A photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Former home of the Hague Family, 7 Ching Gardens, Horseshoe Lake, Burwood".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Ching Gardens and Irene Street, Horseshoe Lake".
A photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Residential properties on Ching Gardens in the Horseshoe Lake district".
A photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Sign in a window in Ching Gardens, Horseshoe Lake, Burwood".
A photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "A residential property on Ching Gardens in the Horseshoe Lake district".
A photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "House readied for demolition. Corner of Ching Gardens and Kingsford Street, Horseshoe Lake, Burwood".
An aerial photograph of Christ's College, the Canterbury Museum and the Botanic Gardens.
The seating and garden area outside the Coffee Zone shack on Colombo Street. This is a Gap Filler space and the garden has been put together by Greening the Rubble.
A photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "The intersection of Chings Gardens and Kingsford Street in the Horseshoe Lake district".
A photograph of a floral display in the Botanic Gardens as part of the Festival of Flowers. The photograph is captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Craig Pocock made this vertical arrangement".
A photograph of a floral display in the Botanic Gardens as part of the Festival of Flowers. The photograph is captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "An aquatic topiary in a lagoon".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Otakaro Place, Bexley. A great hole has opened up between the deck and the garden with fissures all over the garden".
A photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Unkept gardens have become the norm in Tasman Place, where once they used to be beautifully cared for".
A photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "The Hague family in their kitchen area at their home at 7 Ching Gardens in Horseshoe Lake".
A large crack runs through the garden of a house in Richmond. The photographer comments, "A large crack about 15cm wide runs across three sections. Note the movement in the slabs for the garden path".
A large crack runs through the garden of a house in Richmond. The photographer comments, "A large crack about 15cm wide runs across three sections. Note the movement in the slabs for the garden path".
Liquefaction in a residential garden in Kaiapoi.
Liquefaction in a residential garden in Kaiapoi.
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Looking east along Hereford Street through the CBD with the Botanic Gardens at the bottom. The grid pattern shows very clearly".
A photograph of a decorated Port-a-loo in the Botanic Gardens as part of the Festival of Flowers. The photograph is captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Bunty's Retreat. One of the Port-a-loos on the pine mound".
A photograph of a decorated Port-a-loo in the Botanic Gardens as part of the Festival of Flowers. The photograph is captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Excuse Me!!! One of the Port-a-loos on the pine mound".
A photograph of a decorated Port-a-loo in the Botanic Gardens as part of the Festival of Flowers. The photograph is captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Bunty's Retreat. One of the Port-a-loos on the pine mound".
A city’s planted trees, the great majority of which are in private gardens, play a fundamental role in shaping a city’s wild ecology, ecosystem functioning, and ecosystem services. However, studying tree diversity across a city’s many thousands of separate private gardens is logistically challenging. After the disastrous 2010–2011 earthquakes in Christchurch, New Zealand, over 7,000 homes were abandoned and a botanical survey of these gardens was contracted by the Government’s Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Authority (CERA) prior to buildings being demolished. This unprecedented access to private gardens across the 443.9 hectares ‘Residential Red Zone’ area of eastern Christchurch is a unique opportunity to explore the composition of trees in private gardens across a large area of a New Zealand city. We analysed these survey data to describe the effects of housing age, socio-economics, human population density, and general soil quality, on tree abundance, species richness, and the proportion of indigenous and exotic species. We found that while most of the tree species were exotic, about half of the individual trees were local native species. There is an increasing realisation of the native tree species values among Christchurch citizens and gardens in more recent areas of housing had a higher proportion of smaller/younger native trees. However, the same sites had proportionately more exotic trees, by species and individuals, amongst their larger planted trees than older areas of housing. The majority of the species, and individuals, of the larger (≥10 cm DBH) trees planted in gardens still tend to be exotic species. In newer suburbs, gardens in wealthy areas had more native trees than gardens from poorer areas, while in older suburbs, poorer areas had more native big trees than wealthy areas. In combination, these describe, in detail unparalleled for at least in New Zealand, how the tree infrastructure of the city varies in space and time. This lays the groundwork for better understanding of how wildlife distribution and abundance, wild plant regeneration, and ecosystem services, are affected by the city’s trees.
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Registering for The Big Hug".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "It's all too much for this small boy at The Big Hug".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "The Big Hug gets underway".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "The Big Hug gets underway".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Announcing 'The Big Hug' to commemorate the 1st anniversary of the September 4, 2010 earthquake".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Announcing 'The Big Hug' to commemorate the 1st anniversary of the September 4, 2010 earthquake".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "The Big Hug gets underway".