Preparing plants for a sale in Shetland St Community Garden in Wakari (from left) garden olunteer Ian Craven and trustees Joseph Dougherty and Hendrik Koch.PHOTO: SHAWN MCAVINUEA community garden is to sell thousands of native plants, after a Dunedin City Council project to lay wastewater pipes hit delays. Shetland St Community Garden trustee Joseph Dougherty said the community garden in Wakari was established in the late 1990s. Volunteers at the garden grew plants for the council to use for some of its contracts. Garden trustee Hendrik Koch said the plants ranged from tussocks to toetoe and were nearly all exclusively local conservation species. A delay in the programme resulting in the community garden members having to sell plants was "unfortunate''.

Source: Otago Daily Times November 02, 2019 15:32 UTC