THESE DELIGHTFUL FACTORY GARDENS..

Press, Volume CII, Issue 30062, 21 February 1963, Page 13

THESE DELIGHTFUL FACTORY GARDENS..

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Acclaimed year after year by thousands of Home Gardeners and Visitors. Christchurch’s Factory Gardens are now at the peak of their colourful and spectacular beauty. Striking floral borders and bedding arrangements of contrasting colours, offset cool green lawns, and combine to give these splendid Christchurch Factories an air of unusual elegance.

"The Home of Riccarton Carpets”— FELT & TEXTILES Axminster and Wilton factory is situated in Athol Terrace, Upper Riccarton. The factory garden covers an area oi approximately three and a-half acres and typifies the modern trend to pleasant and restful surroundings. The garden is maintained by one full-time gardener and a large number of the bedding plants are raised by the gardener himself in the factory glasshouse. Laid out in an attractive suburban setting, this factory garden is remarked on by the hundreds of visitors who visit the Carpet Factory each year.

ABOVE: A popular venue for sightseers and bridal groups, the factory garden of the Sanitarium Health Food Co.. Papanui, is visited by hundreds every year. From 2 entrances, in Harewood Road and Chapel Street, the drive sweeps past immaculate lawns and borders, intersected by a delightful little stream complete with rustic bridge and flanked by a stone flagged fountain. These ’ gardens are nearly two acres in area, and are tended by two full-time gardeners.

RIGHT: The modern concept of the factory garden is carried out to the full at the Firestone Tiro and Robber Co. of NX Limited, Papanui. A long vista of lawn, together with shrubs and flowers, offer a pleasing picture to those who appreciate the beauty of a well-planted garden. The Firestone garden has been landscaped so that it forms a perfectly balanced foreground for the factory buildings. This garden has won a number of awards in factory garden competitions. Visitors to the Firestone garden are always welcomed.

The Disabled Servicemen's League at 42 Riccarton Road is the Rehabilitation Centre for the Disabled. They are specialists in Basketware, Upholstery, French Polishing, Household, Office, .and Church Furniture. Speciality lines include Gymnasium Equipment, Table Tennis Tables, School Desks, Church Pews, etc. Their Upholstered Work is recognised as second to none and all French Polishing is genuinely hand polished. Telephone 64-789 and one of their experts will call and quote for your requirements. Their prices are extremely competitive and their factory at Riccarton Road is open to the public during normal working hours.

The garden factory of T. J. EDMONDS LTD., Ferry Road, Christchurch. These well-known gardens cover an area of one and a-half acres and are visited by thousands of people,.including overseas visitors, every year. They are a place of colour with some 20,000 plants of geraniums and annuals. Two permanent gardeners are employed. In competitions, these gardens have won on nineteen occasions. The brilliant colour of the flowers, offset by the cool green lawns, make a picture that lives long in the memory of garden lovers.