Chinese Garden

Bayfield High School pupils have performed at the Dunedin Chinese Garden to prepare for a trip to China.

Management of the Dunedin Chinese Garden is to be merged with the neighbouring Toitu Otago Settlers Museum as part of a shake-up designed to minimise the garden's cost to ratepayers.

Fish raised in a pond on an Arrowtown estate and given to the Dunedin Chinese Garden are proving smarter than their pet store counterparts, the garden manager says. Margo Reid said a shag could eat five fish in a single dive in the jade green waters of the Dunedin Chinese Garden.

Questions and suggestions were the order of the day for the manager of the Dunedin Chinese Garden, Margo Reid, when she appeared before city councillors yesterday to discuss the garden's financial future.

The Dunedin Chinese Garden could be in for a shake-up as visitor numbers continue to decline, leaving ratepayers to foot more of the bill.

Brian Ellis demonstrated the ancient Chinese art of Pen Jin and its Japanese counterpart bonsai at the Chinese Garden yesterday as part of its New Year celebrations.

Staff at Dunedin's Chinese Gardens are "gutted" after two people scaled the gardens walls yesterday, ran around inside and then damaged the place trying to get out.

The Dunedin Chinese Garden has been designated a garden of national significance.

The tide has turned in a desperate battle for survival at the Dunedin Chinese Garden.

More than 50 years of amateur photography resulted in a win for Dunedin man Keith McMillan (74).