pohutukawa
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Welcome to Miramar, Wellington’s Pohutukawa Suburb
Source: ‘Wellington from the air, 1930‘, F. Douglas Mill Collection, Auckland Libraries Heritage Collections FDM-0570-G The photo above shows part of the Miramar Peninsula, Wellington. If you fly into Wellington when a southerly is blowing, you’ll be just above the strip of water with the land to your left. Struthers reports that the name ‘Miramar’…
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Forty two percent of Wellington’s Street Trees, or The Legacy of ‘Pohutukawa Mac’
In the ‘Pohutukawa Town‘ post I mentioned a man nicknamed ‘Pohutukawa Mac’. I suggested he deserved a post of his own given his role in promoting pohutukawa in Wellington. Recent reportage on the removal of some pohutukawa has convinced me to do this sooner rather than later. A Dominion Post article, ‘Pohutukawa felling causes concern‘…
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In Pohutukawa Town
I’ve lived in Wellington for 30 years now, and when I moved up from Christchurch, fairly claimed to be a ‘garden city’, I was a bit startled by the relative lack of tree planting in the central city. An exception though is the number of pohutukawa you can find either as street trees or planted…
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Encircling Problems: Pohutukawas and Some Other Palms
I finished the last post noting that when pohutukawa grow close by, or within the fibrous parts of Phoenix palms, sooner or later a decision will have to be made about which of the two plants is to remain. If a Phoenix palm crown grows above the spread and height of an old pohutukawa, it…
