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Overview In this interview, valda talks about her early life in the Nightcaps area and moving from there to Winton during her school years and then Invercargill. She describes her career starting working in nurseries and going on to manage the rose gardens in Invercargill's Queen's Park. She talks about her love of roses and her favourite varieties and also of the apprentices who came to work with her.

Overview In this interview, David talks about his time as the gardener looking after the extensive grounds of the Riverton Hospital in from 1977 into the early 1990s when the hospital was sold to become a private elderly care home. David describes his duties and some of the other staff at the hospital who would help him.

Overview Muriwai Harris's garden from Asquith Street Mataura.

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This collection is awaiting arrangement and description. It contains photographic slides of Olive's garden, correspondence with her book publishers, copies of her interviews with Peter Seabrook and Maggie Barry, a set of postcards, her funeral programme, and a copy of her autobiography 'My Life with Flowers'.

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