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get growing 14 February 2020
top tasks
• Hydrate seedlings
• Prune plum trees
• Do a spot of pollarding
• Propagate trees
• Become a tree
feed me
Tonics your
WE HEART plants will love
FLOWERS
Florists on what
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from Wet & Forgetfrom the editors
Rachel Clare is two years Riverton food forester
into creating a new garden and heirloom apple tree
in West Auckland with hunter Robert Guyton
flowers, veges, fruit trees, is our gardening guru
beehives and boys. from the deep south.
Southland’s been underwater,
at least a good chunk of it has
– farmland and gardens alike all
submarine and likely to suffer from
the inundation of not only water,
but soil and silt, chemicals and
contaminants of all sorts. It’s a dire
situation for those affected and the
job of cleaning up will be a tough
one. Gardeners in the region were
already chastised by a summer of
cloud and rain but this drowning
of their vegetables and flowers by
overflowing rivers will be hard to take.
Fortunately for me, my own garden
is unaffected by the flooding, as I
live on the side of a hill well above
the waterline, and rain is quickly
absorbed by the naturally occurring
mulch that rains gently down from
the trees above as the seasons turn.feedback
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Tuscany or Maungaturoto?
These sunflowers are grown on
an organic farm called Wharepuke
Organics in Maungaturoto. It’s been
run by the Finlayson family for 150
years. The sunflowers are grown to
supplement the cow’s feed during
the very dry and hot summers in
Northland. No wonder the organic
milk tastes so good!
Alison Shrigley, Whangarei
Who says we can’t be friends
I planted some sunflower seedlings
next to my beans before I read that
these two are supposedly “bad
companions”. Neither of them have
suffered by being bed mates! In
fact, the sunflowers are the best I
have ever grown and the beans are
producing well!
Val Crooks, AmberleyCurly customers
I was fascinated by this overgrown responsible for this. Products
ribbed courgette in my daughter’s containing these dangerous
garden in Takaka. chemicals that are designed to wipe
Maria Rohs, Christchurch out insects are readily available
throughout New Zealand even
Say no to neonicotinoids though they have been banned from
I notice that a reader in the many countries. A change in our
January 31 issue said that she regulations is needed to prevent
had not seen as many bugs and further loss of the essential insects
This baited poster was eaten by predators in
insects this year. The widespread needed for our survival. the New Zealand bush. Here, 72,000 native
birds, chicks and eggs are killed every day.
use of neonicotinoids is probably Peggy Duncan, Greytown Protect them from rats, stoats and possums
by donating at forestandbird.org.nz/protecttop tasks GARDENING
by the moon
Look for pests
today, and take
action if you
find them! From
By Robert Guyton Saturday until
Wednesday, spread
fertiliser, cultivate
soil and remove weeds.
Sow root crops
on Thursday.
quench
1 their
thirst
to dehydration and unable to recover
Seedling trees in your nursery need from being dried out.
close attention when the weather A methodical gardener will have
is hot and there is no rain. If you a regular watering programme
haven’t an automatic watering arranged for new sowings at this
system, you’ll have to pay attention time of year. Warm the water before
to the soil in the pots and bags you applying as seedlings do not like
are growing your plants in, to ensure cold showers. Leaving a watering
it doesn’t dry out. can in the sun for a while can quickly
Any tree, shrub or vine seeds you bring tap water up to a bearable
are sowing now have to be carefully temperature. Shade also helps a lot
monitored, as newly emerged in giving seedlings a good chance
seedlings are particularly susceptible of survival.
PHOTO: ROBERT GUYTONtop tasks
‘Victoria‘ and three others we don’t
know the names of. All of them have
grown too big and have been shading
prune
2
their neighbours, causing them to
plum produce fruit more thinly than they
trees would in the open, so I’ve been busy
with my pruning saw. I use the “what
So long as you still have a garden I feel is right” approach to pruning
after last week’s floods, it’ll need and rely on my sense of aesthetics to
attention of one sort or another. Mine produce a good looking and healthy
is a garden of trees, primarily, and tree by the time I’ve finished.
some of those require work in the I don’t like to make unnecessary
summertime, no matter how cool work for myself in the garden, so I
and cloudy it is. This is the season leave the fallen branches, twigs and
for pruning plum trees and the leaves where they fall, calling on
reason why plums are best trimmed visitors (young travellers who wish to
now, rather than during the winter help and learn at the same time) to
when apple trees get their turn, is reduce the prunings down to small
to do with vigour. Winter pruning of pieces with loppers in order to speed
apples results in vigorous growth up the break-down process and get
in the springtime, something the that woody material sequestered in
grower wants, but plum trees are the soil through the action of fungi,
already over vigorous and have to primarily, but other soil creatures too.
be reduced in both size and energy Creating carbon-rich soils, made from
at a time when pruning equals less lignin is the best way to contribute to
growth, which is, now. the saving of the planet as well, so I
I’ve six very large plum trees; an count that as another reason to tend
‘Omega‘, a ‘George Wilson Early‘, a to my trees in the way I do.
PHOTO: ROBERT GUYTONtop tasks
cut trees
3
In the forest garden or orchard,
down the method provides a way to fill
to size in the middle space at head height,
with fresh growth, and at the same
Many gardeners nowadays know time let in light that had been lost
what coppicing is: regularly cutting to a too-thick canopy. I pollard my
certain trees at ankle-height to guelder roses (Viburnum opulus)
encourage regrowth as a way to when they become too top heavy
control otherwise large trees. I and light excluding. I’ve done them
practice coppicing here with my this month, and can see the already-
hazel and sweet chestnut trees in formed replacement branches and
order to grow sticks that are useful how the tree will look once they are
for a variety of purposes: hurdle encouraged to grow. Again, I like
fences, teepees for beans and peas to chop the branches up and leave
to climb, and so on. them lying at the base of the tree in
Pollarding is a similar technique, only order to feed the soil.
the cut is made higher up the tree and Willows can be pollarded in summer
its main purpose is to keep trees at a if feed is needed for livestock
manageable height, especially those and the grass has dried up due
growing beneath power lines. Councils to hot conditions like those being
employ pollarding to save us a lot of experienced in some parts of the
inconvenience. country right now (not Southland).
PHOTO: PIXABAYtop tasks
remove problem
4
can be gifted or sold, if you choose,
trees, then or planted elsewhere in your garden.
propagate more The process is beyond easy and
requires only that you fill a bucket
Some trees need to be removed with water and drop the mostly-
altogether and now’s a good time de-leafed cuttings into it as you
to do that work. Anything planted are reducing the fig to a memory.
too close to the house that is Stripping all but a couple of tip
threatening to break a wall or leaves from the cuttings ensures
veranda, as my brown turkey fig is that their chance of producing
presently doing, is a candidate for roots quickly is high. It pays, when
removal. Rather than consign all using this method of propagation,
of the branches to the mulching to replace the water regularly so it
process, good use can be made of doesn’t grow algae. Check for roots
the growing tips at least, by using at the same time as they may appear
them to create more fig trees. These more quickly than you expect.
PHOTO: ROBERT GUYTONtop tasks
think like a tree
5 & vegetalise
yourself
I learned this phrase recently, while
listening to an interview with Natasha
Myers, an associate professor at
York University and director of
the Plant Studies Collaboratory. She suggests a kind of meditation
She talked about trees and their where we picture ourselves as a
capacity for feeling, thought and tree, leaves to roots, and try to feel
communication. Natasha believes the processes inside a tree; drinking
humans, gardeners in particular, can water through our roots, taking in CO2
establish relationships with plants, through the thousands of stomata in
especially those we are close to – our leaves and so on. If we learn to
seedlings we’ve set in motion, indoor empathise with trees, she teaches,
plants we know intimately, old friends we will get a better steer on how
in the orchard and forest we may we should behave in the wider
have picked fruit from or climbed as environment and perhaps turn from
children. the destructive path we seem to
If we want to understand trees, have taken. I think her suggestions
Natasha says, we have to not only are good and they certainly can’t do
observe them closely but also any harm. In any case, my wife tells
make ourselves more like them by me I’m beginning to look like a hoary
imagining how they feel, what they old tree, so I might as well go the
experience, what space they occupy. whole nine yards.
PHOTO: PIXABAY“Feed me!” shrieked Audrey, the
carnivorous, short-tempered
plant in the show Little Shop of
Horrors. What Audrey wanted,
she inevitably got, such were her
powers of persuasion, and what she
craved was fresh blood! While we
gardeners are all greatly relieved
that the plants in our care don’t
make the same gruesome demands
upon us, we are still required to feed
our plants with whatever we are
able to find, make, brew or mix up
that will satisfy their planty needs.
Curiously, and still thinking of the
meat-eating Audrey, some gardeners
do feed their plants with blood but
it’s mixed with bone and dehydrated
and powdered so it doesn’t look
visceral. The fact is, plants will eat
animal products, or even animals
feeding time themselves, and do well by it.
Vegans and other sensitive souls
From worm wee to compost tea, there’s more than one might eschew blood and bone as
way to give a plant a healthy tipple, says Robert Guyton a food for their plants, especiallythose that grow inside the house, and use instead a wide range of plant foods made from non-animal products and substances. Those who use ex-abattoir materials in their gardens are, in my experience, generally older, male growers of potatoes and perhaps rose growers too, but I’m not certain of that. I expect they keep such practices close to their chests in these times of delicate sensitivities. Gardeners employ mined minerals to some extent in the provision of food for their plants: lime in its various forms, serves as a “sweetener” for the soil and affects the performance and behaviour of plants, changing the colour of pH- sensitive flowering plants and built in my own garden in an old iron Robert's repurposed bath encouraging anything that dislikes bath, are a source of safe-to-apply makes a perfect worm farm. acidic soils. It improves conditions plant food that costs nothing and incidentally as well, by making replenishes itself endlessly, so long ”herbal tea” for your plants out of worms feel more welcome in the as the worms themselves get fed comfrey, nettle, dock, dandelion or garden. The casts they deposit as with organic materials ranging from any plant that has a deep root that they chew their way between the kitchen scraps to yesterday’s seeks out nutrients and trace roots of plants directly feed the plant newspapers. elements. Such plants “capture” above with a very valuable, well- Feeding one’s plants with liquid minerals from deeper in the ground balanced, enzyme-rich “tonic”. food produced on-site is a very than most plants can reach, then Worm farms, one of which I’ve just satisfying thing, as is making a store them in their leaves, providing PHOTO PREVIOUS PAGE: PIXABAY; THIS PAGE: ROBERT GUYTON.
Dock leaves have long roots
that capture minerals from
deep in the ground.
home, is wonderful plant food,
applied on or under the soil in its
crumbly “chocolate cake mix” form,
or as a liquid extract.
A couple of handfuls of compost
dropped into a big bucket of warm
water and left to soak for a couple
of days makes a healthy pick-me-
up for plants. Much of the value of
compost and compost teas comes
from the live beneficial bacteria
an opportunity for the gardener to that inhabit good composts, which
extract them by soaking or continue to grow, breed, exude
fermenting them to produce a their good substances favoured by
healthy drink that provides plants hungry plants and generally protect
with whatever it is they can’t get the plants from unfriendly micro-
otherwise. Gardeners often disdain organisms. That bacterial
deep-rooted plants because they are population can be increased
difficult to dig out, dock being the markedly by providing extra oxygen
classic hard-to-shift, grip-the-ground to the brew. An old aerator from an
“weed”. Regarded as a source of aquarium is ideal for the job, and
sustenance for plants rather than an adding some sweetness in the
immovable object designed to form of molasses and a pinch of
frustrate the gardener, docks and humic acid will create a super brew
their cousins can be a boon. that will boost your plants’ growth
Compost, especially that made at considerably.
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It’s possible that florists might be
wondering if romance is slightly
overrated as they start work in the
wee smalls this Valentine’s Day in
order to meet the demand of their
busiest day of the year.
Alanah Conner, owner of A Twisted
Bunch in Darfield, Canterbury, says
she sells at least five times as many
flowers this week than any other
week in the year. “We'll probably
work until 10pm the night before,
then start again at 5am pre-making
bunches.” The tricky part is
estimating how many bunches to
make in advance as most of her
Valentine’s Day customers, around
80 per cent of them men, generally
don’t preorder: “Lots of farmers in
their gumboots turn up on the day.”
we heart flowers And what’s their flower of choice?
Red roses of course – the enduring
Rachel Clare asked florists from
if slightly unoriginal symbol of love
around the country to tell us what they (apparently sunflowers are a popular
really think about Valentine’s Day choice too). Because the demand forred roses is huge, with many From left: Alanah Conner from
growers timing their picking to meet A Twisted Bunch in Darfield.
the Valentine’s Day demand,
wholesale prices are triple the
normal amount, necessitating florists In contrast, our major supermarket
to raise their prices – a bunch of a chains order more than 300,000
dozen red roses from a florist for imported red rose stems, which are
Valentine’s Day costs more than plastic-wrapped in New Zealand by
$100. “I point out to customers that teams working until 3am in the week
they get better value for money and leading up to Valentine’s. A single
a more expensive-looking bunch red rose from the supermarket will
with an arrangement of mixed cost you $4.99 as opposed to $20
flowers, such as lisianthus, lilies and from a florist, but you pay for what
other coloured roses,” says Alanah, you get and these roses generally
but many are not swayed. only last a day, plus the romance
Alanah pre-orders her roses in mid- dies a bit if you consider the air
January and tries to buy 100 per cent miles that rose has travelled, the
New Zealand-grown stems (most of single-use plastic and the possibility
her roses come from Moffat’s in that your rose comes from a farm
Canterbury) because she says the with unethical working conditions
quality is far superior to imported (historically, child labour on Colombian
roses from India and Colombia. flower farms has been rampant).
“They’re treated with nasty stuff and If you’re into loving the environment
they don’t last long. It’s super as well as your Valentine, Auckland
important to me to support local florist Liv Wakem advises opting for
growers as well.” However because locally grown flowers wrapped in
demand is so high, usually her order recyclable paper. “Refuse any plastic
has to be supplemented with wrapping or, even better, bring a
imported roses – this year 80 per vase from home for us to fill.”
cent are locally grown. Describing herself as an ostrich
PREVIOUS PAGE: PIXABAY; THIS PAGE: ALANAH CONNER.with its head in the sand when it At Kensal Flower Studio Liv
comes to Valentine’s Day, Liv, who Wakem sells garden-style
sells garden-inspired flowers from arrangements and her shop
Kensal Flower Studio in Kingsland, is full of vintage inspiration.
says she avoids thinking about it
until a few days before.“It all gets a included Nigella Lawson and Idris
bit mad otherwise. We don’t buy the Elba), says that while the majority
flowers until the 13th, so it’s a long of Valentine’s Day customers are
day. Many florists will spread the men, she thinks the meaning of
load and buy throughout the week, Valentine’s Day should be
keeping the flowers in a chiller, but broadened. “We are big fans of
we would rather have them fresh ‘Galentines’ – giving flowers to your
straight from the market and our best friend, your mum, your
local growers.” daughter; a powerful woman in your
Liv, who learnt the trade while life who means the most to you.
working for upmarket London-based Valentine’s doesn’t have to be just
florist Scarlet & Violet (customers for the lovers.” But because red roses
PHOTOS: RACHEL CLARE.are traditionally the flower of love, Liv Jeanie McCafferty from Next
says she’ll source a few locally grown Stop Earth in Wellington
ones in for Valentine’s Day, “But given prefers pot plants to red roses.
the option, I would rather have an
armful of cosmos. Red roses are florist on Wellington’s Lambton Quay
ridiculously expensive.” in the late ’60s, Valentine’s Day
There won’t be a red rose in sight flowers weren’t even a thing. “Apart
at Jeanie McCafferty’s shop Next from maybe reading about it or
Stop Earth in Newtown, Wellington. learning about it from American TV
Jeanie, who has been selling fresh programmes, nobody really knew
flowers, pot plants and gardening- about Valentine’s Day at all.“ Dale
themed gifts for 24 years, says, “We says that it was during the ’90s that
really don’t do anything special for Valentine’s Day grew into the
Valentine’s Day because I think the monster that it is today. “One year
flowers are too expensive. We there was a queue out the door,
haven’t sold red roses for probably then every year the roses got more
15 years.” Jeannie doesn’t do and more expensive. ”
deliveries to workplaces on So do florists ever receive flowers on
Valentine’s Day either. “The pressure Valentine’s Day, or at any other time
on the couriers is crazy and I hear for that matter? A Twisted Bunch's
there can be a lot of peer pressure Alanah says her partner is too nervous
and competitiveness in workplaces, to buy her flowers, but brings her
which I find distasteful. I know it’s a other plants, such as mossy branches
radical view but I think why would from the mountains or bundles of
you buy flowers on a day that’s been wheat, which she appreciates.
so commercialised?" Liv at Kensal Flower Studio says she
And if you’re wondering when all never gets given flowers on Valentine’s
this Valentine’s Day hype started, Day, but she doesn’t mind. “A glass of
retired florist Dale du Fresne says wine at the end of all the madness is
that when she began working as a much more appreciated!”
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where mysterious dreams have Feilding; Dallas Nesbitt, Auckland;
come to life. Ethel Goodfellow, Coopers Beach;
In the 1920s and ’30s many Chris Archibold, West Melton;
artists and writers became Sally Wren, Christchurch.
fascinated with the irrational, the Phostrogen from Burnet’s:
incongruous and almost anything Margaret Moynihan, Nelson;
provocative. They were inspired by Kristine Beach, Havelock;
the work of Sigmund Freud, and Sandrine de Rienzo, Nelson; April
sometimes sought to interpret the Higham, Te Awamutu; Patricia
mysterious world of dreams and the Gould, Pukekohe; Hans Recter,
subconscious mind. There wasn’t The inclusion of idiosyncratic, Picton. Potted anthurium from
a surrealist garden movement, but unexpected, weird or irrelevant Gellerts: Vincent Cunliffe,
there have long been surrealist features can become surreal, such Christchurch; Cindy Penny,
elements found in gardens. as in the garden of Casa Salvador Auckland; Kenneth Hogan,
In this garden, the intention is that Dali in Spain. In Hamilton Gardens’ Auckland; Sheryll Smith,
everything is five times the normal surrealist garden, the unexpected Hamilton; Jan-Louise Hamblyn,
scale. Of the strange biomorphic includes a passage and fireplace and Whanganui.
shapes clad in ivy and referred to a dozen white noses (instead of a
as the “trons“, Hamilton Gardens dozen white roses).
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our twist on the tradition of carving 7.30am–7.30pm during summer mayor Paula Southgate and seeds, plants or projects or recipes
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