The Garden
One of our goals is to be as self-sufficient as we can given our property and work schedule and to develop a medieval vegetable and herb garden which will include a variety of medicinal herbs and dye plants.
There's not much here yet apart from notes from an early experiment with growing and processing linen flax for spinning.
Natives for our boundaries
One of the guys at my work knows a guy who's very knowledgeable about native plants in Canterbury and he's kindly made me a list of appropriate plants for re-treeing our place in West Melton.
- Olearia odorata
- Olearia paniculata
- Olearia odenacarpa
- Olearia bullata
- Kowhai - sophora microphylla
- Kowhai - sophora prostrata
- Toetoe cortaderna richardii - not in a dry place
- Matagouri - discaria toumatou
- Hebe salicifolia - likes it a bit damp
- Native broom - carmichaelia australis
- Harakeke (NZ flax) - phormium tenax
- Spaniards - Aciphylla subfabellata
- Kanuka - Kunzea ericoides
- Manuka - Leptopermum scoparium
- Totara - lowland totara
- Coprosma - propinqua
- Coprosma - rubra (not too dry)
- Coprosma - crassifolia
- Corokia cotoneaster
- Helichrysum - lancolatum
- Cabbage tree - coryline australis (sorry but I hate cabbage trees - ok so maybe so long as I don't have to mow around it)
- Raoulia australis
- Raoulia subserica
- Festuca novae-zealandie (hard tussock) - for dry places
- Poa laevis (silver tussock)