Griselinia Crescent in Wigram and too new for library website. It is probably named after a plant. I did check ancestry website as I was expecting it to be named after a member of the Dellaca family. As I started writing this I decided to have another google and found information on the council website – Griselinia is a genus of seven species of shrubs and trees, with a highly disjunct distribution native to New Zealand and South America. It is a classic example of the Antarctic flora. It is a broadleaf, named for Franseco Griselini, an Italian naturalist from the 1700s.

This street is on maps but it hasn’t been developed or formed yet. The developers map on the council website was interesting as it was showing several houses on a section where I know that there is only one house.

Agathis Crescent in Wigram and too new for library website. It would have been named after a plant. This street wasn’t here last time I was in the area. I was checking one of my geocaches in Zinnia Park. Note it seems to be missing. The park was much smaller then and today I was able to walk to this street. When I hid the geocache in the park there was a paddock where there is now this street. Houses were built between 2022 and 2024 and they all looked almost exactly the same but I didn’t get a photo. It is a bit of a pity as almost all of them had a red front door and this amused me. The crescent runs off Brusio Drive and this is where my iphone got confused as Apple maps said that not only was the street in Hornby but had part of Brusio Drive as being Agathis Crescent. Luckily google maps had it correctly in Wigram and had it as a crescent and not a rectangle shape.

Edited as I found information on the council website – Agathis, commonly known as kauri, is a genus of 22 species of evergreen tree. The name agathis is derived from Greek and means ‘ball of thread’ for the distinctive cone. The kauri is the most famous native tree in New Zealand, mainly because it is among the largest trees in the world.

Ensete Road in Wigram and too new for the library website. It would have been named after a plant. Houses here were built between 2018 and 2021 and no photos as none of them stood out for me. Modern houses with lawns and a few shrubs. Footpath on only one side of the street. What came to mind was boring.

Hosta Lane in Wigram and too new for the library website. It will have been named after a plant. The valuation website said that the houses were built in 2018 which surprised me as I walked this area in 2020 and I don’t recall any houses here. When I walked Myrtle Rd and Brusio Drive in 2020 I made a note that there were houses being built and a couple of unnamed streets here.

I didn’t walk this street as it was another narrow private lane with no footpaths. It was also a crescent shape which is unusual for a lane. No photos for this street

Dianthus Place in Wigram and too new for the library website. It would have been named after a plant. Houses built between 2020 and 2022 but none stood out for me. Footpath on only one side of the street and the best thing about the street was the walkway through to another walkway.

Snapdragon Lane in Wigram and too new for the library website. The street would have been named after a plant. The houses were built between 2020 and 2022. I didn’t walk this street as it was a private lane with no footpath. Weird shape for a lane as it was crescent shaped.

Lotus Place in Wigram and it is too new for the library website. It will have been named after a plant. The houses here were built between 2022 and 2024 and they looked OK but mostly just lawns rather than gardens. This street is next to a motorway and there is a tall fence between the motorway and the street but it could still get noisy. The footpath was on only one side of the street and even though there was plenty of parking in the street there were cars parked on yellow no parking lines. Get the feeling that I wasn’t overly impressed with the street.

Tea Tree Lane in Wigram and it is too new for the library website. It will have been named after the tree. It runs off Owaka Rd and this street wasn’t there when I walked Owaka Rd in 2020.

I didn’t actually walk this street as there wasn’t a footpath and there was only a couple of businesses here plus I didn’t feel like getting run over by a big truck.

Pistacia Place in Hornby – Named after pistacia plants which are a variety of shrubs and small trees. Pistacia trees were approved by the Christchurch City Council as a landscaping tree to complement the Little Gem magnolias which were planted on 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 and the street is tree lined. Houses built between 2016 and 2021 plus there are still empty sections. There is a walkway that runs behind this street which I walked to get back to my car. The houses were varied enough for the street to look OK and a few gardens but I didn’t particularly like the street. There was a weird smell here and I was wondering if it was the reserve behind the street as the reserve was a bit swampy in parts. When I walked through the reserve there wasn’t a smell so it must be something in the street. The footpath was also on only one side of the street and we all know how much I dislike this.

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.