6-Week Course

Flora and Fauna Workshop (Native Plants & Threats)

Birdwoods Gallery

Hawkes Bay

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18 Jun 2026, 10:00am–12:00pm

Thursday, 10:00am to 12:00pm

$85 per person

This is a workshop with Marie Taylor on Native Plants and their threats

Date: Thursday 18th June

Time & Format:

The course will start at 10am, with a coffee and tea break followed by a lively facilitated discussion to answer all your curious questions. The course will finish at 12pm each week.

Location: We are delighted to be hosting at Birdwoods Gallery, 298 Middle Road, Havelock North, Hawke’s Bay

About the expert

Marie Taylor

Marie was previously a rural journalist and then worked part-time as a QEII regional representative from 1992 until 2007 in the Nelson-Marlborough, West Coast and Hawke’s Bay regions.

Marie covenanted her lifestyle block at Bayview, Napier to protect pits and middens on the property, prevent subdivision, and protect indigenous restoration plantings on the site. She currently chairs New Zealand Plant Producers Inc, the nursery industry body, and the Hawke’s Bay Botanical Group, and is a trustee on The Gwavas – Puahanui Charitable Trust.

In 2018, Marie won the NZI Rural Women New Zealand Business Awards supreme award and in 2020 was awarded a QSM for horticulture and native revegetation. Marie set up and jointly owns Plant Hawke’s Bay, a native plant nursery growing ecosourced wholesale native plants near Napier.