Garden – MAHI A MARA

Movement…

The flutter of a butterfly wing, jumping of a wren, darting of a skink or the rustle of leaves in the wind all produce secondary and tertiary movement so important to life. Just like a food web, these tiny to enormous movements provide various types of trophic levels of vibration, disruption and change; compare theContinue reading “Movement…”

Kiaora, nice to finally meet you!!

After a lot of mucking about there is finally some solid growth and an exiting of the germination stage of this online slice of garden…Solid growth, a wonderful phrase. Nature creates solid growth to form resilience. Recent events have brought to the fore many reasons why we should learn to observe nature more, and takeContinue reading “Kiaora, nice to finally meet you!!”

Gardens are never done…

NZ native Turkey Tail fungus in a working system where the fungi collects and directs water with its 'tails' assisting to degrade woody materials on the forest floor.This in turn provides food,moisture and ambient tempreture for tree roots, which provide more food for the fungi. If the fungi becomes too optimistic and takes over the tree too quickly, the light and heat will kill off the tails until such a time equilibrium is again reached, and the trees and fungi are again in balance...

Effects of a garden are huge and wide ranging. Gardens are providers, teachers, sustainers, nurturers who work with and on behalf of our earth-mother and sky-father – Rangi’ and Papa’ (and of course their children as off-shoots of their own love), the lord- God, and most poignant of all, our Earth, and it’s wider placementContinue reading “Gardens are never done…”