I have been reading KM’s NZ stories for half an hour each night and am enjoying the exercise. I confess I don’t like her stories and I don’t like short stories in general – but I am treating them as gardening books, looking for clues about plants and gardens of her time, and quotes to inspire our design, plant selection and combinations.
“Above the carpet bedding, on one hand, there is a green hedge, and above the hedge a long row of cabbage trees. I stare up at them and suddenly the green hedge is a stave, and the cabbage trees, now high, now low, have become an arrangement of notes – a curious, pattering, native melody.” (In The Botanical Gardens, 1907)
I am having trouble working out which stories are set at 25 Tinakori Rd?
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At the Katherine Mansfield Birthplace in Thorndon, Wellington, a project has started to create a garden that would have been in keeping during Katherine Mansfield's life time, 1888-1923. The garden will be a mix of Victorian and Colonial styles, with the recreation of a New Zealand native garden.
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