Little Gem Road in the suburbs of Wigram and Hornby, Christchurch

Little Gem Road in Wigram / Hornby – Named after Little Gem, a variety of magnolia. Little Gems were approved by the Christchurch City Council as a landscaping tree along the berms of the larger of the two roads in the Magnolia Estate subdivision. Named in 2015

A small amount of information from the library website but they had the street as Little Gems Rd but it is Little Gem Rd. The library has it in Hornby but the valuation website puts it into Wigram. Edited to say that half of the street is in Wigram and the other half is in Hornby. The older houses are at the Hornby end of the street.

The older houses from 2016 are at one end of the street and this part of the street is tree lined. The houses at the Owaka Rd end of the street were built in 2023 and 2024 plus there are still a few empty sections. There is a reserve on one side of the street at the Owaka Rd end. There is a variety of styles of houses here and some have flowers and shrubs. There is a Montessori school on this street. Many houses had interesting garden decorations but one particularly caught my eye and I did take a photo. It had a handmower painted yellow with the word redundant above it. The reason that the lawn mower at this house is redundant is that they have artificial grass. I have occasionally been tempted to get artificial grass but it isn’t good for the environment. I will stick to my wildness area at my house.