John and I took a quick trip into town over the weekend to pick up another stash of screws for the new shed project here at Struan Farm. Nephew Mike has been working away putting up the sideboards and then the batons between and was running low.
We also stopped at Smart Plants and picked up some corokia hedging for the Auckland flat, along with a reasonably sized native rewarewa tree that sat between us in the car on the journey home. Now that the wetter weather allows for more favorable planting conditions, we're starting to work on landscaping down the bowl below our house, where the macrocarpa trees were taken out this summer. The rewarewa is quite interesting--it's very straight and tall, has beautiful flowers that bees love too. At the moment we're considering a line or cluster of those with two other natives, essentially mirroring the line of Douglas Firs and the rimu and kahitakea on the opposite side (but with different types of trees).
We took the scenic route home, along Oparure Road and the Mairoa. It's an interesting limestone landscape!
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