JO WAKELIN’S 2000-SQUARE-METRE garden in the Central Otago region of New Zealand’s South Island is dominated by its surroundings: mountains that reach up to 2000 metres. 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 around, my place of standing – tūrangawaewae in Maori”.
The plants of Wakelin’s garden blend in with their surroundings through their form – gently curved hummocky shapes,
