Posts by Venetia King
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Capture: Spring is Like a Perhaps Hand, in reply to Geoff Lealand,
Somebody has redistributed the blossom from this one rather creatively…
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Capture: Spring is Like a Perhaps Hand, in reply to Geoff Lealand,
Yum! That's really what spring is all about :)
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Here are some more of the manuka(?) flowers…
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We ought to have a hebe, they're some of the loveliest colours at the moment.
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This tui was gorging on the neighbour’s kowhai. Too quick to get a very clear shot!
Think I better stop there and let someone else have a go :)
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Frank Kitts Park at the waterfront has a few varieties of manuka (or similar? - not sure of species) that are all flowering just now, I'd never noticed them before but they're rather gorgeous.
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And the bulbs are starting to show in Parliament grounds.
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I was inspired by this to take my camera out with me yesterday and pay attention to springiness… some of the neighbourhood trees are blossoming gorgeously (long may the calm weather last).
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So many lovely, lovely things! Thank you everyone. I’m not very good with poetry – didn’t recognise the reference in the title of the post and had to google it.
A couple of comments triggered by earlier posts…
I love the flowers on japonica. Joe Wylie mentioned his "mum’s generation used the “apples” from the bushes as a source of pectin" – there are still a few people around who make japonica jelly, one of my favourite things for toast. It’s similar to quince or crabapple jelly but has a unique tang. I get mine from Michael’s Kitchen at the Hill Street Farmers’ Market (Wellington).
Looking at the foliage on Jackie’s mystery pohutukawa-like flower from the zoo, I wondered if it might be a relative of the albizia that Sofie posted on page 3?
Lilith & Nora – I’ve been admiring oxalis flowers since I was small, I used to pick them out of lawns when out walking. It’s a weed, so I was allowed! Here’s some that were on display at Wellington’s Botanic Gardens at the end of summer last year. Not spring I know, but they were growing in the rockeries that are used for lots of colourful spring flowers :)
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Hard News: Free the Street, in reply to Russell Brown,
Re "Lionel" (John Leigh)...
And spurned, he had to go and be in a movie with Vin Diesel.
Actually, it was "Leonard" (Marton Csokas) who was in xXx.
(I used to watch Shortland St back in the day, haven't done for years.)
