street trees
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‘Better by the Dozen’: The Mexican fan palm in early New Zealand gardens. Part 2
In part 1 of this post I took some poetic license with ‘better by the dozen’, but we can start here with a case where there are literally a dozen palms under consideration. Consider this extract from an article in the Wanganui Herald: Mr Heinold lived at 3 Blythe Street, which is near the top…
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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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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…
