TRIP REPORT : Workbee at Tapu Te Ranga Marae

 Sunday 10 October 2004 :   Workbee at Tapu Te Ranga Marae

Melicytus aff. obovatus :   Photo: Jeremy Rolfe.

Conditions were perfect for planting, as a very small BotSoc turnout worked alongside members of Manawa Karioi Society.   We planted six northern rata generously donated by Lower Hutt Branch of Forest and Bird, potted up seedlings and weeded the Surville Cliffs section, then the threatened Wellington coastal plants section, where Muehlenbeckia astonii, Coprosma acerosa, Melicytus aff. obovatus and M. crassifolius are looking very much at home among coastal flax and large boulders.

Participants:   Stan Butcher, Bryan Halliday, Chris Horne (co-leader), Ann and Barbara Mitcalfe (co-leader / scribe).