Protections

On the 2th of February we started removing protections and did some pruning. Here the list of it.

Aesculus glabra 1997 048 G6
Good looking tree, did some pruning around the stem of the tree.

Juglans regia 'Fallax'

Juglans regia 'Fallax' leaves

Malus (hybrid) 69102 (old label) G6
Was growing over the track, only pruned that

Aesculus californica 1980 005 G6
Good healthy looking tree, pruned around the stem

Juglans regia ‘Fallax’ 1996 021 G6
About 15 metres high
In the catalogus called the Juglans sigillata

Juglans regia ‘Fallax’ 1994 077 G6
About 15 metres high

Quercus rex

Quercus rex 1994 203 G5
Pruned around the stem.

Acer pseudosieboldianum var. ambigum
1991 284 G5
Small tree with solid stem, pruned around the stem

Quercus leucotrichophora 1998 043 G5
Solid tree, wide growing. About 5 metres high

Acer sinense var. undulatum 1993 221 G5
Cut down a shoot of Cudrania cuspidata that grew inside the protection, very close to the Acer
Here three photo’s of it.

Acer sinense var undulatum

Ailanthus vilmoriniana 1995 023 G5
Large tree, about 15 metres high, with awful lot of spines on all branches and still a few on the stem
(in wiki staat dat er alleen wat stekels aan jonge takken zit. Weet jij dat Karin?)

Ailanthus vilmoriniana

Ailanthus vilmoriniana

Ailanthus vilmoriniana

Ailanthus vilmoriniana

Betula grossa 1990 028 H5

Quercus oleoides 1990 177 H5
Dead by the puririmoth (R.Berry told us)
There was a small shoot and we saved that shoot by rearranging the protection

Quercus crassifolia 1987 093 G4
Big tree

Quercus crassifolia x ocoteifolia 2000 62 G4
Big tree

Quercus oxyodon 1999 010 H4
About 8 metres high, looking good

Castanopsis delavayi 1997 019 G4
Big tree, about 18 m

Carpinus laxiflora 1985 012 G4
Took protection off, did a lot of pruning and gave it a new solid protection

Quercus annulata 1993 233 G4
Solid tree, about 7 metres high
Old label says Q.cocciferoides

Alnus rhombifolia 1998 051 G4
Big solid tree about 12 m high

Betula mewedewii 1992 206 G4
A five stem tree. One stem grew through the protection, so I took it off

Athrotaxus cupressoides 2002 008 H8
Dead

Another tree gone down

Yesterday there was much wind. Apparently too much for one tree in the paddock between the Homestead and the house where Jacky and little John used to live.

It had no label. But it had beautiful flowers, and I could get a close look at them, now that the tree was laying on the ground.

So come to the rescue, tree fairies, and tell me what tree this is.
At first sight it looks a bit like a poplar. The leaves, and also the branches are quite soft.
But I never saw a poplar with these flowers.
Help!

Three trailer loads of branches

Today I collected dead branches, for a few hours. Mostly along the Ridge. I took them to the heaps that are ready for the chipper.

I didn’t do much else, because I was a bit sick today.

Another day of mowing

This morning I worked in two adjacent areas:

a. The triangle Isobel’s Pond – Homestead – (New) Dog Kennels
I did mowing here.
There is still a lot of work to be done here:
- collect dead branches
- pruning of different shrubs and trees
- check the protections
b. The corner of the Oak Paddock
Also been mowing.
Here also a lot of work:
- dead branches
- bamboo; what has to be done with that – discuss with Uncle Bob
(I cleared some around Acer pseudoplatanus ‘Brillantissimum’ 1986 002; should we cut this one back to one trunk?)
- protections with bamboo in it?
- quite a few no labels and old labels, e.g. Hovenia dulcis 1969 020 – the one in F7, I suppose?

In the afternoon I mowed for an hour or so along the Entrance Road.

Metrosideros

I made some pictures of 2 Metrosideros species, flowering on the Ridge.

First the Metrosideros parkinsonii (1986 022).
It is known in English as the Parkinson’s Rata.

Unfortunately the flowers where a bit too high to make close up pictures (we need a large ladder for that!). But this are the leaves:

Closely beside it grows a Pohutukawa Metrosideros excelsa (no label; I think it is 1979 028).
The New Zealand Christmas Tree!

Around the Liriodendron

At the end of the Ridge, beside the gate is a Liriodendron tulipifera (label says: L. tulipifera ‘Variegatum’ (1856 019); database has a Liriodendron tulipifera ‘Aureomarginatum’ in C6 only!).

It is flowering now.

Close to it is a Tilia mandshurica (1980 043). It is flowering now as well.

Another flowering shrub nearby is Cudrania cuspidata (1985 015).

Feijoa sellowiana

Special request from Karin: the Feijoa sellowiana.
There are quite a few feijoas in the arboretum. They are not registered in the database (until now). I have found four just east of the homestead garden, on both sides of the fence.
(the first two I mentioned on the “unlabeled page” of 2009-12-13).
The flowers are beautiful. I’ll ask Diane if they bear any fruit.

Wiki-en has an interesting article on it.

These pictures I made today of one of the trees next to the compost station.

Pages on missing labels

Look at the pages on missing labels:
2009-12-13 Along the lake
2009-12-13 East of the Homestead

First day at Hackfalls again

Along the northern side of Lake Kaikaore:
- Nyssa sylvatica 1956 021. We are in area D10.
There’s a strange stick beside it. Don’t know what it is. Rootsucker? protection for future new tree?

- Taxodium distichum 1968 086. The one in D11 or in C9? I’ll check it. The problem of different trees with the same number….
(now that I’m checking the database I see that there is another T. distichum in D6, from 1949. In the area west of the lake. Must look after that one!)
- Metasequoia glyptostroboides 1956 020. Must be the one in C9.
(The M. glypto below Isobel’s cottage dates back from 1953! That’s an oldie! Must be one of the earlier introductions to NZ)
- Laurus nobilis 1960 028 in C9
- Prunus lusitanica 1961 010. In C9 as well. We are apparently quite close to the corner of C9, C10, D9 and D10.

- Viburnum trilobum 1958 028 in C9 south-east.
A very strange thing. I think he has fallen down. Now he still lives on, and makes new shoots.I think it need a protection.

It is standing below a
- Gleditsia triacanthos 1959 009 in C9 that also needs maintenance! Broken branches.

There is some work to be done around there!

Some work at the entrance of the station

Yesterday John, Jacky and I brought a couple of trailerloads with chips to the small enclosure with rhododendrons and a few (big) trees (which?) at the side of the entrance to the station; and John and I finished the job today.
Wilma cleaned up that area a few months ago. And she watered the rhododendrons a couple of times.
Now we dumped a good load of chips, and we planted a Rhododendron ‘Crest’ (that has been in the homestead garden since 19…, and was taken out by Diane and Steven with the digger). We put it on the trailer and brought it down.

We dug a big hole and brought a trailer with soil to put it right in it’s place. Finally we dropped a last load of chips around it. Now we can only hope that it survives. The weather was quite good for this operation. Yesterday it rained a bit. It rained during the night, and Monday it rained a lot!
We planted a lot of Agapanthus cuttings in the area as well.

On the other side of the road we planted a Magnolia, and put a protection around it.

Remarks:
– One of the big trees is growing quite close to the power line.
– Anne Holden will put some additional nutrients around the rhodos.
– The trees need some pruning next year.