A love of the land

摘要

Forty years of dedicated work and seasonal extremes have shaped a magnificent North Canterbury garden. Penny Zino and her garden, Flaxmere, are inseparable. In the last silvery twilight of a North Canterbury summer's night, she can be found making a final adjustment to the watering hose and early next morning she's back after a wake-up plunge in her pool. For forty years Penny has planned and dreamed and worked on her 2.8 hectares near Hawarden, an hour north of Christchurch, with a passion that hasintensified with the passing seasons. Earlier this year Flaxmere was chosen as a Garden of National Significance by the New Zealand Garden Trust. And from October 26 to 29 it will be the setting for Art in a Garden, an exhibition hosted by Penny and herfriend Alison Meyer that is becoming an annual event.