TRIP REPORT : Workbee - Dench garden, Newlands

 Saturday :   12 February 2005

It was a pleasure for us all to help with weeding, pruning and hedge cutting in Arnold and Ruth’s impressive garden which specialises in native alpine plants.   The garden is of national importance, and we welcome their decision to move part of the collection to Otari-Wilton’s Bush.

Participants: Peter Beveridge, Barbara Clark, Arnold and Ruth Dench (co-leaders), Barry Dent, Sue Freitag, Richard Herbert, Chris Horne, Rodney Lewington, Barbara Mitcalfe, Leon Perrie, Lara Shepherd, Darea Sherratt, Sunita Singh, Jeanette Skinner, Joyce Stretton.