The 33 greenhouses of Oceania

Load-bearing columns and beams of laminated glass: a 2007 pavilion built around the heritage pond of the 1867 Victoria House.

Paid for with profits from the 1913-14 exhibition, they are rated by Heritage New Zealand the finest glasshouses of their kind in the country.

Every year from February to April, some 300 tuberous begonias rise in tiers along the L-shaped stands of this 1936 glasshouse.

The largest single-span glasshouse in the entire Southern Hemisphere.

Donated in 1934 by Mayor Alfred William Blowes, it grows tuberous begonias, the first of them a gift from the City of Ballarat.

Described at its opening as "the finest building of its kind in Australia and New Zealand."

Funded by a 1928 fete and opened in February 1929, it was then considered the largest display house in New Zealand.

A greenhouse built during the Great Depression to bring a touch of color to a city in crisis.

A municipal conservatory funded by a bequest, called a 'miniature Crystal Palace' by an alderman in 1932, restored in 2025.

Given in 1966 by a daughter in memory of her father, this glasshouse copied the infra-red heating of Wellington's Begonia House.

Hailed as the largest greenhouse in the entire Southern Hemisphere when it opened, it is now being restored.

A tropical house warmed mainly by the sun through large north-facing windows, sheltering plants from Indonesia and Malaysia.

Prefabricated German Victorian greenhouse from Bremen, the only known surviving example of its kind.

Its three grottoes were dug into the hillside with spades: about 4,000 cubic yards of subsoil removed by hand.

Described as the first glasshouse of its kind, this glass pyramid held a spiral staircase rising through tropical planting.

Every autumn this conservatory shows the city's begonia collection, the centrepiece of a festival held since 1953.

Bendigo's first prefabricated building, this 1897 cast-iron conservatory is the only nineteenth-century conservatory left standing in a public park in Victoria.

A white colonnade completes the curve of a 1980s glasshouse into a circle, framing the garden like a camera.

Its walls reuse sandstone from Hobart's old hospital, demolished in 1939, and its doors were salvaged from a city jeweller's shop.

Four small interconnected glasshouses beside Cuningham House bring together seasonal flowers, cacti, orchids and alpine plants.

A 28-metre dome opened in 1977, where aroids, heliconias and palms grow alongside cocoa and African nutmeg.

Built in 1940 to mark New Zealand's centennial, the glasshouse extends from a streamlined Moderne entrance building beside Lake Rotokawau.

Proposed in 1906 and opened in 1908, it is the first winter garden built in Australasia, according to Heritage New Zealand.