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July 24th, 2016

7/24/2016

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My early garden making was much more modest. The first was a little courtyard garden in flats I designed in Dorset Street, Christchurch, in 1956. It had a brick terrace with a long narrow pool on one side and an L-shaped garden on the other. The planting was much influenced by an article in the Architectural Review on architectural plans and included yucca, Agave americana, Macleaya cordata, tobacco Nicotiana, Euphorbia, and one tree, a crab apple, Malus domestica. After the 2010 earthquake the concrete block garden walls collapsed and the eight flats were badly damaged. Multiple ownership and three insurance companies will make rebuilding difficult.

MILES WARREN, Ohinetahi: Garden, House and Art, Sir Miles Warren, 2014, ISBN 978-0-473-30263-4, pp 20-21.
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