The Botanical Garden is in a natural open bowl with a stage at the center of a grassy slope. The walkways go up and around the hillside planted with trees and flowering bushes. A stream flows down the hillside to a pond at the bottom. The original cemetery for the town is on the hill on one side of the Gardens and is filled with many European pioneers. The quail on top of the obelisk is real and flew off after I got the picture!

Some Art Deco motifs found around town. Maori design was incorporated in some design like the ceiling of the bank.