Following huge success across the three days of the first-ever Grow Ōtautahi, event organisers have this week announced 2022 dates for the popular Christchurch Garden Festival. Grow will return to the Christchurch Botanic Gardens, with entry still ...
Press Release – Grow Otautahi Following huge success across the three days of the first-ever Grow tautahi, event organisers have this week announced 2022 dates for the popular Christchurch Garden Festival. Grow will return to the Christchurch Botanic Gardens, with entry still …
Following huge success across the three days of the first-ever Grow Ōtautahi, event organisers have this week announced 2022 dates for the popular Christchurch Garden Festival.
Grow will return to the Christchurch Botanic Gardens, with entry still free to everyone, over three days from 18 to 20 March 2022.
Festival Director Sandi MacRae says excitement is already building around the 2022 festival, with sponsors and visitors to the 2021 event sharing their favourite parts of the show and coming up with new ideas for next year.
Harmony, colour and rhythmic lines come together in a Canterbury garden.
For an artist with a botany degree, creating a garden from scratch on a bare flat paddock presented both a rare opportunity and a challenge. “It was the biggest blank canvas I had ever worked on,” says Margie Waters. Margie and her husband, Owen, a now-retired pilot, moved from Auckland to North Canterbury in 2006 with their two teenage sons, lured by family in Christchurch and the opportunity to buy a block of land in Ohoka, just 25 minutes’ drive from the city.
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Margie and Owen Waters. At right, buxus balls dot a lime-chip path flanked with four Malus âRed Topâ crab apple trees underplanted with Lavandula âGrossoâ and white creeping thyme; pyramid-shaped Malus âBallerina Polkaâ apples grow behind a Malus âJack Hummâ crab apple at the far end with a feijoa hedge linking to the potager beyond.
Friday, 12 March 2021, 9:49 am
Visitors revel in Grow exhibitions, workshops, activities
and demonstrations
Gates opened on the first-ever Grow
Ōtautahi this morning and the Christchurch Botanic Gardens
is already buzzing with people enjoying what the Garden
City’s own garden festival has to offer.
Grow
Ōtautahi is free for everyone over three days – Friday,
Saturday and Sunday 12-14 March – in the Christchurch
Botanic Gardens. The festival is in the area surrounding the
Ilex Café – with signs from gardens
entrances.
Festival Director Sandi MacRae says it’s
exciting welcome people to Christchurch’s very own garden
festival
“Grow is all about the community and
Set-up starts today (Friday 5 March 2021) in the
Christchurch Botanic Gardens as the city gets ready to host
the first-ever, free Grow Ōtautahi festival.
Fences
are going up on-site and exhibitors will start to arrive
over coming days to get ready for gates opening to the
public for three days from 9am on Friday 12 March. Grow is a
garden festival like you’ve never seen before and it’s
FREE for everyone.
Take a look at the Grow
programme to see what’s on and plan your visit over
the three days of the free event.
One of the many
festival highlights will likely be the interactive City
Press Release – Christchurch Garden Festival Get a taste of tautahi at Grow in March, as top chefs from around the region share their culinary skills with visitors to Christchurchs very own, FREE, garden festival. Celebrity chef Jax Hamilton will lead a team of top chefs as they take on the plant-based …
Get a taste of Ōtautahi at Grow in March, as top chefs from around the region share their culinary skills with visitors to Christchurch’s very own, FREE, garden festival.
Celebrity chef Jax Hamilton will lead a team of top chefs as they take on the plant-based Meadow Mushrooms Mystery Box challenge over three days in the Grow Ōtautahi Garden Kitchen.