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Cook’s scurvy grass is New Zealand’s No.1 plant for 2005 – despite the silver fern being the proudest NZ brand globally, according to a public vote released today.
New Zealanders have been voting for months on the New Zealand Plant Conservation Network website on what their favourite native plant is this year.
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Plant me instead is a new book published this week by the Department of Conservation in conjunction with local authorities in the lower North Island. It provides gardeners with environmnetally friendly alternatives to use in gardens instead of exotic weed species.
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Mr Ewen Cameron is having a great year. Already he has won the prestigious Loder Cup for his conservation efforts, and yesterday evening this was capped by the formal presentation of the New Zealand Botanical Society equivalent award, the Allan Mere by that societies President, Mr Anthony Wright, at the evening meeting of the Auckland Botanical Society.
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The magenta-flowered Napuka/Titirangi (Hebe speciosa (Plantaginaceae)) is one of New Zealand’s best known hebes especially because it has been widely used for plant breeding purposes, and so is the ancestor of many hebe cultivars. In the wild 7 of the 14 accepted “wild “populations have gone extinct over the last 100 years, and a further two are teetering on the brink of extinction. A recent paper now suggests that only three populations are natural, the rest stem from deliberate plantings by old time Maori…..
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A grove of some of the rarest trees on the planet to be auctioned by Sothebys next week have been named after a New Zealander. The Network today launched a campaign to raise funds from corporations and wealthy conservationists in a bid to buy a grove of the rare Wollemi pine. The Wollemi pine is considered one of the world’s rarest tree species and was discovered in the Blue Mountains west of Sydney in 1994.