Spring weather down here in New Zealand is often fickle and changeable. It’s a beautiful calm Spring day today, but yesterday it poured with rain for hours. Frosts some days, wind on others, we just don’t know what the weather gods will be throwing at us. But what we do know is that the days are slowly getting longer, so “Roll on Summer”. All this rain and alternate sunshine is good for the local market gardens. We went to our favourite one yesterday, before the rain started, to see lots of new crops in the ground.
Spring sowing
Our kowhai tree is in full bloom, and such a pretty sight – kowhais would have to be our favourite native tree. This one was transported as a baby from our previous home in Upper Hutt. It was self sown under the parent tree so we potted it up and brought it with us when we moved to our new home. Five years or so on, it is doing marvelously. Tuis come visiting to sip the nectar, and keep us entertained with their melodic song.
Our beautiful kowhai tree
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We’re having very variable weather here too, but as you say, it is spring. I love your tree. Beautiful flowers.
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