Heritage Gardens

The Heritage Gardens at the Howick Historical Village complement the buildings. Early settlers initially planted potatoes, vegetables, wheat, oats and Indian corn.

They smoked clay pipes and chewed rum flavoured tobacco while at work. They generally grew their own tobacco.

The Village's 1860s period gardens are well established with the settler's favourite flowers from Ireland or England. Hollyhocks, delphiniums, nasturtiums, poppies, sweet peas, forget-me-nots, honesty (lunaria), foxgloves, yarrow, mallow, daisies grow in profusion.

In the orchards are old varieties of peaches, apples, pears, plums, loquats, quince and figs, often quite different from modern fruits. 19th Century vegetables such as kumikumis, black potatoes, English marrows, mangles, beet, pumpkins are grown according to the season.