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Frank Sargeson’s garden

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Frank Sargeson’s garden

Writer Frank Sargeson and Christine Cole sit among the tomato vines outside Sargeson’s house in Takapuna, Auckland, around 1950.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, John Reece Cole Collection

Reference: PAColl-7280-01

by John Reece Cole

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Matt Morris, Unpaid domestic work – Gardens, orchards and poultry, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/23334/frank-sargesons-garden (accessed 24 June 2026).

Story by Matt Morris, published 4 March 2010.