Maggie and Stephen have been back in Southland for a few weeks. They did not see it as a rest but were busy most of the time - a good deal of it helping out with the nursery building! Stephen helped Ray with the plywood inside the building while Maggie got stuck into the staining of the window frames.
Mid May James Hargest students came to visit and helped out with seed collecting,
Obviously missing teaching (not) Maggie helped out Chris and Ray with a visit from Lees Street Kindy. The new building got a work out with potting up and sheltering the children from the hail, and the bus park catered for maggie and Stephens bus plus the school bus with ease.
Posted: 30 May 2013
Friday Mornings on 14 and 28 June 2013 will be devoted to Cuttings workshops. If you want to learn how to propagate plants from cuttings come along from 9.30am-noon.
Bring something yummy for morning tea and bring along some freshly collected cutting material. We will also go out into the garden and property and collect cuttings which will form the nursery stock for next season.
Posted: 30 May 2013
April’s a Busy Month!
School visits, education centre building, apple pressing and the usual Friday morning volunteer days were all busy events at the community Nursery.
Limehills School spent a day at the nursery - collecting seed, potting up kowhai plants for their project at Kowhai Reach, near Centre Bush and planting in Rances Bush.
Earlier in the month St Johns penguins came and did some seed collecting.
Posted: 30 April 2013
This years Apple Pressing on the afternoon of 19 April was another successful nursery event. Despite the aweful weather and a poor apple season, participants brought scrumped apples and made good use of Malcolm McKenzies apple press and the new education centre - with roof but no windows or doors!
Having frozen the apples made for very clear juice and lots more of it (over 30% more juice apparently).
Posted: 30 April 2013
Every Friday morning we will be in the Nursery with other volunteers. Come along and join our friendly group, bring along some morning tea to share, do some work and take away some plants for free.
We will also be collecting the last few seeds for the season - Cabbage tree, broadleaf, Hebe, lemonwood and others. Or come and purchase some plants ready to plant and contribute to the Education Centre building.
In June we will be having “Cuttings Workshops” 14 and 28 June - teaching people how to propagate new plants fromn cuttings. You can bring along cuttings that you wish to grow or learn the techniques and go home and try them out. The cuttings will make roots over winter and be ready to pot on in spring.
Posted: 30 April 2013
