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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. Festiv...
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. Juliet Nicholas/NZ House & Garden Margie and Owen W...
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 peop...
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