WHEN CHILDREN'S AUTHOR and audio producer Janice Marriott bought her Thorndon, Wellington, worker's cottage 10 years ago, there was a weeping apple tree and just enough lawn for her Labrador to loll about on. The dog, sadly, has passed on but the garden continues to thrive. A decade on, every square centimetre of soil in the 104 sqm plot produces plants -edible, fragrant or both. The growth is so prolific it's a matter of "quelling exuberance rather than coaxing things to grow," as Janice puts it. "But don't use the word riotous -there's quite a bit of control going on!"
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