IF YOU WERE to visit Ngaire McLernon's central Christchurch garden now and then pop in again in six months' time, you might end up fearing for your memory. Hold on, you'd think, wasn't that cherry tree by the gate last time? And isn't that maple in adifferent place? "I'm fussy," explains Ngaire, who halfjokingly puts her exactitude down to working as a dental nurse when younger. "If something is not in the right place, I'll just put it in a wheelbarrow and away we go." In fact, just about the only thing that hasn't been uprooted is the stately 100-year-old elm - and you suspect Ngaire would love to have a crack at that too.
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