The easiest parking in Christchurch is near the Botanic Gardens, and the day had a floral theme.
The gardeners even turned on a rainbow for me.
Throughout Christchurch many of the parks have large patches of daffodils flowering. Nowhere more so than in Hagley Park adjacent to the Gardens.
Yet another striking floral display was around the Scott of the Antarctic statue.
Scott spent 3 weeks in Christchurch before his final expedition to reach the South Pole in 1911 (don’t quote me on the dates).
News of his death on the return journey reached New Zealand in 1912.
His wife Lady Scott was a sculptor and did a bronze for London.
The citizens of Christchurch initially commissioned her to do another bronze. By the time it came to be done every bit of metal was dedicated to the First World War, so she sculpted it in marble.
Due to the delicacy of the marble, the fine detail of hands and around his ankle were to be completed after it was installed in Christchurch.
Lady Scott never made it, so it is still unfinished.
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