Cacti garden is a winner

The Nelson Mail | March 11, 1999| | Copyright

Geoff Benge has won the Nelson Mail Garden Competition for the month of February for the Best Dry Garden with his extraordinary garden of cacti in Golden Bay and is the winner of a Wilkins and Field Mitre 10 voucher for $200.

Second place was awarded to David Leadbetter with cacti and succulent-filled planter boxes and third place to Sandra Carson with her succulent and grass garden on the coastal highway.

The judges were looking for gardens where the owners had used cacti or succulents or other xerophyte (drought-resistant) plants in a planned way to overcome a particular design solution or ...

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