Cathedral carpet Photos

View from the East End

View from the West End

The Floral carpet is 21 metres long.

ChristChurch Cathedral

Christchurch

New Zealand

Facebook - Otautahi Urban Foraging

This is a Facebook Social networking group dedicated to finding sources of “free” ood all over Christchurch. The Facebook site describes it as “All over the city there is food that is being grown by nature, which falls on the ground and rots without being utilized. This group will function as a treasure map for the city, displaying information about foraging throughout the Christchurch area.”

Interested? Go to Facebook and search for Otautahi Urban Foraging and join to find out  all about it and what is popular at different times of the year. Already 508 people have become fans of this site. You may be able to help as well.

Lawrie Metcalf.

Lawrie (Lawrence) Metcalf was made a Companion of the Queens Service Order in the New Year Honours 2010. He is one of New Zealand’s most well known and authoritative authors of books about New Zealand plants.

Lawrie was Assistant Director of the Christchurch Botanic Garden for over 20 years then moving to Invercargill as Director of Parks and Recreation before retiring to Mapua in the Nelson area.

He was extremely active in the Canterbury Botanical Society, NZ Institute of Parks and Recreation, the Royal NZ Institute of Horticulture and other groups. Through his involvement on groups and committees he made a great contribution to horticulture, parks, reserves, conservation, education and recreation in New Zealand. He has been recognised for much of this work by his peers.

His books are well researched and well written and accompanied by his own photographs and line drawings. The books usually provide a full and précis botanical description of the plant, a horticultural description and commentary on the use of the plant in the garden.

Cathedral Floral Carpet Christchurch New Zealand

The Festival of Flowers Floral Carpet is on again right now. East End

The first video is from the east end representing the morning sunrise

The Festival of Flowers Floral Carpet No 2.

The second video from the west end representing the sunset

Click on the link to go to the you tube video.