whanganui
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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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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…
