Lady Anne
1990 Bob married Lady Anne Palmer. She had a reputation as a gardener in England. She founded Rosemoor Garden, and donated it to the Royal Horticultural Society when she followed Bob to New Zealand. Her influence on the homestead garden of Hackfalls has been quite considerable. She created a garden with well grown specimens of many interesting shrubs and plants, cultivars as well as (endemic) species, including Muehlenbeckia astonii.
Anne has encouraged the family to form the Hackfalls Arboretum Charitable Trust, to attracts grants to be invested so that a the maintenance of the arboretum can be continued.
July 2006 Lady Anne and Bob Berry changed home to the town of Gisborne. Since then Diane Playle, cares for the arboretum, assisted by a small group of volunteers.
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