An apprentice gardener, Miss Louise Morgan, tends a bed of schizanthas (“poor man’s orchid”) in the glasshouse at the Christchurch Botanic Gardens. The curator, Mr Warwick Scadden, said a number of shrubs were flowering a fortnight ahead of time. Flowering early is the Magnolia campbellii which normally flowers in mid-August but which has been in bloom since early July. —Photograph by JANE HEALEY
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63An apprentice gardener, Miss Louise Morgan, tends a bed of schizanthas (“poor man’s orchid”) in the glasshouse at the Christchurch Botanic Gardens. The curator, Mr Warwick Scadden, said a number of shrubs were flowering a fortnight ahead of time. Flowering early is the Magnolia campbellii which normally flowers in mid-August but which has been in bloom since early July. —Photograph by JANE HEALEY Press, 6 August 1987, Page 1
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