Weekend planting...I managed 6 trees planted today. They all came from the Oratia Nursery, the most amazing and enormous nursery of native plants. This top pic is about a quarter the size of the whole nursery. Mainly they supply wholesale I think, but on Saturdays are open to the public. Just wandering around is an outing in itself, and on such a beautiful day, was splendid. It does help to have some idea what your plant you are looking for actually looks like, or you could be wandering for hours, although the staff are great.
So I've got: a Towai - the small stick in the middle front of the pic with a couple of reddish leaves. Will grow into a biggish tree.
A Rewarewa (to left) a forest giant, and native fuscia to the right.
A Pittosporum Tenuifolium, to the right with small pale leaves, a medium sized tree, which will fill the gap and protect for wind. And a Five finger to the left, hard to see with the weeds behind, but has big leaves with 5 leaf bits per stem (surprise!), also a wind break type. I hope. This is my biggest, most exposed hole in the boundary.
And this, which is hard to see because it has tiny leaves, but it is a Putaputaweta, also a medium sized tree.
All these trees have flowers that the birds and bees enjoy.
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