Eastwoodhill Arboretum

Eastwoodhill is the countrywide arboretum of New Zealand. It covers 131 hectares and is placed 35 km northwest of Gisborne, within the hill usa of Ngatapa. It changed into based in 1910 with the aid of William Douglas Cook. Cook's existence work might grow to be the creation of a large series of Northern Hemisphere temperate climate quarter bushes in New Zealand – a dream that would in the end fee him all his money – buying and importing heaps of timber from New Zealand and British nurseries. When his health deteriorated in the 1916 he offered his property to H. B. Bill Williams, who established the Eastwoodhill Trust Board in 1975 as a charitable accept as true with, donating the arboretum to the believe to shield it for destiny generations. Of all the arboreta of the Southern Hemisphere, Eastwoodhill Arboretum is said to have the largest collection of bushes of the temperate weather sector of the Northern Hemisphere.

It consists of some 4,000 distinctive timber, shrubs and climbers, which includes a 100and 70 species currently on the IUCN global endangered species list. The records of Eastwoodhill Arboretum will continue to be completely connected with the existence of William Douglas Cook 1884–1967. Douglas Cook, Cookie to his near friends, was born 28 October 1884 at New Plymouth, New Zealand. In 1910, he mounted a farm of 250 hectares in the Ngatapa agreement, calling the property 'Eastwoodhill', after his mom's circle of relatives domestic in Thornliebank close to Glasgow. The first foundations for the prevailing arboretum had been laid then. Douglas Cook started developing a lawn without delay. He planted timber, however also roses, flora, shrubs and greens.