KCC Seed Collecting on Mother’s Day, 14 May 2017
Just like how our children grow, so do the trees in our forests. I lined the children up from tallest to shortest showing that like how they grow, so do the trees. The trees start as a tiny seed and grows bigger and bigger…
We then had a wonderful time looking for seeds around the Southland Community Nursery and nearby Bushy Point, finding and collecting harakeke/flax, ti kouka/ cabbage tree, kohuhu/ pittosporum, koromiko/ willow-leaved hebe, and Manuka/ tea tree seeds. We looked at what size and colour they were and how they can be dispersed around our forests to find somewhere to grow.
We talked about how we eco source seeds and propagate native plants at the Southland Community Nursery in order to grow around 10,000 plants per year for planting in and around the community.
We had fun climbing cabbage trees, completing the Mother’s Day scavenger hunt, seeing a nursery web spider (very well camouflaged in the mingimingi), seeing weta in the Bushy Point super sleuth bug motel, delighted in the numerous piwakawaka/ fantail follow us everywhere, and finished with a fabulous double rainbow over the nursery pond. We took seeds home to plant. This was a great way to spend a Mother’s Day afternoon. Bronwyn
Posted: 16 May 2017