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6 | Books/evenT French chic for stylish picnics A festival of garden design A new recipe book published by Australian publisher Smith Street Books features a selection of French picnic recipes for s stylish outdoor feast. The first book by Australian self-taught cook and food writer Suzy Ashford, Le Picnic reimagines outdoor lunching as a chic activity that’s worth putting a little more effort into. Rather than taking along a sandwich and a flask of coffee to your next picnic, why not make it a bacon and leek quiche, a beautiful potato and pork sausage galette or cherry tomato tartlets? As Ashford shows, classic French recipes can be easily transported and are not too complex, or requiring hard-to-find ingredients and advanced cookery skills. Le Picnic recipes include drinks, nibbles, more substantial fare, zesty salads and delicate sweet treats. Start your picnic with a glass of Champagne with fresh white peach syrup. Nibble on caramelised onion tarts, a slice of Camembert tart and a witlof salad. And finish with a selection of delectable treats including fresh raspberry tartlets and white chocolate macarons. Be transported to Paris at your next outdoor feast – maybe during Cup & Show Week. Le Picnic: Chic Food On-The-Go by Suzy Ashford. Published by Smith Street Books. RRP $35. The lack of a garden show in the Garden City will potentially prompt Christchurch garden enthusiasts to take a trip north in November for the Auckland Garden DesignFest. Featuring some of New Zealand’s best professionally designed gardens, this unique weekend festival, being held on November 25-26, allows visitors to visit up to 20 private gardens across Auckland. Throughout the two days, the designers will be on site to inspire visitors, who will have the chance to lean more about the creative process behind each garden. Auckland Garden DesignFest joint chairperson Rose Thodey says: “We always try to have a diverse range of gardens that highlight the benefit of good design and showcase different styles and sizes of gardens, from tiny courtyards to large expanses, often with vastly different budgets to match. “We feel confident that we have truly delivered on that this year and can’t wait to share them with visitors in the full flush of spring.” The biennial festival, which is organised jointly by the Garden Design Society of New Zealand and Rotary Newmarket, raises funds for Ronald McDonald House, Garden to Table Trust and the Rotary Newmarket Charitable Trust. Tickets for the Auckland Garden DesignFest can be purchased from iTICKET, plus various garden retailers and onsite at the garden gate. Choose from $65 all garden tickets, $10 single garden access or three gardens for $20. Optional guided bus tours are also available. Earlybird tickets costing $55 are available until September 30. 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gardening | 7 The art of garden design Landscape designer Joanna Hamilton grew up on a farm in Canterbury and went to boarding school in Christchurch. She says nature, wildlife, plants and the changing seasons were very much part of her life from an early age. Following university, travel and teaching, Joanna had children and during their early years developed a passion for gardening. After moving to Auckland with her family she returned to teaching while “coming to grips” with a humid climate and developing a love affair with subtropical gardening. She decided on a career change and studied landscape design at Unitec for two years. Joanna has been designing gardens across the Auckland area for 17 years. Her projects include large and small city gardens, courtyard and apartment gardens, country and coastal properties. She is one of 19 talented garden designers selected to participate in the 2017 Auckland Garden DesignFest. Forward 50 talks to Joanna about designing gardens, and gets some ideas for garden downsizing. What drew you to garden design? Living in Christchurch, I had loved everything about the English garden style, which suited the nature and character of the city and worked well with the climate and marked seasons. Needing to get to grips with the warmth and moistness of Auckland, the lack of clear seasonal demarcation and the fact that a whole new plant palette was possible, I saw an opportunity to expand my knowledge and apply it in a professional way as well as developing another personal garden. What do you enjoy about it? Studying garden design opened up so much more than an expanded plant knowledge – it developed an awareness of space, form, proportion, the interplay of light and shade. There was much to learn about construction materials, hard landscaping elements as well as soil, climate as well as building codes and standards. My love for plants remains paramount – how plants can be employed to create form and structure in a garden, provide screening and shelter as well as texture and colour is always to the fore in my planning. Do you have a signature or favourite style? Not really, although despite Auckland verging on the subtropical, I do like to see some seasonality in a garden. I admire formal gardens, but those that don’t have some seasonality are too static for me. I’ve designed a lot of subtropical gardens in the past, but more recently have moved towards creating gardens with less of a definite ‘theme’. I enjoy working with families to make gardens that are relaxed and useful and happy places to be in. These frequently include vegetable beds and fruiting trees, places to sit and places for children to play. Do you have favourite or particularly memorable projects? Creating gardens for families are often the most satisfying projects. One aspect of Joanna Hamilton’s entry in the Auckland Garden DesignFest. What was your inspiration for your entry in this year’s Garden DesignFest? By DesignFest standards it’s a small garden with the largest useable area fortunately on the north side. I wanted to make the most of the other much smaller spaces around the house and to make some visual impact, especially on the eastern side, which the kitchen and living room look out to. What should people think about when downsizing into a smaller section? • Make the most of all available space both horizontal and vertical. Even on the shady side of a house where the space may be narrow and confined, an ambience can be created, so that it’s a pleasure to pass through or to look out on from inside. • Don’t feel everything has to be smaller — a few large planters/pots make more impact than myriad little ones. • Small deciduous trees like maples and Cercis are useful, providing seasonal interest in spring and autumn, shade in summer but not in winter and importantly give some height and a sense of threedimensional space that’s so important in small gardens. What do you think is the biggest challenge of downsizing? Deciding what you don’t need anymore, resisting buying more things you don’t need and as far as the garden is concerned not creating a cluttered feel especially on decks and patios. Top tips for downsizing and utilising smaller sections/spaces • Use fewer pots and planters. • Use a few large ones over numerous small pots. • Choose appropriate furniture for the space – you may need to downsize outdoor furniture. • If possible, create two outdoor sitting spaces and make one for eating and one for low lounge-type seating. • Apartment balconies don’t provide much room for this, but a table that seats four to six (round is efficient) and a couple of low relaxing seats and a coffee table can usually be accommodated. • Vertical planters can be purchased or made if you’re inventive, to provide interest and subtle division of space. 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