North Canterbury News: May 06, 2021

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20 The North Canterbury News, May 6, 2021
Festival to include 22 gardens
By ROBYN BRISTOW
Planning is well under way for
this year’s Hurunui Garden
Festival.
There will be 22 gardens in
six clusters to visit during the
festival, which runs from
Thursday, October 28, to
Sunday, October 31.
Some favourite gardens
return, along with seven new
ones, with the addition of some
artists and historic homesteads.
There will be no tours
organised by the committee this
year, but tour company EW
planning to organise some,
festival president Gary Mitchell
says.
Lynda Hallinan, agardener,
author, broadcaster, journalist,
part­time farmer, parent and
plantaholic, will join the
festival for two chats —one
during an afternoon tea and the
other will be adinner talk.
For half her life, the former
editor of New Zealand Gardener
magazine has been digging up
ideas and inspiration for
growing food and flowers in
Kiwi gardens.
She lives with her family in
the foothills of the Hunua
Ranges, south­east of Auckland,
and is currently splitting her
time between her large country
garden and asmall colonial
cottage renovation project.
She is also launching anew
book, The Joy of Gardening,this
year.
Julia Atkinson­Dunn, from
the home and garden website
Studiohome.co.nz and author of
the beginner’s gardening book,
Petal Power,will speak at three
gardens on different days.
With abackground in writing,
design and art, Julia fell firmly
in love with gardening while
transforming her small
Christchurch patch just 4 1 ⁄2
years ago.
Mr Mitchell says aguide to
the festival’s gardens will be
printed and the website fully
update by July 1. It will have
information about all the
gardens, homesteads and
artists.
There will be maps of each
garden to download and print,
and the website shop will be
open from July 1, selling earlybird
garden entry tickets —buy
10 and get one free.
He says there will also be a
2022 Hurunui Garden Festival
calendar for sale.
Mr Mitchell says the Hurunui
Garden Festival Inc is
committed to investing back
into its community.
If it makes areasonable
profit, it will give one student
graduating from aHurunui
secondary school ascholarship
to the value of $2000 towards
study in horticulture,
agriculture, landscape design
or arelated field, at their
choice of university or institute
of technology.
The garden festival was
launched early in 2018 by
local garden owners who
wanted to assist with the
Hurunui District’s recovery
from the November 2016
earthquake.
Special guest ... Lynda Hallinan, agardener, author, broadcaster,
journalist, part­time farmer, parent and plantaholic, will be giving two
talks during the Hurunui Garden Festival.
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Smell a
mystery
By DAVIDHILL
The cause of areeking smell
in Southbrook has left
Waimakariri District Council
staff scratching their heads.
Residents have reported a
smell in the vicinity of
Southbrook Park, which was
so strong last week that
parents considered calling off
children’s sports practices.
Acouncil spokesperson says
the Greenspace team received
aservice request last week
about asmell located within
the vicinity of the drainage
swale on the west boundary of
Southbrook Park.
‘‘At the time staff took awalk
along the drainage swales
around the park and couldn’t
find anything causing this.’’
The park was revisited on
Friday and had asimilar
result.
‘‘One theory is the drainage
swale is low flowing due to
limited rain and staff did
smell some stagnant areas,
which could be associated
with the water and some
vegetation that has rotted
down in places, but there was
nothing matching the severity
described,’’ the spokesperson
says.
Council staff have been in
contact with Delta, the
contractor which maintains
the drainage channels, but
field staff have not reported
anything unusual.
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