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John Clemens: Our Awakening Botanic Garden — riding the waves of natural and planned dynamics
Illustration for Visitors Centre, Christchurch Botanic Gardens. Pattersons: Architects and Urban Designers
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St Peter’s Parish Centre, 13 Fisher Avenue, Beckenham
Public consultation endorsed the realisation that the Christchurch Botanic Gardens needed revitalising, but no one anticipated that we would get such a series of rude awakenings during 2010–12.
Hear how natural forces from above and below have shaped the ground and its plant collections, which plans have been accelerated and which hang in limbo. And against all this, how are we moving to achieve our goal of being a twenty-first-century botanic garden?
John Clemens has been curator of the Botanic Gardens since 2009, initially working in Christchurch as a graduate landscape architect and before that a plant biologist at Massey University and at the University of Sydney. Although English-born, John states he's a Kiwi at heart.