Natural flora regeneration is underway

After twelve years of restoration work in the gully it is evident that the natural cycle has started with self-seeding of numerous native plants. Some, like a pukatea, are seeding from a tree planted well before we started but has only recently come into full maturity. There are numerous kahikatea, totara, wine berry, cabbage trees (by the thousand), mapou, rewarewa, tree fuchsia, kawakawa, hebe stricta, pate, swamp coprosma, manuka and kanuka all off doing their own thing. All we have to do now is keep the weeds down to let them thrive. Photo: A self sown pukatea seedling - Rex Bushell