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One of the awkward things of trying to show everything that comes into the garden is the plants like this one. I bought it
from a "bargain bin" at the end of the season and had nowhere immediately in mind for it in the garden. So I put it
down on a bed where it would get watered and kept myself busy thinking about other things until it died a couple of years later.
This was the best it ever looked and the only photo that I took. Not my finest moment. Trees and Shrubs online says: "Native of South Island, New Zealand, in grassland and open rocky places, east of the Divide. S. microphylla sometimes bears flowers even in the juvenile state, and this species seems to be a modification that is fertile and permanently juvenile in habit." The New Zealand Plant Conservation Network says: "A small dense kowhai tree to 2m tall with zig-zagging branches bearing leaves to 25mm long that have leaflets 4mm long and with drooping orange-yellow flowers and dry ridged and knobbly pointed seed pods to 5cm long containing hard brown seeds. Juveniles and adults similar. Inhabiting the eastern South Island." |
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| 5th July 2014 | ||