1,164 for the year
The 2026 planting season reached 1,164 plants — and with the nursery running short, we are buying plants in to grow on for next winter.
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Updates from the cape
Working bees, sightings, milestones and the occasional longer piece.
The thousandth plant, and a pair of grey warblers
A working bee cut short by wind still passed a thousand plants for the year — and a pair of riroriro were found nesting beside the path, in a weed.
Read more →The whole hillside, mapped
Around 213 plants went in on 2 August with about twenty people — and the whole hillside was surveyed into nineteen blocks, which is where every shape on this site comes from.
Read more →Rained off, and the track closed
Forty-nine plants went in between working bees, the July planting was rained off, the plant protectors warped, and flood damage closed the Cape track.
Read more →425 plants and 35 people
The biggest planting day the project has had, on the zigzag below Lookout Point — and four of the planters were between five and ten years old.
Read more →Getting ready to plant
Permission to plant, permission to spray, a water tank, and four or five hundred spots strimmed and marked out on the zigzag before a single plant went in.
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