Ashburton Courier: September 16, 2021
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Hurunui GardenFestival<br />
Thursday28 th<br />
to Sunday 31 st<br />
October<strong>2021</strong><br />
A bounty of gardens to admire and inspire, will<br />
be on show in the Hurunui district this Spring.<br />
The Hurunui Garden Festival (HGF) has 22 gardens, in six<br />
clusters, onoffer, and runs from Thursday, October 28 to<br />
Sunday,October 31 from 9amto5pm each day.<br />
Some favourite gardens return, along with seven new<br />
ones.There willbemapsofeachgardentodownload and<br />
printfromthe HGF website.<br />
This year forthe first time, thereisthe opportunity to walk<br />
inside some of Hurunui’soutstanding historic homesteads.<br />
Also on offer is a showcase of local artists, their<br />
place of work and beautiful exhibits for sale.<br />
Lynda Hallinan, agardener,author, broadcaster,journalist,<br />
part-time farmer, parent and plantaholic, will join the<br />
festival for two chats —one during anafternoon tea and<br />
the other willbeadinner talk.<br />
For half her life, the former editor of New Zealand<br />
Gardener magazine has been digging up ideas and<br />
inspiration for growing food and flowers in Kiwi gardens.<br />
She lives with her family inthe foothills of the Hunua<br />
Ranges, south-east ofAuckland, and is currently splitting<br />
her time between her large country garden and asmall<br />
colonialcottagerenovation project.<br />
She is also launching anew book, The Joy ofGardening,<br />
this year.<br />
Julia Atkinson-Dunn, from the home and garden website<br />
Studiohome.co.nz and author of the beginner’s gardening<br />
book,Petal Power, will speak at three gardens on different<br />
days.<br />
With a background in writing, design and art, Julia<br />
fell firmly in love with gardening while transforming<br />
her small Christchurch patch just 4 1/2 years ago.<br />
The festivalwas launched in 2018 by agroup of keen local<br />
garden owners to help the Hurunui district recover from<br />
the impact ofthe devastating earthquake ofNovember<br />
20<strong>16</strong>.<br />
It hasbecomeapopular event, with manyvisitors making<br />
it along weekend sothey can enjoy asmany gardens as<br />
possible, along with the many attractions the district has<br />
on offer.<br />
Hurunui Garden FestivalIncorporated (HGF), is committed<br />
to investing back in its community.<br />
If it makes areasonable profit, it will give one graduating<br />
secondary school student, whose home isinthe Hurunui<br />
district, ascholarship to the value of $2000towards study<br />
in horticulture, agriculture, landscape design orarelated<br />
field, at their choice of university or instituteoftechnology.<br />
The scholarship is on offer now, and is only made when<br />
HGF makesareasonable profit fromits annual event.<br />
■ The website shop -(hurunuigardenfestival.com) -is<br />
now open for ticket sales, including an earlybird special<br />
until August 31-buy 10 and get one free. Admissions is<br />
$10 foranadult to visit each garden,payable on the dayas<br />
you enter the garden. Children 18 years ofage and under<br />
accompanied by an adultmay enterfor free.<br />
Please have cash with you, as the gardens cannot process<br />
electronic payments. Alternately you can purchase a10<br />
ticketadmission packthrough the website.<br />
Tickets available now from<br />
hurunuigardenfestival.com
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