This week, some of New Zealand's unusual flora for your entertainment
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| Chatham Islands Lily |
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| Ti kouka - Cabbage Trees - (Cordyline australis) |
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| Ti kouka flowers have heady scent, sweet, rich, enticing and redolent of summer and warmth. |
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| Wharariki - Mountain Flax - (Phormium cookianum) |
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| Wharariki flowers |
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| Whatariki flowers close up. The honey bees love them |
Wharariki and it's relation harakeke are prized in Maori culture as a weaving plant. Their fibres are so linen-like that European settlers called the plant flax. It is in fact a lily.
We have Phormiums in our gardens. Their leathery leaves seem to like the seaside. Smashing photos. You live in a beautiful place.
ReplyDeleteThe cabbage trees are gorgeous and the Chatham Island Lilies are such a pretty blue.
ReplyDeleteHari OM
ReplyDeleteOh I do love those antipodean flora! The Chatham Island plant looks less like a lily than, perhaps, a forget-me-not... or for some reason, puts me in mind of hydrangea... Hooroo frae the Bonny Land basking under an incredible full moon! YAM xx
Also known as Chatham Islands Forget-me-not.
DeleteWOW! gorgeous. looks a lot like Florida.
ReplyDeleteyikes, just checked your time and you are 18 hours ahead of us. I noticed it said Friday am. wow! on the other side of the planet. not just across the pond
ReplyDeleteSame side of the planet as you now, but the other side of the international date line.😎
DeleteThey are lovely. We have the cordyline and the phormium growing here too. Very exotic for our climare.
ReplyDeleteYour climate and ours are very similar and you are about 10 degrees further from the equator.
DeleteI love seeing the different pants in different countries. Usually that’s the first thing you really see traveling from the airport to where you will be staying. You really know you have traveled to another country
ReplyDeleteLove the scent of cabbage tree flowers, and love watching tui feasting on the flax nectar. New Zealand has some beautiful native plants :)
ReplyDeleteWe would kill for bellbirds and tuis here but there are no bush corridors down from the foothills.
DeleteWonderfully unfamiliar (to those of us in Northern parts) Nature Friday plant life today. Love the 'cabbage trees'!
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