Planting on the dunes

 We are having dry weather at the moment, which is nice. It may not last though. There was a very pink sunrise yesterday morning.

On Saturday we went and helped with planting plants on the back dunes at the beach. There is a council run organization called Coastal Care and they do a lot of replanting around the coast line of the Bay of Plenty. They use a lot of volunteers otherwise I don’t suppose it would happen. A lot of schools do it. Thornton school has been doing it for 30 years and the organization has been going for 35. 

Last month they sprayed all the weeds and then came back and did some spot spraying which is where we planted the plants. We did 170 plants all together. There was us, Louise, another lady from the camp and the lady from coastal care with her daughter. None of the permanent residents came which we all thought was a bit rude. It is their beach after all. We had chocolate biscuits and hot drinks when we were done. The roots of the grass were pretty hard to dig through.  Eddie and I were tired when we got home, so we both had a nap after lunch.

We planted Taupata, Karo, Ngaio, Ti Kouka (Cabbage tree), Harakeke (Flax), Coastal Mahoe and a threatened species called Euphorbia Glauca. Its Maori name is Waiu-Atua or Waiu-o-Kauhukura. The first name is the more common.

Taupata

Karo

Euphorbia Glauca

Ngaio

Coastal Mahoe