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Well I kinda do stuff like that except I'm not really making that much money!.
It's over rated though, that money stuff.
Today I "snuck in" 65 eco sourced Kowhai to a revege job, heh heh ;) , it's going to be glorious in a few years time.
That's what I like to hear! It's surprising what can be achieved when you are wearing a wicked grin. This afternoon I pruned a bank of hebe and coprosma that I planted wickedly, 12 years ago. It's now so full, it threatens Highway 99.
Regarding the Kowhai, in my unofficial "studies" I have discovered that it has become locally extinct from large tracts of land/river bank where it once flourished.
Usually I can find a few scattered, very old rotting remnants where I "suspect" they once grew on mass.
These are the ones I am propagating from.
The problem with them is that their seeds are not bird dispersed, so once they are removed from an area they struggle to return. Initial land clearance heavily reduced numbers and then natural river erosion can wipe out the few remaining on river banks (unless the river system is completely stable).
With farm land now often right down to the river edge, there is almost no way they can naturally return.
Until along comes Johnny Kowhai seed.........
Mwah ha ha haaaaa!!
Dear Johny Kowhai (Hone Kowhai?)
I admire the work you are doing very much. All power to your arm.
TYell me, are you propagating from seed or cutting?
Not 'TYell', just, tell.
far more polite.
My father tried to raise Kowhai on the coast for years and never had any luck. He finally cracked it by collecting fresh seed and propagating it straight away.
He planted about 70 on his property in Marsden.
I nicked a few and tried them in Riverton but the South Coast was not to their liking.
Towack's right - fresh, fresh seed is best. Kowhai do grow well on the South Coast though - I've got a dozen of them at home and there are quite a few about the town, including some ancient ones on the other side of the estuary. When you live on the beach, Towack, you have to expect some things to struggle :-)
yeah, I think it was the Kowhai I used favoured the sub tropical West Coast weather, as wonderful as it is. I now have a few I acquired and they are doing well....
I propagate them from seed Robert, and use the method Towack has described, usually in January.
The trees I am getting most of my seed from are very old, probably as old as a Kowhai can get. most of them are not very large as their glory days are well past, but they were probably big trees in their day, but all that remains are a few upright branches from very large semi rotten stumps.
The young trees look very handsome with a semi weeping habit.
Towack may be right about West Coast Kowhai not doing so well down south, form my observations they are an extremely variable species in both form and tolerance to wind and salt, I actually propagate from different populations depending on where they are to be planted.
I would love to show you some of my work one day.
The trick is to pour boiling water over the seeds and then allow to cool just before sowing - tho' don't boil the seeds!
Most woody legumes require some form of scarification- either acid soak, abrasion or hot water treatment to soften the outer seed cover - then they sprout in great abundance
I will come and see your work, Shunda.
Darkhorse is right too, about beating up the seeds. A lawnmower run beneath a mature, seeding kowhai does the trick fastest :-)
I didn't know you owned a mower RG
Past tense, darkhorse. I saw the light. The resounding silence is golden. At first, the lawn rose like a wave threatening to pound the house as the ocean smashes a sand castle on the beach, but I struck first, turning lawn into garden. We have our ways, we Luddites!
Speaking of roses, I see David's pulled the pin. The Federation has lost a great spokesperson (could mean cyclist, eh - spokesperson. Imagine being spokesperson for the Southland cycling club. Even better - David Rose, spokesperson for the Federated Farmers' branch of the Southland Cycle Club).
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