plants
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Cemetery Gold
I wasn’t intending to do another post on macrocarpa so soon, but while visiting Whanganui I came across a cluster of 16 gold-foliaged macrocarpa. I knew a little about the garden history of Whanganui from compiling New Zealand Tree Register entries on the Phoenix palms at Virginia Lake and at Queen’s Park, and from writing…
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Under the macrocarpa, Part 1
As windbreaks, macrocarpa trees are part of our landscape, the gnarled border to many paddocks. Their outstretched limbs offer shelter to sheep. … Like most New Zealanders, I have always pronounced macrocarpa with an extra ‘a’ in place of the ‘o’. Elsewhere, it’s known as Monterey cypress. For whatever reason we’ve decided here to call…
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Plant Identification: hold fire on the app
Recently I travelled to the small rural town of Cheviot in North Canterbury because I’d learnt there were many significant trees there. Some were planted in the 1870s when it was a large rural estate owned by ‘Ready Money’ Robinson. The old estate was broken up before the 1900s, and the land is now called…
