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Poor Knights mainland garden resurrected at Tutukaka Marina

Poor Knights mainland garden resurrected at Tutukaka Marina 22 Jan, 2021 04:00 PM 4 minutes to read Marina manager Dylan Lease, with Tawapou Coastal Natives Guy Bowden and project manager Hamish Clueard. Photo / Tania Whyte Reporter for the Northern Advocate jodi.bryant@nzme.co.nz A neglected Tutukaka garden, designated to showcase native Poor Knights Islands plants on the mainland, has been resurrected. The Waerenga Tawhitinui (Poor Knights Garden) at Tutukaka Marina is a 2500sq m area which, over 20 years ago, then marina manager Guy Bowden created using propagated plants off the protected Poor Knights Islands to display the unique flora growing there. However, after Bowden left his role at the marina to pursue his interest in native plants, culminating in Tawapou Coastal Native Nursery, the garden fell into neglect while an unfinished pou carving, custom-designed for the area, lay dormant.