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Come and pick your own cut flowers and herbs for cooking and healing - all grown sustainably, following permaculture ethics. How does it work? Just looking?

Drop-in picking on 17 Sharp Road, Matakana. If the shed is not staffed, we work on an honesty system where you help yourself to flowers, or to the ready-made bunches and other seasonal products from our shed, and pay for them by bank transfer to 06-0483-0164754-00 or by cash into our honesty box. You can also pay by card inside Charlies Gelato. Gift cards can be purchased at any time from us or Ch

arlies Gelato. Come for a stroll through the rows of blooms, borrow snips and a bucket or basket, stop to smell the flowers, and cut your own bouquet! Snips are sharp and children are soft, so parents help cut for their kids. Flowers are charged by weight. A mixed bouquet is priced at $10 per 100 grams, which is a little bit more than at the supermarket, and a little bit less than at the florist. Herbs and flower tips (for pressing, cake decorating etc) are priced at $30 per 100 grams. Gift cards are available too, for the perfect zero-waste present. Entry is free with Slow Blooms purchase, i.e. picking or buying a ready made bunch from our honesty stall or dried range. Entry is $5 for adults and $2 for children. What's in a name? Slow Blooms is a play on the Slow Foods and Slow Flowers movement, which values produce grown locally, in their natural season, using sustainable practices - as opposed to flowers grown with the use of harsh chemicals and pesticides, and often flown in from greenhouses in faraway countries, spending days or even weeks in transit before they reach their destination. Slow Blooms to us also means letting good things take time... Going for a mindful stroll and enjoying picking the blooms you love, as opposed to grabbing a plastic-wrapped bunch on the go. How did we get here? In September 2020, we started transforming parts of the grapevines behind Charlies into a flower garden, with the vision to create a special experience for visitors, to pick their own beautiful bouquets and healing herbs for teas, tinctures, and culinary use. How do we grow? Rebecka holds an NZ Certificate in Horticulture, a Permaculture Design Certificate, and is co-founder of the Permaculture Mahurangi group. Our blooms are grown according to earth-friendly permaculture principles - with care for the earth and for our visitors and staff. Volunteers? We are welcoming volunteers who are keen to help and learn in the garden. Send us a message! Any tips?
- On hot summers days, flowers keep longer if they are picked in the mornings and into a bucket of water.
- Pick flowers above a set of leaves.
- Keep feet on the grass, including little feet and paws, and out of the flower beds.
- To make sure your flowers stay fresh for the trip home, you can buy a jar in our shed and fill with water from our buckets. See you in the blooms!

17/09/2025

Growing anything, anywhere – from raised beds to pots – comes down to the soil. Look after yours better with these regenerative agriculture tips.

23/08/2025

This lovely couple picked a kg of flowers today 💐 💐💐

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15/08/2025

First of the snapdragons for the season and lots of other lovely spring blooms and dahlia tubers at 💞

02/08/2025

Must be the season for white freesias 🤍🤍🤍

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26/07/2025

July in the you-pick garden 💚

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10/06/2025

Freshly picked beautiful seasonal bunches at 🌸🌸🌸

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26/05/2025

Autumn harvest 💐

09/05/2025

This Sunday, we celebrate all the incredible women who nurture, support and inspire. To the mums, grandmothers, stepmums, fur-baby mums, mums-to-be, those who hope to become mums, and those remembering loved ones — you are seen, appreciated, and truly valued.

Skip the greenhouse flowers for a seasonal bouquet. Available from all weekend 💐

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05/05/2025

Get mum some mums for Mother’s Day! Chrysanthemums now in season at 🌸 Pick your own, or grab a bunch at at the farmers market on Saturday or at any time! 💐 We’ve so still got plenty of zinnias, sunflowers, amaranth and other beautiful bits and bobs for your bouquets 💞

25/04/2025

What a beautiful Slow Blooms wedding! It was a pleasure to provide the flowers for Cath back in February, who asked us to do up her wedding bouquet around purple and orange dahlias, as well as supplying two buckets of white and three buckets of coloured mixed seasonal flowers for the wedding party to create their own table and venue decorations at the stunning 💞 We think they did a fantastic job! If you’re interested in a Slow Blooms wedding, visit the wedding page on our website.

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14/04/2025

Very cool initiative, hope to see more of this

Thanks to a technology called anaerobic digestion, Aucklanders’ food scraps now provide renewable energy to help power the tomatoes that may very well end up on Aucklanders’ plates.

01/04/2025

We are looking forward to welcoming the Nīkau School holiday programme to Slow Blooms and Charlies Gelato 💐

Easter Holiday Programme – Open to the Community!

These school holidays, Nīkau School warmly invites all children aged 5–12 years, whether enrolled with us or not, to join our Easter School Holiday Programme – a creative, connection-filled experience right here in our beachside community.

This April, we’ve designed a programme that celebrates arts, crafts, and hands-on experiences while shining a spotlight on some of our amazing local businesses. We know the hustle is real and times are tough for many – so we wanted to do our bit to give back, create joy, and shout out the incredible people behind our local economy.

Expect a line-up of engaging activities including:
- Felting, mosaics and fun with clay
- Ice cream tasting at a local favourite
- Cooking
🌊 And plenty of time to explore, play, and enjoy our beautiful beachside environment

A big thank you to Four Square Snells Beach, Dianne Morgan Charlies Gelato Garden Clay Friends Ingrid Anderson textile design Sheepworld Farm Park Funky Glass Art Slow Blooms for their support in making this school holiday program happen for the children in our community!!

You don’t need to be enrolled at Nīkau School to attend – this programme is open to all families in the community. Our facilities are Ministry approved and our staff first aid trained!

We’re also in the process of becoming a WINZ-subsidised provider, so watch this space for updates!

If you have a local business and would love to be involved in our next programme this July? We'd love to collaborate – please get in touch!

Click on the link below to book 👇
https://form.jotform.com/250607356166862

Address

17 Sharp Road
Auckland
0910

Opening Hours

Monday	10am - 5pm
Tuesday	10am - 5pm
Wednesday	10am - 5pm
Thursday	10am - 5pm
Friday	10am - 5pm
Saturday	10am - 5pm
Sunday	10am - 5pm

Telephone

+64212027664

Website

http://www.slowblooms.com/

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