Greening the Rubble has a licence to use a roadside corner at Salisbury and Madras streets, north of Jungle Cup cafe, to make a garden of native plants that should last for a few years. It has been welcomed by Peterborough Village Residents Group, who will assist with watering and plant care.
Ryan Young, St.Albans [...]
We have begun moving the colourful urban garden components first seen around Colombo Street’s Coffee Zone kiosk, northwards by a few metres, on to adjacent land owned by the Gin Family Trust. We had been keeping this site weeded for several months. The relocation is so that engineering and building works can begin at Eco [...]
Generous Ellerslie gifts to Greening the Rubble project Several exhibitors and the Ellerslie Flower Show management have generously donated materials and plants to Greening the Rubble, this week! Wonderful help offered includes a wooden shed in sections, from the Show organisers; a large selection of perennials, Daltons mulches and gravels, from Xanthe White’s award winning Garden [...]
We welcome help in Christchurch on both week-days and weekends.
Some projects need muscle power; others need basic carpentry skills and there’s plenty to suit your gardening and house-paintings skills too. Contact Rhys Taylor (Project Worker) on 021 462 260 by text or voice, or you can email from this site. Tell us [...]
Only have a small space in the sun for growing, and want some herbs or flowers to mask an unslightly fence or a patch of concrete? Try a planter made from re-constructed pallets as a temporary garden space. We are experimenting at Greening the Rubble with several designs, ranging from the heavy boxes made from [...]
At 191 Fitzgerald Ave, Christchurch, we have made a food garden with raised beds on the site of two demolished houses. Owner Tony Gray has longer-term plans for an Arts Centre on this site, but meanwhile seeks productive use of the space and is happy to allow public access under a licence agreement.
Deaf Aotearoa [...]
On 7th January 2012 local volunteers were joined by six visiting American students (hosted by UC) to provide a team to weed and clean-up this corner site beside the bus stops. Photos show before and after! The New Brighton Project would like to create a garden here. Watch their page [...]
Designer Sarah Peddie has put into effect her plans for three small colourful gardens, with gabion seats kindly donated by Urban Paving Ltd, on the perimeter of the Temporary Bus Exchange in Lichfield Street and its adjacent car park, along Colombo Street. It’s our closest move yet into the central city. The City Council had [...]
This 2011 Christchurch project aims to green the empty spaces in areas close to schools, using simple seed scattering and planting of sunflowers. A first site is in Oxford Street Lyttelton, near the Main School. Work began on 21 September with children from Lyttelton Main School ( see photos below). Subsequent sites have been at [...]
