Keeping it in the lanning: Few families can lcaim to have an heirloom as lovely as Penny and Bill Thomas' historic Canterbury garden

摘要

John Grigg was 26 when he left his native Cornwall and sailed for New Zealand in 1854. Within 10 years he had acquired the land which was later to be known as Longbeach Station in the Ashburton area of Canterbury. This vast tract of land, which eventually covered an astonishing 32,000 acres, was described on the Lands Office map of the time as a "Valueless Bog". It lay between rivers to the north and south and was bordered on the east by the Pacific Ocean.