Best garden for a third time

Press, 3 October 1979, Page 6

Best garden for a third time

Mrs A. K. Asher, of 29 Middlepark Road, Upper Riccarton, has won the Canterbury Horticultural Society’s spring-garden competition for the third time. She won the section of the competition, for gardens of between 750 sq m and 1500 sq m. She was second in the rock-garden section. Mrs Asher said yesterday she had won the competition the last two times she had

entered it, two and four years ago. “You have to stand down the next year,” she said. She also won the summergarden award last year. , She said she did all thei work herself, with some help from her husband. “He mows the lawns,” she said. Other place-getters in the spring-garden competition were N. Holland and Mrs Holland, of 281 Memorial

i Avenue, Burnside, and B. Straker, of 11 Talltree Avenue, Avonhead, who were second and third respectively.

The winner of the under--750 sq m section was Mrs C. A. Howman, of 42 Craven Street, Upper Riccarton. The best rock garden was that of N. C. Woods and Mrs Woods, of 140 Yaldhurst Road.