Many gardeners were horrified last week when a 80-year-old tenant at a Christchurch social housing property had her garden ripped up by authorities without warning.
Jacky Braid of Havelock North decided she had to collect plants for Wang because it felt personal.
Photo: Tom Kitchin
Since then, offers of help to replenish the garden have come from far and wide, including some from as far away as Hawke's Bay.
When Jacky Braid from Havelock North heard Zhang Wang's garden in Christchurch had been destroyed, she knew she had to act.
"My mother's an elderly Asian woman too and I just saw this 80-year-old Asian woman who is obviously of Chinese descent have her garden completely ripped out and destroyed," she said.