A “Large Residential Surprise” in Shelley Street owned by Katherine Tozer and Peter Tribe where roses attracted sisters in law Glenda Rodger (Cambridge) and Dianne Rodger (Hamilton).
Dodging rain showers was the order of the day for the Rotary Cambridge Garden Festival on Sunday with a record-breaking 1500 tickets sold.
Organiser Carey Church said she hoped it would net something in the region of $50,000 for charity once costs were finalised.
“People visited eight gardens on average and fitted most in before the rain and thunder set in around 2.30pm,” she said.
“All the gardens were quite different. We aimed to ‘clump them together’, so to speak, and that was appreciated by attendees.”
Senior writer Mary Anne Gill took her camera, an umbrella and a raincoat out with her to capture the day’s highlights.
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- Eunice Martin in her “With Nature in Mind” garden in Terry Came Drive.
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- Shirley and Mike Peterson with their dog Alfie in the background in their “An Eye Full of Colour” garden in Amelia Place.
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- Sisters from left, Catherine and Michelle Edge at Jan and Bill Mathers’ Wells Place “Crowd Pleaser”.
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- Carey Church launches the Rotary Cambridge Garden Festival at a sponsors and gardeners event on Friday night.
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- Doug and Isabel Lang, Rotary Club at Anne and Steve Spelchan’s French Pass Road “A Riot of Colour” garden.
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- Cambridge Museum manager Elizabeth Harvey at Arnold Cottage, Te Awa Retirement Village, where the Reg Buckingham Photographic Collection features his “Having Fun: Photos from the 1960s and 1970s”.
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- Anne and Steve Spelchan’s French Pass Road garden has a spot for the grandchildren.
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- “Size Doesn’t Matter” in Joy and Des Bell’s William Paul Street garden.
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- Welcome to Anne and Steve Spelchan’s French Pass Road “A Riot of Colour” garden.
