CHS Website Editor, Author at Canterbury Horticultural Society

Di Lucas questions draft residential chapter Recovery Plan ‘ A Liveable City’

News & Events

A Christchurch landscape architect does not believe plans for the new Christchurch CBD will respect the natural landscape and eco-systems of the area.

Di Lucas said the plans did not show any consideration for the natural land and she would be making a submission against the draft residential chapter Recovery Plan ‘ A Liveable City.’

She spoke about her concerns at the Winter Speaker Series hosted by the Christchurch Horticulture Society last Thursday (17 July 2014)

Spring into Daffodils

Recent Tours & Photos, Tours

Thursday 4 September 2014 10.00am – 3.00pm Leeston Half Day Tour to David Bell’s Daffodil Farm Enjoy a tour and talk with hosts Stu & June McLachaln with an opportunity to pick your own bunch of quality Daffodils to take home. Followed by afternoon tea at Silverwood, Jo Free’s graceful country garden, laid out with … Read More

Choconut Slice

Recipes

Choconut Slice This recipe is from Annabel Langbein’s ‘The Free Range Cook: Simple Pleasures’ and is her decadent update of an oldie but a goodie that used to feature on the back of condensed milk cans. Ingredients 150g melted butter 270g plain biscuits, crushed to fine crumbs 2 tbsp. cocoa 1 cup shredded coconut 1 … Read More

Roses roses roses – July Plant of the Month

Plant of the Month, The Flower Garden

How can we not mention roses for the month of July. Oderings new seasons roses have arrived. Often in Winter my interest in the garden becomes as dormant as the plants, and I curl up with a book and a nice hot cuppa, and ignore the cold weather around me. Although this is likely the … Read More

View from the Deck – Garden shows & the Garden City

News, View from the Deck

A garden show is essential for Christchurch the Garden City. Recent decisions by the Christchurch City Council are very encouraging for the development of our own show. More importantly is the idea that garden and horticultural people will be consulted in Christchurch. However that does not mean we should be waiting around to be consulted. … Read More

July 2014 Quiz Time Q & A

Quiz Time

On which Christchurch Street, Road or Avenue would you find the following: The Sanitarium Company McLean’s Mansion Templeton Daffodils St Barnabas Church Coulter’s Nursery Portstone Nursery

Saving a Life

From the Board

I am not a horticulturalist, nor am I an avid gardener. I have, however, dabbled in gardening both indoors and outdoors with pot plants and the traditional veggie patch sticking to the easy stuff like potatoes, tomatoes, silver beet, carrots, cabbages, lettuces etc. I must admit there’s always been a great sense of satisfaction as … Read More

Monthly Tips & Tasks July 2014

Monthly Tips & Tasks, Plant Forum, The Flower Garden, This Month in the Garden, Winter Gardening

We are having a very wet Winter so far so this will restrict much of what we can do in the garden during this month. It will be better to wait for improved weather so that we will not do any harm in and around the garden. Most of the work needed to be done … Read More

Beauty in the Wild

From the Board, News & Events

I was born and bred in Rochdale, an industrial town in Lancashire on the outskirts of Manchester nestled under the nearby Pennines. Like Christchurch it suffered from chronic air pollution as its natural tendency to winter inversion layers laden with dirty smoke from “those dark, satanic mills”. Despite this my curiosity to know what was … Read More

Seed Saving in a Nutshell

News & Events

Danielle Johnson & Valmai Becker are presenting this interesting workshop on Sunday 27th July 2014 1-3pm Okuti Valley Sport and Recreation Hall Okuti Valley Road, Little River Banks Peninsula Price: $20 per person on the door Includes Phytofarm herbal refreshment Enquiries to: danielle.muskan.johnson@googlemail.com