Thanks for your interest. It's going to take a few years to get the Kauri forest established, but starting the planting in the spring of 2023 is going to be an important milestone.
Having just discovered that Kauri 2000 Coromandel has reached its planting quota for 2024 and may take even longer than that to catch up, I wonder if you too are going to be issuing certificates each time someone sponsors a tree on behalf of a loved one? As I used to live in Milton, it's close to home, so if we can "buy" a kauri (or 3 in my case) to be planted on your land, that would be marvellous.
It's a great idea to "adopt a Kauri tree". When each Kauri is planted, it will be identified using both its GPS location and a unique RFID serial number. The RFID number will be used to collect individual tree growth data for scientific analysis. On our website www.kauritrees.nz you can donate to this project. If you nominate that your donation is to adopt a Kauri, then your name/s will be recorded with a unique tree/s. Thanks for your message and interest in this project.
I saw his channel. We're some years behind him, but the more land owners who plant indigenous flora, the better for the fauna and the overall ecosystem.
So, you intend to use Australian Fire Weed as a kauri nursery? The gorse you propose to eradicate might serve you better than the native pyrophyte. So thought (and proved) Leonard Cockayne when re-establishing native forest at Otari-Wilton Bush. Also Dr Hugh Wilson in his ongoing efforts at Hinewai. Nativists do not want to hear this, which is why it needs to be constantly restated. . Good luck in any case.
@billhenderson8639 Thanks for taking the time to comment on my project. I have no intention of using Australian Fire Weed as a nurse tree. The first plantings were undertaken in August 2023, exclusively using NZ indigenous trees. 21 different varieties were planted in Area 1 during August 2023, consistent with what is growing in the existing forest. I'll be uploading some videos about it shortly. Here is a list of the varieties and quantities that were planted: Aristotelia serrata Wineberry / Makomako 620 Austroderia richardii Toetoe 100 Carex secta Purei 79 Cordyline australis Cabbage Tree 96 Griselinia littoralis Broadleaf 205 Hebe salicifolia Koromiko 190 Hoheria angustifolia Lacebark / Houhere 541 Kunzea ericoides Kanuka 1,242 Lophomyrtus obcordata Rohutu 480 Myoporum laetum Ngaio 360 Olearia lineata 98 Ozothamnus fulvida Tauhinu 108 Phormium tenax Lowland flax / Harakeke 100 Pittosporum colensoi Black Matipo / Kohuhu 440 Pittosporum eugenioides Lemonwood / Tarata 680 Pittosporum tenuifolium Black Matipo / Kohuhu 760 Plagianthus regius Ribbonwood / Manatu 202 Podocarpus totara Mahogany Pine / Totara 172 Pseudopanax colensoi 3 Finger 450 Pseudopanax crassifolium Lancewood / Horoeka 300 Sophora microphylla Kowhai 100 Since making this first video, I've had an on-site visit from a Scion scientist and received further technical advice, including the use of gorse as a nurse tree. The gorse at the interface between the pasture and the forest is quite dense and up to 10 m in depth in some areas. I will thin it to make it more useable.
Thank you for taking the trouble to reply. To clarify, 'Australian Fire Weed' is a descriptive name for Kanuka and Manuka. I was not trying to catch you out. You will find no 'Dihydrogen Oxides' here. But these are species that - like many (most?) of our natives - came from Australia to replenish the flora and fauna after Zealandia arose from (total?) submersion. Obviously Kanuka and Manuka got here long before us, but arrive from Australia they did. I guess this is why the beekeepers were unable to keep the name 'manuka honey' away from the Aussies. My caution is that conservations who use Manuka and Kanuka as a nursery for native trees, presumably for ideological reasons, run the risk of the regenerating forest being destroyed every time some thing or body sets fire to the Manuka and Kanuka. Maybe not a concern in wet Otago, but better to be safe than sorry, especially if the East Coast becomes more drought prone as predicted. According to my guru on all matters ecological, prior to human habitation, the flora of Australia was similar to what we think of as New Zealand Native Bush. If you know where to look you can, apparently, find remnants of it. It has largely disappeared on account of the Aboriginal People, who found it useless and so replaced it with species more amenable to themselves. Now for some personal ruminations. Assuming that the first people in Australia were like the first people in New Zealand - or the first people anywhere - their first act was to retire the local megafauna. When the consequent loss of browse allowed the understory to get away, they found themselves unable to travel, so had to set fire to the place in order to get around. In the case of Australia, over a period of 70,000 years this evolved into the 'fire-stick' land management system the Aboriginal People are much admired for. With only 600 years to come to terms with the changes to the ecosystem resulting from the loss of Moa browse, when Captain Cook arrived, the Maoris were still getting the hang of it. Like the Aboriginals, their main instrument was fire. In Brisbane, Australia, I once lodged with a conservation activist who had established an artificial rain forest on his standard size suburban backyard. He achieved this by installing sprinklers and drenchers in the tree canopy. It was one of the most enchanting places I have experienced. It was constantly moist, which made it occur to me that his system would make for an excellent green fire-break, besides getting stuff to grow fast. I assume that your consultants will have informed you that Kauri Die-back is carried by vehicles, human and animal foot traffic plus water run-off? I hope you succeed and will follow your project with interest.
@@billhenderson8639 Thanks again for your comments. They are consistent with my understanding of the historical link between NZ and Australia. I have implemented preliminary bio-security measures to prevent kauri die-back (Phytophthora agathidicida) from infecting the property. These will be enhanced prior to the kauri going into the ground from May 2025. The nursery also has measures in place. As I mentioned in my earlier comment, the first two of six videos covering the August 2023 planting have been uploaded to TH-cam. I hope you enjoy them.
Kia ora love your mahi and your future plans
Thanks for your supportive comment @timwaaka4923.
Waw! Enjoy watching this.
Thank you from Australia
Everyone can make small steps. Together, there will be giant strides.
Really interesting, a must to follow.
Thanks for your interest. It's going to take a few years to get the Kauri forest established, but starting the planting in the spring of 2023 is going to be an important milestone.
Having just discovered that Kauri 2000 Coromandel has reached its planting quota for 2024 and may take even longer than that to catch up, I wonder if you too are going to be issuing certificates each time someone sponsors a tree on behalf of a loved one? As I used to live in Milton, it's close to home, so if we can "buy" a kauri (or 3 in my case) to be planted on your land, that would be marvellous.
It's a great idea to "adopt a Kauri tree". When each Kauri is planted, it will be identified using both its GPS location and a unique RFID serial number. The RFID number will be used to collect individual tree growth data for scientific analysis.
On our website www.kauritrees.nz you can donate to this project. If you nominate that your donation is to adopt a Kauri, then your name/s will be recorded with a unique tree/s.
Thanks for your message and interest in this project.
I met Joe Fleet in Rotorua. The New Forest. Interesting stuff you guys are doing. He is also on TH-cam.
I saw his channel. We're some years behind him, but the more land owners who plant indigenous flora, the better for the fauna and the overall ecosystem.
So, you intend to use Australian Fire Weed as a kauri nursery? The gorse you propose to eradicate might serve you better than the native pyrophyte. So thought (and proved) Leonard Cockayne when re-establishing native forest at Otari-Wilton Bush. Also Dr Hugh Wilson in his ongoing efforts at Hinewai. Nativists do not want to hear this, which is why it needs to be constantly restated. . Good luck in any case.
@billhenderson8639 Thanks for taking the time to comment on my project. I have no intention of using Australian Fire Weed as a nurse tree. The first plantings were undertaken in August 2023, exclusively using NZ indigenous trees. 21 different varieties were planted in Area 1 during August 2023, consistent with what is growing in the existing forest. I'll be uploading some videos about it shortly.
Here is a list of the varieties and quantities that were planted:
Aristotelia serrata Wineberry / Makomako 620
Austroderia richardii Toetoe 100
Carex secta Purei 79
Cordyline australis Cabbage Tree 96
Griselinia littoralis Broadleaf 205
Hebe salicifolia Koromiko 190
Hoheria angustifolia Lacebark / Houhere 541
Kunzea ericoides Kanuka 1,242
Lophomyrtus obcordata Rohutu 480
Myoporum laetum Ngaio 360
Olearia lineata 98
Ozothamnus fulvida Tauhinu 108
Phormium tenax Lowland flax / Harakeke 100
Pittosporum colensoi Black Matipo / Kohuhu 440
Pittosporum eugenioides Lemonwood / Tarata 680
Pittosporum tenuifolium Black Matipo / Kohuhu 760
Plagianthus regius Ribbonwood / Manatu 202
Podocarpus totara Mahogany Pine / Totara 172
Pseudopanax colensoi 3 Finger 450
Pseudopanax crassifolium Lancewood / Horoeka 300
Sophora microphylla Kowhai 100
Since making this first video, I've had an on-site visit from a Scion scientist and received further technical advice, including the use of gorse as a nurse tree. The gorse at the interface between the pasture and the forest is quite dense and up to 10 m in depth in some areas. I will thin it to make it more useable.
Thank you for taking the trouble to reply. To clarify, 'Australian Fire Weed' is a descriptive name for Kanuka and Manuka. I was not trying to catch you out. You will find no 'Dihydrogen Oxides' here. But these are species that - like many (most?) of our natives - came from Australia to replenish the flora and fauna after Zealandia arose from (total?) submersion. Obviously Kanuka and Manuka got here long before us, but arrive from Australia they did. I guess this is why the beekeepers were unable to keep the name 'manuka honey' away from the Aussies.
My caution is that conservations who use Manuka and Kanuka as a nursery for native trees, presumably for ideological reasons, run the risk of the regenerating forest being destroyed every time some thing or body sets fire to the Manuka and Kanuka. Maybe not a concern in wet Otago, but better to be safe than sorry, especially if the East Coast becomes more drought prone as predicted.
According to my guru on all matters ecological, prior to human habitation, the flora of Australia was similar to what we think of as New Zealand Native Bush. If you know where to look you can, apparently, find remnants of it. It has largely disappeared on account of the Aboriginal People, who found it useless and so replaced it with species more amenable to themselves.
Now for some personal ruminations. Assuming that the first people in Australia were like the first people in New Zealand - or the first people anywhere - their first act was to retire the local megafauna. When the consequent loss of browse allowed the understory to get away, they found themselves unable to travel, so had to set fire to the place in order to get around. In the case of Australia, over a period of 70,000 years this evolved into the 'fire-stick' land management system the Aboriginal People are much admired for. With only 600 years to come to terms with the changes to the ecosystem resulting from the loss of Moa browse, when Captain Cook arrived, the Maoris were still getting the hang of it. Like the Aboriginals, their main instrument was fire.
In Brisbane, Australia, I once lodged with a conservation activist who had established an artificial rain forest on his standard size suburban backyard. He achieved this by installing sprinklers and drenchers in the tree canopy. It was one of the most enchanting places I have experienced. It was constantly moist, which made it occur to me that his system would make for an excellent green fire-break, besides getting stuff to grow fast.
I assume that your consultants will have informed you that Kauri Die-back is carried by vehicles, human and animal foot traffic plus water run-off?
I hope you succeed and will follow your project with interest.
@@billhenderson8639 Thanks again for your comments. They are consistent with my understanding of the historical link between NZ and Australia.
I have implemented preliminary bio-security measures to prevent kauri die-back (Phytophthora agathidicida) from infecting the property. These will be enhanced prior to the kauri going into the ground from May 2025. The nursery also has measures in place.
As I mentioned in my earlier comment, the first two of six videos covering the August 2023 planting have been uploaded to TH-cam. I hope you enjoy them.