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Approximate size: 1500 m2
Garden description: Our garden is officially 1100m2 suburban garden, but overflows out the back gate onto an area backing onto railway land which we have utilised to extend our plantings. We are very interested in our NZ butterflies and have planted host plants for their larvae, and nectar plants for the adult butterflies. Current butterfly visitors are NZ Yellow Admirals, NZ Red Admirals, Monarchs, NZ Common copper and NZ common blue butterflies. We also encourage Cinnabar moths and Magpie moths among others. Our little orchard supplies us with apples, lemons, oranges, lemonades, pears, cherries, plums, figs, currents, marionberries, tayberries, blackberries, strawberries, grapes, and, if we are lucky we get some food from that selection when the birds have finished! The vegetable patch is a good size for year round planting, and I try to ensure there is very little area not growing something including cover crops of oats, wheat, barley, phacelia, lupins or buckwheat or tagetes depending on the time of year. My favourite patch is the perennial border and flower garden which allows me to indulge my passion for flowers and leaves. We have been here a few years and our native tree plantings are beginning to produce some results with this years thrill being flowers on the ratas and the manukas for our local bees to forage. We lost two original beehives to the varroa mite and gave up, storing our boxes in the shed, BUT the wild bees came and chose us to our delight, which meant moving the boxes back out to somewhere more convenient. Maybe we'll have honey again. Nine chooks keep us company and free range on a large proportion of the property. The chooks are of various purebreed and more dubious stock, are all named, have very distinct characters and keep us in more eggs than we need. I am proud to say that we have received registration and certification as a butterfly habitat by the MBNZT (Monarch Butterfly NZ Trust) and there are usually some caterpillars to be seen :))))))))))))