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NZBS GARDEN EXPERTS—7

NEW ZEALANDERS who have never been on the West Coast might think that a garden expert there would need ‘to be an expert only on hydroponics. The truth, of course, is very different, and though Oz Jackson, who is heard from 3YZ on Thursday evenings, ad'mits that rainfall and salt spray from ‘the Tasman are difficulties for gardeners on the Coast, he looks on them as difficulties to be overcome in a place where "results equal to the best in other provinces are obtainable if the gardener tries hard enough." | Mr. Jackson is a real Coaster — he "was born on the Coast, and we remember from a meeting with him a few -years ago a Coaster’s friendliness. He tells us he has been interested ‘in horticulture since his youth, though it has been his full-time work only in recent | years, since he retired from his business as a sanitary engineer and drainage / contractor. Now in partnership with his | wife, he gives most of his attention ‘to raising bedding plants and flowers and /to floral work. Whatever time is left over is spent in hybridising with a variety of plants. Among his more unusual successes in this field is an abutilon which gives branches alternately throughout the plant with bright orange and chrome _ yellow. flowers. Always interested in showing, he has succeeded with gladioli, narcissi and chrysanthemum. Nowadays he is a prominent judge at district shows. Garden expert at 3YZ for a ‘little more than two and a-half years, Mr. | Jackson finds he had listeners both

north and south of Westland, as well as in Canterbury and in the North Island. Gardening, he admits, is much more than a job to him. He believes that it gives us a priceless reward in refreshing and steadying the mind and the emotions and in bringing us closer to lifé and growth and the mystical eternal forces of nature. "No percon ‘can really be happy without creative work," he says, "and there is none finer than gardening." Oz Jackson is also keenly interested in the early history of Westland. His broadcasts on this subject have aroused Dominion-wide interest, and he was recently appointed to the regional committee of the National Historic Places Trust.

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New Zealand Listener, Volume 35, Issue 896, 5 October 1956, Page 20

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NZBS GARDEN EXPERTS—7 New Zealand Listener, Volume 35, Issue 896, 5 October 1956, Page 20

NZBS GARDEN EXPERTS—7 New Zealand Listener, Volume 35, Issue 896, 5 October 1956, Page 20

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