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The gardening sister, Loyola Galvin may have retired but she is still gardening.
The nun in her early 90s was invested by Governor-General Sir Jerry Mateparae in a ceremony at Government House last week. She was made a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to gardening.
For more than 15 years she tended the gardens at Our Lady’s Home of Compassion in Island Bay on Wellington’s south coast. Surplus vegetables produced in the garden were donated to a soup kitchen which served a hot meal each evening for 60 to 100 people.
She was New Zealand Gardener magazine’s gardener of the year in 2008, and a documentary called Gardening With Soul was made about her.
In recent months she has moved to the sisters’ retirement complex in Silverstream. Continue reading
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