The Waipa District Council refers to this park as Ferguson Park, as the nearby low-level bridge is known officially as the Ferguson Bridge. Our name for it, Riverview Park Cambridge, is descriptive.

We made our first planting in March, 2022. It was a bit early, since reliable rain doesn't come until the end of April as a rule, though with climate change ramping up, anything could happen.

We have hundreds of rengarenga in our nursery and needed to put some in the ground. They're fairly tolerant of dry conditions, and there has been some rain lately, along with morning dew which covers any car left outside. We planted about 210 in Riverview Park Cambridge and barely dented the supply in the nursery. Rengarenga (arthropodium cirratum) are a good plant for filling in spaces. They cover the ground and propagate freely. They're native, too.