Marcia’s Tree of the Month: PRUNUS Kanzan – Pink Flowering Cherry
This month’s staff selection is by Marcia, our Marketing expert from the music filled streets of Rio De Janeiro, who has happily sambad her way over to Southland, where she…
This month’s staff selection is by Marcia, our Marketing expert from the music filled streets of Rio De Janeiro, who has happily sambad her way over to Southland, where she…
Choosing a favourite season is an almost impossible task. How does one choose between the romance of Autumn and the nostalgia of Winter days spent hugging a mug of steaming…
Johannes Hofer, a Swiss Physician, coined the term nostalgia in 1688. Taken from the Greek nostos (homecoming) and algos (pain), it was used to describe a pathological homesickness. Yet nostalgia…
This week's tree is a true show-stealer. To illustrate this point, we should cast our minds back to 1912. Not that we can remember 1912 of course, but let us…
The reasons for liking Spring are many and varied. Daylight hours slowly grow in a kind of post-hibernation stretch, a gentle waking of the senses as the birdsong arrives, a…
“Pyrus calleryana is simply a marvel. One finds it growing under all sorts of conditions; one time on dry, sterile mountain slopes; then again with its roots in standing water…
This week, we bring you another of the Top 10 Spring Blossom Trees (you can download the poster here). Many will know the Amelanchier canadensis as either NZ Whitebait or…
Ryland has selected the Tree of the Month for September and this is certainly one of those trees that demands a moment of appreciation. And possibly the words ‘wow -…
There’s something about Spring and the renewed sense of optimism it brings. As the days grow longer and warmer, they’re accompanied by a refreshed sense of self and a new…
This week's email comes to you with a taste of Italy, alongside a tree that’s perfectly twinned with small cups of espresso outside on a Spring morning. Or a lazy…
For those of you who have been glued to the screens over the last few weeks, the good news is the action continues when the Paralympics opens on Thursday 29th…
If you’ve not been to Invercargill for a while then you might notice the city centre has changed a bit. The new shopping mall and upgrades to Don and Esk…