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SELWYN GARDENING GUIDE <strong>2025</strong> | 3<br />
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EDITORIAL<br />
Isabelle Teresa<br />
Claire Reid<br />
DESIGN<br />
Rachel Taylor<br />
Sophie Burgess<br />
Springing<br />
into action!<br />
Spring has sprung and the grass is<br />
riz! Selwyn is full of amazing gardens,<br />
experts and opportunities, so we hope you<br />
find inspiration in the ideas, events and<br />
locations we’ve gathered for you in this<br />
<strong>2025</strong> Selwyn Gardening Guide.<br />
All our towns and villages have Garden<br />
Clubs or Horticultural Societies – see the<br />
Canterbury Horticultural Society website<br />
or your local Facebook pages.<br />
Or to dip your toe into vege gardening,<br />
look up “community gardens” on<br />
selwyn.govt.nz.<br />
Selwyn is also home to many gardening<br />
and landscaping suppliers and services,<br />
many with decades’ or generations’ worth<br />
of experience to call on.<br />
Here are some local gardening-related<br />
events that are all free or reasonably<br />
priced. Search the links for details. Spring<br />
starts here!<br />
Weekly<br />
Wed 10–12 + Sat 1–3: ReNourish<br />
Community Garden working bees / selwyn.<br />
govt.nz/renourish<br />
Wed & Sat 8–4.30: Broadfield Garden open<br />
days (see below)<br />
<strong>October</strong><br />
Sat 18: Ellesmere A&P Show, Leeston.<br />
ellesmereshow.co.nz<br />
Sat 18: “Don’t Treat Your Soil Like Dirt!”<br />
workshop. lincolnenvirotown.org.nz<br />
Sat 18: Faringdon Community Garden<br />
Open Day. selwyn.govt.nz<br />
Sun 26: Orton Bradley Park Spring Fair.<br />
ortonbradley.nz<br />
Sun 26–Mon 27: Little River Flower Power<br />
Garden Trail (see next page). Facebook +<br />
Eventfinda<br />
Mon 27: Hororātā Parish Spring Fair.<br />
hororata.org.nz<br />
Thurs 30 Oct–Sun 2 Nov: Hurunui<br />
Garden Festival.<br />
hurunuigardenfestival.com<br />
November<br />
Sat 1: Lincoln Anglican Parish Plant Fair.<br />
facebook.com/LincolnAnglicanParish<br />
Sat 1: “Veges 101” workshop.<br />
lincolnenvirotown.org.nz<br />
Sat 1: ReNourish Community Garden Open<br />
Day. selwyn.govt.nz/renourish<br />
Mon 3: Nourish Community Garden —<br />
Darfield, Open Day. selwyn.govt.nz<br />
Thurs 6: Lincoln Envirotown Community<br />
Garden Open Day. selwyn.govt.nz<br />
Sat 8: “Starting and Maintaining a Worm<br />
Farm” workshop. lincolnenvirotown.org.nz<br />
Sat 8: West Melton Native Plants,<br />
workshop and tour. nutpoint.org<br />
Thurs 13–Sun 16: Spring Garden Open<br />
Days. selwyn.nz/spring/garden-open-days<br />
Sun 16: Kirwee Open Gardens fundraiser<br />
+ Kirwee Community Garden Open Day.<br />
Facebook + selwyn.govt.nz<br />
Sat 22: Courtenay A&P Show.<br />
courtenayshow.org.nz<br />
Sun 23: The Selwyn Fete, at Broadfield<br />
Gardens. theselwynfete.co.nz<br />
December<br />
Fri 5: Rakaia Garden Fête (see next page).<br />
Facebook + Eventfinda<br />
Sun 7: Terrace Station, Hororātā. Open<br />
Day: early summer flowers.<br />
terracestation.org.nz<br />
2026<br />
Sun 15 Feb: The Giving Garden Festival, at<br />
Broadfield Gardens. Facebook + Eventfinda<br />
Sat 21 March: Leeston Fete. Facebook<br />
Broadfield Garden:<br />
Selwyn treasure<br />
Broadfield<br />
garden<br />
A multi award winning<br />
garden with many design<br />
ideas, planting ideas and<br />
maintenance minimising<br />
systems. See plants that<br />
do well in Canterbury.<br />
20 different sections of<br />
varying sizes and styles.<br />
Visits, guided tours<br />
usually available, allow<br />
1 to 1 hour 30 minutes,<br />
picnics welcome, photos,<br />
wedding ceremonies,<br />
group visits.<br />
Adults<br />
$20<br />
children<br />
free<br />
FREE visit on Saturday 11th<br />
& Sunday 12th <strong>October</strong><br />
Open Wednesdays & Saturdays 8 – 4.30 & by arrangement<br />
250 Selwyn Road M: David 027 4334 099 E: david@bel.nz<br />
David Hobbs has been creating the<br />
3.5-hectare, award-winning Broadfield<br />
Garden for over 33 years. Nestled in the<br />
triangle between Selwyn and Waterholes<br />
Roads, equidistant between Rolleston,<br />
Prebbleton and Lincoln, it is stunning in all<br />
seasons.<br />
On arrival, the impressive scale of the<br />
grand lawns and ponds, shaped by<br />
crisply trimmed hedges, initially triggers<br />
thoughts of English National Trust gardens<br />
– but pay attention to the plantings and<br />
you’ll see that Broadfield is very much<br />
a contemporary NZ garden. Many natives<br />
are used, as are NZ-raised varieties of many<br />
well-known species. There are substantial<br />
plantings of very good iconic NZ longterm<br />
trees, including kauri, tōtara, kahikatea<br />
and beech, established from 30 years plus.<br />
Grand vistas give way to beguiling<br />
paths leading to smaller groves and<br />
settings, including the highly popular<br />
veggie garden. Smatterings of artworks of<br />
different styles add colour and a smile.<br />
You will get hundreds of ideas on garden<br />
design, planting, maintenance and plants<br />
that do well in Canterbury. David, the<br />
friendly gardener, welcomes questions.<br />
Selwyn District, with its recent<br />
exponential growth, does not have many<br />
heritage assets and Broadfield is certainly<br />
one of those.<br />
Put up for sale in 2024, the right buyer<br />
has not yet been found. Residents lobbied<br />
Selwyn District Council to buy it and<br />
make it free to visitors like Council-owned<br />
gardens elsewhere, but unsuccessfully.<br />
Alternate uses would be as a very superior<br />
wedding venue, or luxurious forever<br />
home site probably no longer available to<br />
visitors.<br />
Surely any buyer will want to keep<br />
this masterpiece open, but just in case, get<br />
down there! There are open days every<br />
Wednesday and Saturday, 8am–4.30pm, for<br />
the low cost of $20 (kids are free).<br />
Located at 250 Selwyn Road,<br />
Weedons. david@broadfieldgarden.nz.<br />
Phone 0274 334 099. <strong>Special</strong>ising in<br />
visits, tours, picnics, photography,<br />
family occasions and weddings.
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