Capture: Spring is Like a Perhaps Hand
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Lilith __, in reply to
both lacebark & ribbonwood (tree) were used as plaiting/woven material…
I've seen some amazing woven lacebark. I can't imagine how difficult it must be to work with, being so delicate and fragile.
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Leigh Russell, in reply to
Stand on that thing! Looks like a porina to me-
Hi Islander, thanks for the identification - looking at other photos I'm sure you are right.
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Leigh Russell, in reply to
both lacebark & ribbonwood (tree) were used as plaiting/woven material…
It's amazing stuff! The round house we lived in had a lacebark which must have been pruned or something similar, because I remember watching the birds come and take strips of lace from it - presumably for nesting.
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Islander, in reply to
It is * exceedingly tough* and always manipulatable – as kids, in the bush, (where there wasnt flax, we used it as string.You strip some of the bark off, and use the under bark.)
Olds at Moeraki made kete & potae from it – it was a kind of South Island thing- -
Islander, in reply to
I have a half-rebushed place which – because I’ve got birds around – and no cats-I have a lot of species nesting here. One year, I’d cut off branches of the big lacewood, which got a bit smacked around in the felling. A rirerire used some of the inner bark – the lace – to line her cup-nest.Because I love both grey-warblers AND
pipiwharauroa,I’ve been tempted to do that again – a last gift from me to the birds of Big O- -
Hebe,
Lilith's ribbonwood is the mature version -- at first they go up, column-like. Then grow a crown like the picture. The graceful narrow-leafed lacebark Hoheria angustifolia can look rather like a ribbonwood when it's young.
@Islander: Have been derailed by four birthdays, a significant anniversary and big things happening, all since Monday. Tomorrow, I get to the computer hooked up to email to reply to you! Please accept my apologies. It has been a life-changing week!
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Islander, in reply to
Dont you love’em? All the happenings? Enjoy!n/n Islander
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Hebe, in reply to
Happy happenings this week, as opposed to unhappy happenings ;-)
All the talk of the tree fuschia reminds me of its brilliant purple-blue berries, and dianella nigra, or turutu, which has the most stunning bright blue berries (very poisonous so I didn't grow while the children were young).
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Islander, in reply to
All the talk of the tree fuschia reminds me of its brilliant purple-blue berries, and dianella nigra, or turutu, which has the most stunning bright blue berries (very poisonous so I didn’t grow while the children were young).
I know turutu - the lovely berries fall off you so much as brush past.. they are not
poisonous as far as I know (we certainly werent warned about them as kids- but we werent told they were edible either,) and I cant find any mention of them in Murdoch-
ka mihi - n/n Islander -
Hebe, in reply to
Here’s a ref that supports both our thinkings on this:
www.landcareresearch.co.nz/publications/infosheets/poisonplantsI shall consult some books! Tomorrow; for me it is time to sleep. Good night Islander
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Sorry Islander, I was too lazy to check my claim about the deciduousness of the kowhai. I now remember it is the fuchsia that is famous for it.
But the kowhai I have known well lost leaves before their spectacular spring display.. And maybe I'm half right:
"The beautiful, semi-deciduous, yellow-flowered kowhai is arguably the best known New Zealand tree. " From the Yates website ...
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A stormy weekend but spring clings on:
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The first buds of wisteria
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"Dim parcio" is Welsh for "No Parking"--but we did once receive a letter addressed to "Dear Mr Parcio ...."
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Kumara Republic, in reply to
"Dim parcio" is Welsh for "No Parking"--but we did once receive a letter addressed to "Dear Mr Parcio ...."
That reminds me of the Prawo Jazdy story in Ireland not too long ago.
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Leigh Russell, in reply to
That reminds me of the Prawo Jazdy story in Ireland not too long ago.
Hello DeepRed, your link doesn't seem to work...
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Kumara Republic, in reply to
Hello DeepRed, your link doesn't seem to work...
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Leigh Russell, in reply to
Most amusing - good to be able to laugh at our own absurdity! :-)
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Saw this coprosma when out walking today. I love its profusion!
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Jos,
Can I hassle you with another 3d from this lovely morning...
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Jos,
and perhaps a 3D helibore
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Nora Leggs, in reply to
a 3D helibore
O finally, these pics just drifted x-eyed all by themselves. Are they a bit smaller than the others you posted, must suit my eyes better : ) The Helibore works better than the trees in my eyes ...
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Jos,
Wow cool, so pleased you can see them! Some work easier than others.
Try this kowhai one then...
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Lilith __, in reply to
Oh yay, I can do these ones! Although the trees seem to bulge in the middle :-)
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Sofie Bribiesca, in reply to
Oh yay, I can do these ones!
Still no for me. Other half found it immediately. I cant keep my eyes crossed long enough dammit. Must be a side effect from my stroke or a brain defect from my haemorrhage. I'll keep trying though, no matter how idiot I must look to others in the room. And Lilith ,your last post, 3.40am, tired , much ? ;)
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