The Giants Garden

In Akaroa I was delighted to be shown around local artist and horticulturalist Josie Martin’s “The Giant’s Garden”. It is an astonishing wooden colonial home and garden filled with huge wonderfully colourful and vivid ceramic mosaic sculptures that reflect Josie’s wild imagination. The planting is eclectic and colourful also, with natives and exotics that compliment and enhance the artworks on a tiered site with lots of levels that beg to be explored. I would recommend it highly to anyone who finds themselves in Akaroa: you should not miss it!

-AC