Pegasus Post: October 11, 2016

PEGASUS POST Tuesday October 11 2016 7
News
Award-winning Dallington
garden like a ‘restaurant’
• By Fraser Walker-Pearce
ABOUT 30 years ago, you
couldn’t see Ian Foster’s
Dallington home from the
street because the garden was
so overgrown. Then last week,
it won gold in a gardening
competition.
Mr Foster and his wife Val
bought the house three decades
ago but have since landscaped,
pruned, planted and cut their
garden into a winner.
They used to have a vegetable
garden but have recently been
taking it more seriously. And
now they have a gold medal to
show for it.
In a recent Canterbury
Horticulture Society
competition, the Fosters won
the small residential category for
properties up to 500 sq m.
Mr Foster said he had entered
the competition in years gone
by, and had won “several” prizes
over that time.
“(We’re) very pleased because
we got a gold for the garden this
time,” he said.
The Fosters enjoy sharing their
garden with friends and family,
who have given a nickname to a
particular part of the garden.
“Whenever we host friends
and family and are having
something to eat, we take them
to a part of the garden they say
is like a restaurant setting. They
call it Fosters on Gayhurst,” Mr
Foster said.
Mr Foster said his favourite
part of his award-winning
garden is a collection of maple
trees, but he loves it on the
whole.
“We’ve got about 40 (maple
trees) in the garden . . . I’m only
in the garden about a day a
week, but I’m always snipping at
things.
“I know I’m a skite but it’s
TOP GARDEN: Ian
Foster wearing his
$2 golden medal,
in his awardwinning
Dallington
garden.
really very different and it’s
colourful. Ian Fryer is our
landscaper, so he was helping to
lay it all out,” he said.
The garden was landscaped,
pruned and planted over the
course of the year and even
required the removal of a
swimming pool to complete the
look.
Election
results
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Mayoralty
Lianne Dalziel 75,091
John Minto 12,996
Tubby Hansen 1400
Burwood Ward (1 vacancy)
Glenn Livingstone 4771
Cruize Erueti 858
Coastal Ward (1 vacancy)
David East 2927
Jo Kane1855
Dean Lester 941
Linwood Ward (1 vacancy)
Yani Johanson 3078
Alexandra Davids 1678
Scott Toomey 302
Burwood Ward of the Coastal-
Burwood Community Board (2
vacancies)
Tim Baker 4216
Linda Stewart3484
Sela Faletolu-fasi 1756
Brian G Steer 615
Coastal Ward of the Coastal-
Burwood Community Board (2
vacancies)
Tim Sintes 3892
Kim Money 2978
Andrea Cummings 2776
Linwood Ward of the Linwood-
Central-Heathcote Community
Board (2 vacancies)
Alexandra Davids 2888
Brenda Lowe-Johnson 2583
Jackie Simons 2196
Jack Singh 1039