We were very lucky with the weather when the rural women’s group visited our Riverton garden to learn about orcharding organically and the mysterious details of grafting and pruning. The warmth brought out all of the tiny hoverflies, highlighting nicely the point that plants growing amongst the apple trees are important for successful pollination and the fruit-set on the trees proves the effectiveness of the cow parsley, fennel, lovage and so on that are growing there. The next day, a photographer for NZ Gardener spent a couple of hours ‘firing off shots’ around the garden for an up-coming article and was greeted by the same phenomenon of busy pollinators en mass. They’re difficult to photograph, but impossible to miss on-site. If you are interested to see these little workers up-close, try this site or plant some wild carrot or cow parsley and attract your own!
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