A photograph of plantings along a car park border in Lichfield Street.
A photograph of seating at the temporary bus exchange on Lichfield Street.
Vicki O'Sullivan stands by the sign pointing through a fern garden to the temporary new entrance to the School of Engineering office. Asbestos is currently being removed from areas within the building.
Under the trees in the Botanic Gardens was a 'Road Cone Art Competition', to see what sculptures the public could make out of a road cone. This work was titled 'Flight of the Butterflies'.
Portaloos on the Pine Mound, part of Festival of Flowers. This portaloo has been decorated with a small garden and footpath leading up to the entrance, and inside is a stuff figurine.
Portaloos on the Pine Mound, part of Festival of Flowers. Each portaloo has been decorated with a small garden and footpath leading up to the entrance, and inside is a stuff figurine.
Portaloos on the Pine Mound, part of Festival of Flowers. This portaloo has been decorated with a small garden and footpath leading up to the entrance, and inside is a stuff figurine.
A photograph of Marie Hudson setting up refreshments for the launch of the Green Room on Colombo Street.
If you walk along the Avon River by Cashel Street you might catch a glimpse of the small gondolas taking their fares for a leisurely punt through the city and botanical gardens. Today this attraction is aimed largely at tourists, … Continue reading →
An image from a Army News March 2011 article titled, "Territorial Force". The image shows a member of the Territorial Force clearing silt from a resident's garden in east Christchurch.
Members of the central and lower North Island Territorial Forces clearing silt from a resident's garden in Christchurch. Sapper Nelson Lambert from Palmerston North can be seen pushing a wheelbarrow.
A photograph of the earthquake damage to a house in the Christchurch central city. The bricks walls of the building have collapsed and the bricks have spilt into the garden.
Artist and landscape architect Bridget Allen wouldn't have known how appropriate the name of her gardening business was to be when she set it up, out of Ilam art school and working at the Christchurch Botanic Gardens. The name Regenerative Gardening Maintenance was prophetic given her city and its landscape was about to start regenerating. The 2010-2011 Canterbury earthquakes saw not only buildings turned to rubble, large tracts of land, including an area around Ōtākaro Avon River the size of two New York Central Parks, started to turn from suburbia back to nature. The red zone has been turning green ever since. In the wake of tragedy artists and gardeners came together to innovate and create new public spaces, with an eye on sustainability and community connection. Allen cofounded New Brighton sewing charity Stitch-o-Mat and retrained as a landscape architect. Since 2023 she has been the director of The Green Lab, which began after the quakes as Greening the Rubble, creating urban green spaces and events for connection, while also working with residents to make their own backyards more sustainable. Ever busy with working and planting bees, workshops to build habitats for plants and nature, and consultations to help people make their backyards more sustainable, on August 16 Bridget is running with The Green Lab Birds of Brighton printmaking workshops. It's at the Make Station in New Brighton Mall at 11am and 1pm. No experience is needed. She joined Culture 101's Mark Amery.
Picture this. A summer’s day: clear blue skies and the heat of the afternoon sunshine, just the hint of a breeze. You might be in a garden, sheltering from the sun in the shade of the tree or under a … Continue reading →
A photograph captioned, "I wonder what they're going to do with the land? We'd like a community garden. That's our aim, but I don't know what they're going to do. Seems like nobody does".
A photograph of the Gap Filler mini-golf hole in the Rotherham Clock Park in Riccarton.
The co-founder and Creative Director of Gap Filler, Coralie Winn, making a coffee at the Lyttelton Petanque Working Bee, a Gap Filler project to create a garden and petanque court in an empty site in Lyttelton.
The co-founder and Creative Director of Gap Filler, Coralie Winn, sorting bricks at the Lyttelton Petanque Working Bee, a Gap Filler project to create a garden and petanque court in an empty site in Lyttelton.
Damage to a building on Colombo Street. Beside it is a sign that says 'Footpath closed Please use alternative route'. Ongoing demolition work and street cordons in Christchurch mean that gardens are left and becoming overgrown.
The Botanic Gardens, in the background is part of the Peacock Fountain, Christchurch I-site in a portacom on the left and the Art Centre. In the foreground is a wheelbarrow with some gardening equipment.
A photograph of Jennie Cooper and Marie Hudson in the crowd during the launch of the Green Room on Colombo Street.
A photograph of Liv Worsnop's Zen Garden installation on the corner of Cashel Street and Manchester Street. Sculptures by Miranda Parkes can be seen on the cleared building site on the opposite corner.
A photograph of members of Crack'd for Christchurch in the crowd during the launch of the Green Room on Colombo Street.
A house in Richmond being demolished. The back of the house has been demolished, and the back garden can be seen through the front windows. The photographer comments, "The end of 393 River Rd".
A house in Richmond being demolished. The back of the house has been demolished, and the back garden can be seen through the front windows. The photographer comments, "The end of 393 River Rd".
The 10 square metre office building on a vacant site in Sydenham, serving as the Gap Filler Headquarters. In front of the building is a garden created by wheelbarrow 'pot plants'.
Members of the public listening to Lyttelton band, Runaround Sue, perform at Gap Filler's "Film in the Gap!" project. Gap Filler has provided old beds and garden swing seats as seating.
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Aftermath of the Christchurch earthquake as residents start to clean up. Jo Mackwell digs out the garden of her parents from under the silt in Reaby Street, Burwood".
An image from a Army News March 2011 article titled, "Territorial Force". The image shows members of the Auckland and Northland Territorial Units clearing bricks from a resident's garden in east Christchurch.
The site of Gap Filler's first project at 832 Colombo Street. A mobile coffee vender can be seen as well as a garden made out of pot plants and lots of seating.