Matter of taste
Sir,—Your sub-leader, “Public welcome for Tower?” (September 21), comments on "... the most intractable question of all, a matter of taste. The council has every right to refer to public opinion ...” May I apply your argument to that most offensive of all Christchurch’s trumpeted features — competition gardens? These are not gardens at all, but therapeutical exercises, apparently carried out by retired regimental sergeant-majors. My own 27 perches is
visited annually by landscape architects with their students — not tourists. Can their proud owners claim the same? Is it not time public opinion was sought and action taken over these pompous substitutes for horticulture? In many minds they bring the whole concept of gardening into disrepute. — Yours, etc., W. A. SUTTON. September 11,1987.
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