As we had to re-arrange our meetings due to conflicting calendars the pot making session was brought forward to April. Sandra asked for club members to let her know what type of pot they were interested in making as there are differing levels of wetness in the clay for slab and pinch pots. Great fun [...]

This year we tried to get everyone to bring along the trees they had worked on with Tony last year. Unfortunately not everyone was able to make it and some of the trees had not survived the winter so there were a number of new trees for Tony to have a look at as well. [...]

When Tony met George George - a large Juniperus pfitzeriana was saved from George St, Auckland in October 2000. He was a sad sight indeed, growing hard up against an apartment blocks foundations, completely overgrown with weeds and large conifers and lots of dead branches. From the day she first met him, Melody [...]

We began the year with a new venue – one of the classrooms at WinTec Horticultural School at the Hamilton Gardens. The first meeting of 2016 was mostly one of organising and rearranging things, plus a ‘Show and Tell’ session about some of our trees, a look at our new website and a special [...]