South Seas Gallery
An artist's garden

There is an age old controversy about art in the garden, argued over by horticulturalists and curators of art, which New Zealand artist Lindsay Crooks finds amusing "Though gardening is considered art when plants are used to produce colour, form and texture in a landscape, curators don't usually like flowering plants to detract from art collections, and so sculpture gardens tend to be mostly foliage gardens to provide green backdrops, or monotonous walled expanses with niches against which to admire sculpture. Also, it is the ephemeral quality of gardens that often causes us to overlook the art of gardens"

Excerpt from
"Great Gardens of New Zealand"
text and photography by
Derek Fell,
published by
David Bateman publishers,
2003.