I love the fact there's so much native forest replanting going on around Aotearoa. I get that you're never going to get 100% survival rates when planting Zone 5 (in permaculture jargon, mostly unmanaged reserve area). But...

... I do wonder how much local ecological knowledge is being applied to decisions about what gets planted where, and when.

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#Aotearoa #EcosystemRegeneration #Reforestation #NativePlanting

These grow along the dunes. Good ground cover for our garden. The pink is very cheery! Delightful name, Pigface. Bushtucker - maybe dune tucker - if you like the salty flavour. #NativePlanting #WildlifeGardening #Natives

More local native plants going in the garden. Hibbertia vestita / hairy guinea flower. #NativePlanting #WildlifeGardening #Rewilding

Midyim berries from my garden. Local wild plant and bush tucker. They tase a little bit perfumy to me, a bit like parma violet. #homegrown #food #NativePlanting #bushtucker

I'm looking forward to eating these berries. I'm growing a local native plant called Midyim, Austromyrtus dulcis. Beautiful. Raw, they taste a bit of parma violet! I bet there are some good antioxidants in here! #NativePlanting #Bushtucker #WildFood #Biodiversity #HomeGrown

Meet one of my local natives. I'm growing it. This is Cymbopogon refractus, a QLD lemongrass from that genus. Yet to taste it! Will report back! Also called barbed wire grass. I'll show the flower shape soon. #nativePlanting #WildlifeGardening #Plants #Herbs

I'm growing Xerochrysum bracteatum, a local #wildflower. Also known as everlasting due to its ability to be dried for floristry, or paper daisy, after the crispy, papery feel of the petals.

#biodiversity #nativeplanting

I'm growing Xerochrysum bracteatum, a local #wildflower. Also known as everlasting due to its ability to be dried for floristry, or paper daisy, after the crispy, papery feel of the petals.

#biodiversity #nativeplanting

This.
Also, *hyperlocal* natives. Here in Australia, garden centres sell 'native' plants that don't grow for thousands of kilometres around! This is no use to the gene pool (in fact damaging when they hybridise with close relatives) and no use for closely associated and highly selective animal species. My 700+ garden plants grow around here.

#biodiversity #NativePlanting #natives #WildlifeGardening #exticintion #ecology #UrbanGardens #WildPlants #BiodiversityCrisis

Clearwing Sphinx Moth feeding at allium in my pigmum’s #pollinator garden this summer. #nativeplanting #plantnative

Caterpillars have shredded my native Hovea acuifolia! It's doing its job but I admit to finding it awkward to look at! One problem with a native plant garden, especially when ajoining lots are lawns and cultivars, is the unbalanced ecosystem. #nativeplanting #wildlifegardening

Caterpillars have shredded my native Hovea acuifolia! It's doing its job but I admit to finding it awkward to look at! One problem with a native plant garden, especially when ajoining lots are lawns and cultivars, is the unbalanced ecosystem. #nativeplanting #wildlifegardening

Masses of butterflies in my native plant wildlife garden! All plants grow wild around here.
#WildlifeGardening #NativePlanting #butterflies #GardenDesign

Just taken delivery of a walnut, Myrick, a black mulberry, another olive, Frantoio, a pepino and a cape gooseberry. Now I have to decide on the natives council is insisting we plant on our boundaries. The demands are endless. 🙄
#FoodForest
#NativePlanting

Yellow-tailed black cockatoos. They're back for another nibble! Planting for wildlife, air quality, and climate. Here, coast banksia, Banksia integrifolia #nativeplanting #wildlifegardening