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Botanic Gardens plaque, no. 85631

A plaque at Botanic Gardens, standing in Christchurch Central. The surveyor filed its words as unknown.

The ground
Botanic Gardens
The year
2006, the register’s commission
The register says
in service
The donor line
MAISON ROUGE LTD

Where it stands

The record’s own pin; the strong outline is the suburb around it, the rest are its neighbours.

The ground’s other names 171

163 more names stand on the same ground, the whole roll keeps them: /plaques.

In the archive

A name read off an inscription is a lead, not a verified identity, the search is where verification starts.

The ground under it

The plans and surveys kept here, asked once of the pin. The whole stack answers live: what stood on this ground →

Around it

The reports nearby

263 council reports pinned within 250 m of the point, most often Graffiti & vandalism and Trees & parks, 196 with a photograph. A pin is where a reporter stood, not a claim about the place itself.

Graffiti on a bus stop or public toilet Canterbury · 11 October 2026
Park - General Request New Zealand Icon Garden, Water Garden Riccarton Avenue, Christchurch Central City · 29 September 2026
Graffiti on a playground or in a park New Zealand Icon Garden, Water Garden Riccarton Avenue, Christchurch Central City · 29 September 2026
Graffiti on a playground or in a park 3410435, Christchurch Central City · 13 September 2026
Animal - Domestic Canterbury · 10 September 2026
Park - General Request Armagh St Bridge · 22 July 2026
Public Toilet Canterbury · 17 July 2026
Animal - General Canterbury · 20 June 2026
Park - General Request 8, 8013 Riccarton Avenue, Christchurch Central City · 31 May 2026

Questions, answered briefly

What is this?

A plaque of Christchurch, standing at Botanic Gardens in Christchurch Central, one record on the council’s plaque register for the public estate.

What does it say?

The surveyor filed the inscription as "unknown", the weathering won, or nobody transcribed it. The plaque still earns its page: it stands, the ground is named, and the record’s pin is real.

Are there others at Botanic Gardens?

172 plaques on the register share this ground, the others are linked above.

Is the plaque still standing?

The register marks it in service, commissioned 2006. The books' word, though, a plaque may have weathered since the survey, and the pin is the record’s position.

The record behind this

Christchurch City Council’s open data, the Furniture service’s Plaque layer. The inscription is the surveyor’s transcription; "In Service" is the books, not a promise the plaque still reads clean today. The pin is the record’s position on the layer.

This page as markdown: /plaque/85631-botanic-gardens.md · the roll: /plaques · the record as data: /plaques.json · on the big map: /map?layer=plaques · the monuments the crowd mapped: /memorial · what stood on this ground before: /before.