which grows only in the Manawatū.
A short drive to see native forest under an active pest-control programme.
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Sources for the local information on this page
- pncc.govt.nz/Parks-recreation/Parks-and-reserves/Victoria-Esplanade
- nzroses.org.nz/nzrs-trials/
- pncc.govt.nz/News-Events/News/Robins-return
- doc.govt.nz/parks-and-recreation/places-to-go/manawatu-whanganui/places/manawatu-gorge-scenic-reserve/
- doc.govt.nz/parks-and-recreation/places-to-go/manawatu-whanganui/places/manawatu-gorge-scenic-reserve/things-to-do/manawatu-gorge-track
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