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#KakaBeak

Just found this

"Kakabeak can be propagated from stem cuttings about finger length, or perhaps the easiest way is from seed. Soak the seeds overnight in warm water and sow the next day. They germinate really"

https://www.stuff.co.nz/taranaki-daily-news/lifestyle/gardening/9188719/A-red-hot-love-affaireasily

#NZ #KakaBeak #Ngutukākā #Gardening

Not being a gardener I am wondering what I should be doing with the pod things (like pea pods) that have replaced the flowers on my Kaka Beak/Ngutukākā .

Does anyone have a clue?

#NZ #KakaBeak #Ngutukākā #Gardening

Plants from our garden, dates I took pics.

Kakabeak, 02 October
New maple (recently planted), 16 November
Nigel's wildflower garden, 16 November @unearth

#NewZealand #WestOtago #garden #red #green #spring #plants #foliage #maple #clianthus #kakabeak #wildflowers #HomeGarden

Kakabeak, native to New Zealand. Showy red flowers that resemble the shape of native parrot beaks and hang in clusters from an overarching branch. Pea-green fresh foliage. Clianthus species.

Our new maple tree, recently purchased from the local plant nursery. Masses of many-pointed maple leaves that are lime green further in, graduating to yellow on the most outer leaves. The lovely spring colouring of the foliage was why we bought it (impulse buy).

Nigel's wildflower garden which he looks out onto from his office window. Phacelia, California poppies, a pink poppy, cornflowers and blue-and-white nemophila.. and others.

Native plants can be less showy than cultivated / imported types. But their subtlety has grown on me over the years.

Here are some NZ natives - 3 from our garden, 1 from nearby.

* Clianthus (aka Kaka Beak)
* Sophora (Kowhai)
* Hebe Diosmifolia
* Koru from a tree fern

#BloomScrolling #Koru #NativePlants #Aotearoa #Kowhai #Hebe #KakaBeak #Florespondence #Plants #Nature #NaturePhotography #Flowers #Ferns #NewZealand

The red flowers of a Kaka Beak, lit by afternoon sun. Their pointed, curving shape looks similar to the beak of a native parrot (the Kaka) - hence the name. The form hanging clusters which shift in the breeze.

Closeup of a hanging cluster of bright yellow pea-like flowers with little brown helmets. These are from a Kowhai tree (aka Sophora)

Closeup of a tight cluster of tiny white flowers lit by afternoon sun.

The classic tight spiral shape of the Koru, or fern frond, slowly straightening and preparing to open up the side spirals that hold the leaf structures

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