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Ōtari Two Hundred Years of Ōtari-Wilton's Bush

By: Bee Dawson(Author), Chris Coad(Photographer)
180 pages, colour photos
Publisher: The Cuba Press
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  • Ōtari ISBN: 9781988595610 Paperback Nov 2022 Not in stock: Usually dispatched within 2-3 weeks
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Ōtari tells the story of Ōtari-Wilton’s Bush, the only botanic garden dedicated solely to the collection and conservation of the plants unique to Aotearoa New Zealand and a native bush reserve with over a hundred hectares of regenerating forest, including some of Wellington’s oldest trees.

It begins with the Ngati Tama gardens in the area from the 1820s, and settler family the Wiltons, who protected acres of native bush for the community to enjoy, and then follows the evolution of the land into a plant museum under leading plant ecologist Leonard Cockayne and Wellington’s first Director of Parks and Reserves, John Gretton MacKenzie.

Botanical descriptions and archival research are enlivened by the colourful stories of the curators who created and managed the collections, starting with Walter Brockie in 1947, and the many gardeners, botanists and volunteers who have worked on the internationally renowned garden and reserve. Ōtari-Wilton’s Bush is a taonga that sustains both the people who visit it and the country whose plant life it protects.

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Bee Dawson is a Wellington author, columnist, public speaker and historian. She has published twenty books on New Zealand social history, including A History of Gardening in New Zealand and Lady Painters: The Flower Painters of Early New Zealand. A keen gardener, Bee is an associate member of the New Zealand Gardens Trust and a past recipient of the Royal New Zealand Institute of Horticulture's Garden History Award.

Chris Coad is a commercial photographer based in Wellington whose awards include a New Zealand Film and Television award for his work on Forgotten Silver and Cathay Pacific Travel Photographer of the Year.

By: Bee Dawson(Author), Chris Coad(Photographer)
180 pages, colour photos
Publisher: The Cuba Press
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