Jo Wakelin's half-acre garden in the Central Otago region is dominated by its surroundings: mountains that reach up to 2000m. There are no obvious boundaries, and the garden, as she notes, “may be under an acre, but I feel like I've got thousands of acres”. She feels she has “a very strong connection to the landscape, my place of standing — tūrangawaewae in Māori”.
The plants in Jo's garden blend in with their surroundings through their form (gently curved, hummocky shapes, generally organised into rounded planting borders)
