In 2017, I was able to grow Sonchus kirkii, the original perennial sow thistle (puha or rauriki), an important traditional vegetable of the Maori which I’d long wanted […]
Edimentals / Garden tour
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Edibles in Dunedin Botanics
At long last, an album of pictures of edible plants spotted in the Dunedin Botanic Garden during my late summer visit on 26th March 2015, as part of […]
weather
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Rain on the way
There was a little sprinkling of rain in the night again (here on a pot grown Phormium from NZ)! Although everything is still green, another couple of weeks […]
Coastal plants / Perennial vegetables / Seaweed
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New Zealand Celery and Porpoise Bay
I haven’t shown many pictures from my fantastic tour of New Zealand in March / April 2015. I was transplanting some plants of New Zealand Celery at the […]