For readers who continue to think that the name ‘Little Gem’ means this is a dwarf tree that will only reach two or maybe three metres high, I offer you these plants photographed from Sydney daughter’s third floor balcony.
Latest Posts: 1) Magnolia Athene in all her glory in Plant Collector this week and gratitude for the mid season varieties. 2) New Zealand’s Native Trees by John Dawson and Rob Lucas. Thank you Craig Potton Publishing for not cutting corners, simplifying and dumbing down on the assumption that most of us have the mental […]
My current project is planting a perennial meadow. Not a wildflower meadow. Much and all as we find annuals like soldier poppies, blue cornflowers and cosmos hugely charming, they are not wildflowers to New Zealand and basically that is gardening with annuals, freshly sowing seed each season.
Trees generate the very oxygen we breathe as well as contributing to ecosystems and the environment.
I do think some plants need to know their place in life. Some clamour for way more attention than they deserve.
Tikorangi The Jury Garden 