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Ellerslie Garden to Showcase Award-Winning Gardens
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From formal English gardens to rambling country estates and city hideaways, next year’s Ellerslie Garden Tours will showcase some of Canterbury’s best award-winning gardens.
Eight tours
have been organised by the Canterbury Horticultural Society
during the 2010 Ellerslie International Flower Show,
reflecting the diversity of Canterbury’s landscape and the
evolution of garden design in the region since it was
settled in the 1850s.
Canterbury Horticultural Society
Manager Iain Clark says Canterbury has a rich history, much
of which can be seen in the region’s legacy of significant
heritage gardens.
“Canterbury is blessed with a
wealth of magnificent gardens. We have historic homesteads
and cottages, modern rural retreats, contemporary urban
hideaways and formal native country gardens all of which
will be on show during Ellerslie.”
Mr Clark says the
2010 Ellerslie Garden Tours sees the return of four
favourite tours from this year - City Courtyards, Premier
Garden Tour, High Country and Country Splendour – and the
introduction of four new tours – Gateway to the Country,
Taste of North Canterbury, Akaroa and Urban
Oases.
“There is a tour to appeal to all garden
lovers. Garden tourism continues to grow, being popular with
tourists and visitors alike to the region.”
The
Ellerslie Garden Tours offer half-day city tours and
full-day country excurisons to gardens throughout
Christchurch, the Banks Peninsula, Akaroa, Ashburton area,
North Canterbury and inland high country.
Highlights
include a visit to the gardens of Sir Heaton Rhodes’
greatest legacy Otahuna; the woodland and water gardens at
Trotts in Ashburton; a tour of the garden studio of
watercolour artist Nancy Tichborne; the rolling lawns and
gardens of Mona Vale; a large formal garden with native
flora; a high country garden subjected to weather extremes;
and a historic cottage with a series of
courtyards.
For more details visit the Ellerslie
International Flower Show website http://http://www.ellerslieflowershow.co.nz
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Ellerslie International Flower Show is New Zealand’s
premier week-long Garden Party in Christchurch’s North
Hagley Park from 10 to 14 March. The Show celebrates
Christchurch’s Garden City heritage and the best of
national and international garden design. Check out the
website for further information http://http://www.ellerslieflowershow.co.nz
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