Welcome to the wonderful world of aromatic, therapeutic botanicals
Leafy Hollow is a three acre Garden, Gallery and Shop located just 60 minutes from Central Auckland.
Although our main crop is lavender, we distil and use many other fragrant plants growing around the garden to create our unique range of natural and organic products.
Garden and Shop OPENING TIMES for casual visitors
June 2026
CLOSED this weekend
Group visits and workshops must be pre-booked.
Next workshop - Saturday 18th July
Bathtime Bliss
contact now to book your place
Contact Pauline for shop purchases and workshop bookings
Check out the WORKSHOPS page for upcoming workshops
Book now through the contact form.
Any changes to these opening times will be posted here and also on our Leafy Hollow Facebook page. Look out for the Leafy Hollow flag at the top of Duff Road. Drive to the bottom of the road to find us.
What's New at Leafy Hollow? Introducing Birdbox Studio and Gallery
We’re delighted to tell you about Birdbox Studio and Gallery, a fabulous space at Leafy Hollow where my son, Tom Livesey, will showcase his art.
Pauline Livesey
2/20/20261 min read
Leafy Hollow has a new venture in the making. Tom Livesey, my son, has always been an artist, plus many other things, and now he is introducing his unique creativity to the world.
Introducing Birdbox Studio and Gallery!
Birdbox Studio and Gallery holds a small sample of Tom’s work with paint, wood and stainless steel.
Over the years Tom has produced a lot of artwork using a variety of media on a wide-ranging scale.
The paintings displayed here express his affinity with the natural world – particularly trees.
You will also see work in progress, likely oil paintings, which Tom now approaches with great freedom, beginning with direction but no destination, simply taking colour on journeys around the canvas confident that they will arrive somewhere beautiful, having competed and collaborated incessantly along the way.
He likens the process to free-form jigsaw puzzling, where there are no pieces and no picture is provided as a guide. There is, however, always a solution.
It is a very engrossing and challenging mental exercise.
Tom’s work is already attracting attention and engaging visitors in an interactive journey of the imagination.
See examples of Tom's work above and to the right (sculpture entitled 'Isobel').
We look forward to welcoming you to our new gallery space!
Leafy Hollow Botanicals
Explore our botanical garden and skincare products and visit the onsite Birdbox Art Gallery.
Contact
+64 021 264 8654
© 2026. All rights reserved.