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Hi
Kia ora and hello again.
Welcome to May's Bushmansfriend newsletter. I'm a little late this month with a flood and the school holidays delaying the plan. However all is good.
This month's photos
Myrsine salicina Toro
Another attractive NZ native tree that is ideal for ornamentation. A forest tree found from Northland to Greymouth with a handsome foliage display and small bunches of spring flowers.
Rimu male and female foliage.
Rimu produce male and female trees and with a bit of attention you can tell one from the other. The male is on the left and the foliage is prickly to touch due to its short stout leaves. The female on the right has slightly longer leaves and is softer to the touch.
Metrosideros fulgens the winter flowering Rata is an epiphytic climber which is flowering at the moment.It produces one of our most attractive flowers when little else is flowering.
North and South Article.
Look for this months (May) North and South magazine Pg100-10, there is a wonderful travel article by Elizabeth Light on her adventures in the Whangaroa Harbour. Titled "Gone Bush" the article reviews my Guided bushwalk and also Neil's Whangaroa Houseboat Rentals. It is very well written and captures the special ambience of Whangaroa.
"Down the other side of the ridge and along the Wairakau Valley the scenery is so stunning it hijacks our focus from flora. Great rock knobs punctuate the skyline, a waterfall cascades over a towering precipice, and the Wairakau river, crystal clear with deep swimming holes, has carved a a tall cliff-edged canyon. The valley floor is steamy, hot and lushly tropical with Ponga, Nikau, and Filmy Fern flourishing in rocky crevices and shady glades. Puriri are huge, scattering shiraz flowers across our path, and audaciously acrobatic Pohutukawa spread their branches extravagently while clinging to cliff edges with long gnarly toes."
The bush walk along the Wairakau Stream was described to me by a well travelled customer as one of the three most beautiful walks in New Zealand. (The other 2 were the Tongariro crossing and the Milford track!.) The Northland Air New Zealand inflight magazine supplement describes the walk as "One of the best guided walks you will find anywhere". To experience this walk, either guided or unguided follow this link
Have you discovered Youtube yet?. Youtube is a video hosting website that allows you to upload video files, then simply display them to the world or just the friends you nominate. Its surprisingly simple. Video of Whangaroa harbour by boat from here
New Zealand Fine prints of Native Plants
Pohutukawa Diana Adams
New Zealand Fine Prints Explore New Zealand Fine Prints' Online Art Store.Through this website you can easily find and purchase at affordable prices all New Zealand art prints currently available. New Zealand Fine Prints Ltd has been New Zealand's specialist supplier of fine art prints since 1966. Your purchases from are covered by a money back guarantee and your online order will be processed securely. Because all prints are held in stock we offer prompt delivery throughout NZ (for $6) or around the world (for $15).
Souvenirs and momentos from New Zealand Uniquely New Zealand Products
Maori bone and jade carvings The Bone Art place specializes in only the highest quality genuine work from the very best of local artists.
Real groovy for music, games,DVD's,books
Natural history books Check out our selection of natural history books that include everything from garden design, using natives in ornamentation, identifying New Zealand's plants and ecology.
Book of the month:
Nga Pepeha a nga Tipuna
The sayings of the ancestors
by Hirini Moko Mead & Neil Grove.
This unique collection of more than 2,500 pepeha, "sayings of the ancestors, " were gathered and compiled from all over New Zealand over a 20-year period. More than just proverbs, pepeha include charms, witticisms, figures of speech, and boasts, and they are featured in the formal speeches heard every day on the marae and in the oral literature handed down from past generations. The pepeha also provide a rich source of language, using metaphor and an economy of words to show language that enriches the textbook Maori of today. I have found this reference book fascinating for its rich source of Language, metaphor and insight into the natural world of Te Reo. Nga Pepeha allows the reader access to the imagery of the Maori language usually only reserved for competent Te Reo speakers. Highly recommended for all New Zealanders.
You can purchase this book on line from this Fishpond link or, I have gathered the proverbs that illustrate how NZ's native plants have been incorporated into imagery and metaphor, illustrating what the Tipuna valued and and considered to be good.from this link.
The Cats Pyjamas is a fine accomodation provider overlooking beautiful Cable Bay in Doubtless Bay. Highly recommended for that winter get away. Only 25 mins drive from Whangaroa. Check it out here.
Plant Nurserys and website operators. Check out what Bushmansfriend can offer you. Affiliate schemes are a no fuss way of creating a passive income.
Don't forget all the usual great content....
Native plant seeds for sale and germination strategies.60 species. Growing native plants from seed is fun, value for money, rewarding and helps the environment.
Species information, :Advice and hints on identification and cultivation of 80 common genera or species.
Photo galleries of New Zealand native plants fruits, bark, wood, flowers. Appreciate the intrinsic beauty of NZ's flora.
Newsletter Archive. Have you missed previous panui?.
Surfers friend. Absolutely nothing to do with plants.You can purchase some great photographic prints here.
Links to other web sites with information about New Zealand plants
Wairakau stream guided bush walk and boat trip Experience Whangaroa's natural heritage, Botany, Geology and History along with its marine environment.
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look after yourself..... and nature.
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