The Christchurch Botanic Gardens
Collections
 Cockayne Memorial Garden
In 1938 a new collection was established in the New Zealand Garden. It was a memorial dedicated to Dr Leonard Cockayne, a New Zealander of international repute as a systematic botanist, ecologist and horticulturalist. The aim of the Garden as explained at the opening ceremony " to provide material for the study of variation and evolution in New Zealand plants".
The Garden was designed in two sections. The alpine garden displays plants representative of New Zealand’s alpine flora. The second section was originally dedicated to the genus Hebe but following the redesign of the garden in 1961, collections including Leptospermum, Phormium and Sophora have subsequently been added. |
