Thursday 24 and Friday 25 I worked in Eastwoodhill (cleaning parts of Cedar garden again).
Saturday 26 I was in town (Gisborne). And I visited Bob and Ann in Orange Grove, along … Road.
Bob presented me a new printed version of the catalogue. More condensed. Specially designed to help me find trees in the field.
Weekly Report:
Monday 2007-12-03 to Sunday 2007-12-09 (incl.)
(crossed order)
2007-12-09 Sunday: Gisborne -> Morere Springs -> Tutira -> Napier
Rainy / foggy.
Visit Morere Springs Hot Pools
Short walk through Morere Springs Reserve – wonderful nikau palms. Photo’s wv.
Visit H. G.-S. Arboretum, Tutira; we met the curator Chris Ryan (?). He invited us to have a look around. For instance in the nursery. Big planting! Geographical organized. Trees of the same species planted in blocks. Photo’s wv.
Stay overnight at Albatross Motel on Westshore, overlooking estuary
2007-12-08 Saturday: Gisborne: Farmers Market, Shopping, Ballet, Dinner with Margriet
stay overnight at the Showgrounds
2007-12-07 Friday: EWH (worked only 1 hr) -> Gisborne: Shopping (Op-shop), Dinner at USSCO with EWH-staff
stay overnight at the Showgrounds; heavy rain at night
2007-12-06 Thursday: Hackfalls -> EWH: microscope work on Pinus devoniana, Pinus
heavy rain at night
see: Wikipedia entry on Pinus devoniana I recently made (with pictures from Hackfalls!)
2007-12-05 Wednesday: Hackfalls
db is still ill
morning: cutting Alnus etc. other side of the lake
afternoon: cleaning Aunt Isobel’s garden
2007-12-04 Tuesday: Hackfalls
db is ill
morning: Ridge halfway (on the boundary of G7 and G6):
Sorbus alnifolia 1983 020 # 3604 in very bad condition. Catalogue says 9m! Put in new protection. (= G7)
Just beside it a beautiful large specimen of S. alnifolia: 1985 095 #3603. Catalogue has questionmark: may be S. japonica! catalogue says height 3m.(=G6)
Catalogue says there is a third specimen of S. alnifolia
Sorbus meliosmifolia 1977 031 # 3649 – removed metal posts.
Carpinus turczaninowii 1994 228 # 631 – removed protection and metal posts.
Lithocarpus corneus (?) 1992 230 #1546
removed chaotic protection
protected again with metal post. height about 1.40 m.
(old?) label says 1993 230
Embrothium coccineum 1999 066 #1004
removed protection and metal posts.
Pinus rzedowskii 1991 014 #1997
There is a lot of work to be done here!
afternoon: cleaning thistles and rushes along the entrance road
2007-12-03 Monday: Hackfalls
Wilma is ill.
morning: mowing at the other side of the lake, Wilma clears Acer.
Monday Nov. 26 to Sunday Dec. 2 (incl.)
(order crossed)
2007-12-02 Hackfalls
In the morning we did a little tour through the arboretum and made some photo’s of a Mexican oak: 
Quercus rugosa
Bark, male flowers, small new acorns, young leaves
On our way back home we saw a beautifull flowering Aesculus californica at the backside of the cattleyard.
afternoon: view of the arboretum from the airstrip
fish and chips from Tiniroto tavern
2007-12-01 Saturday: Hackfalls
2007-11-30 Friday
2007-11-29 Thursday
2007-11-28 Wednesday
2007-11-27 Tuesday
Monday Nov. 26: Wilma arrives at Gisborne Airport at 11:55 am
(see photo’s)
We drive straight to Tiniroto via Waerenga-o-kuri
This was the first period db was working at Hackfalls this season.
db arrived at Gisborne:
db arrived at Tiniroto:
Until: Monday Nov. 26: Wilma arrives at Gisborne Airport at 11:55am
This is the new weblog of (our activities) in Hackfalls Arboretum, Tiniroto, Gisborne, New Zealand.
We will describe which work we’re doing, and observations we make.
For general information on Hackfalls Arboretum, see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hackfalls_Arboretum
Hackfalls Arboretum is situated in Tiniroto.
For general information on Tiniroto, see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiniroto
This weblog is started by Wilma Verburg and Dick Bos. We come from the Netherlands. We have visited New Zealand a couple of times. The last time was February to April this year.
Dick Bos is working now in Hackfalls Arboretum from September 2007 until March 2008. Wilma Verburg arrived last week (end of November), and she will leave again in the beginning of January 2008.
They have a weblog in Dutch at WordPress: http://wvendb.wordpress.com
Hackfalls Arboretum - Tiniroto, Gisborne NZ 
