Healing Gardens Project

This project aims to provide a series of therapeutic garden settings in and around the hospital. The North Shore site now hosts six specially designed gardens, and a trilogy of memorial rose gardens.

Plants are underway for other areas to be made into these future garden sites including areas around our mental health facilities, older adult wards and the hospital entrance. The Diabetes Garden

The Oriental Garden

The Oriental Garden already established and planted in true Feng Sui manner was provided by the local Asian community and is enjoyed by staff and patients alike.

The Mediterranean Garden

The Mediterranean Garden is installed next to the Therapeutics Gym and features olive trees, herbs and other plants with Mediterranean flavour, sculptures from Mega Greca and terracotta garden ornaments from Morris and James Pottery and Tileworks. Seating is provided with large forest green umbrellas for shading and brightly striped awning for this sunny area. Special surfaces, ramps and corners are featured here as this is an area where consumers learn to walk and negotiate different surfaces and angles after stroke or serious illness.

The Oasis garden is located on the second floor exterior rooftop level. An enclosed courtyard, is designed for new mothers and their families to enjoy. It is decorated with beautifully designed light weight pots, plants, garden seating and tables from Stone Art Ltd. The Mediterranean garden and the Oasis garden have been made possible through the generosity of the Lion Foundation and Valentines Restaurant North Shore.

The Oasis Garden

Peaceful Garden "Wai Marama" The latest garden under construction is a centennial project by The Rotary Club of East Coast Bays. This project to provide a beautiful garden space for the public at the hospital is to mark 100 years of Rotary service internationally. The garden is placed at the main entrance to the hospital designed in the shape of a Nautilus shell with an internal koru design; it features fragrant, evergreen and non toxic plantings. Carefully designed seating forums provide privacy and places of respite, some covered with sails and some open to the sky. The centre piece of the garden is a water feature designed and donated by Morris and James potteries and tile makers of Matakana. The garden design was specially created to allow all the patients to view its form from the hospital windows above. The garden, a gift from East Coast Bays Rotary Club, was officially opened by His Excellency, The Governor General of NZ, The Honorable Anand Satyanand. PCNZM, QSO