Yes we are selling!
Do you want to make a small additional income in just 7 months of the year? Love flowers and gardens? If you enjoy people and caring for them here is your opportunity to become an owner operator of a small compelling local business with great potential for development.
Beautiful Gardens of Wānaka offers unique and bespoke guided garden tours in outstanding private gardens.
Our offering has allowed private gardeners to share their love for gardening and the fruits (and flowers) of their mahi / work without necessarily needing to be involved with the business of guiding visitors.
The business has been operating for 6 years in the Upper Clutha, delighting hundreds of locals and visitors alike, and the guide too! Created and managed by one person, it has a simple set up and little administration and overheads.
The sale includes
- Systems: bookings, marketing plan, health & safety plan, easy to update cheap website (only $115 per year), facebook (321 followers) and instagram (350 followers), accounting with Xero, sustainability verified records, database of gardens, clients and media for press releases, full training will be provided.
- Tour operations: gardens scripts, zero waste morning tea hamper, branded cap, first aid kit (never used) and everything needed for customer wellbeing.
- Vehicle: A logo branded hybrid Nissan Serena, rare 8 seater, low petrol consumption (12.9 km/l), perfect condition, easy step-in seating, power door.
A P-endorsement is needed. - I will help you get the business going, plug and play!
Opportunities for development include
- Creating other themed tours. Examples: Kaitiaki tour: tree planting, beach cleaning… Nature tours: botanical walks, bird discovery, farm tours, food growing tours, art gallery tours…
- Creating wider area tours, big demand in Queenstown, beautiful gardens in Southland…
- International garden tours eg. Bali, Europe…
- Franchising the concept for other cities…
- Photography tours, wedding photos…
- Diversify in people’s transport service
Contact beautifulgardenswanaka@gmail.com for Expressions of Interest
I absolutely loved this adventure, this business is unique! I am selling to spend more time in our garden.
Meeting fellow gardeners is always a joy and I continue tours of my regenerative property.
Florence
Beautiful Garden of Wānaka 