¿tari tells the story of ¿taríWiltons Bush, the only botanic garden dedicated solely to the collection and conservation of the plants unique to Aotearoa New Zealand and a native bush reserve with over a hundred hectares of regenerating native forest, including some of Wellingtons oldest trees. Beginning with Ngti Tama migration to the area in the early 1820s, and the Wilton family, who preserved acres of native bush, it shows how the area evolved from the early 1900s, becoming the ¿tari Native Plant Museum under leading plant ecologist Leonard Cockayne and Wellingtons first Director of Parks and Reserves, John Gretton MacKenzie--Back cover.