Thank you, it’s native to New Zealand. I am growing it on spagnum (spagnum seeweed mix), the spagnum is dried, not killed, so it does not rot easily and may grow again if kept in the right conditions.
The spagnum is also apparently sustainably harvested in New Zealand. however I have my doubts on how sustainable it actually is, so Im trying to grow future batches myself (grows so slow, and im pretty bad at re-aliving it)
Thabk you! I love them to.
Thank you! I was so happy when I saw flowers with the new shoots. I think it loves it there now :)
More on the wild side I love bilberrys! and they are native to the UK. Delicious and great garden decor
Thank you!
Also how does a seed library work? is it where people bring there excess grown seeds to share with others, because if so that’s so cool, I wish we had a thing like that here
Thank you for your lovely reply. I’ll try and answer as best as I can.
I stumble across most seed’s while doing other things in the forest such as tramping or pest trapping. While the Kowhai seeds I grab from a beautiful old naturally bonsaid tree on an island I do conservation on.
The idea of eco-sourcing is that plants of the same species have regional variation which makes them better suited/more benificial for that region. So we want to plant planted with seed that came from a wild plant in the ecological region they are planted in. (Another benifit of wild plants is more genetic diversity).
The nursery is purely for conservation and is partnered with our department of conservation they sell plants at a price low enouph to buy the stuff to grow more plants and everyone there is a volenteer growing plants for fun (mostly lovely old people).
Ive been eco-sourcing some nikau, kowhai, kareao and puriri seeds to bring to our native plant nursery where I volunteer at. Im also going to try and grow some kareao in my room.
For harder ceramics like these a diamand coated bit (they aren’t as expensive as the name makes the seem), always use water and drill through super slow so it doesn’t crack (a minute or longer). Good luck!!
I either drill holes or for round ones put a smaller plastic draining pot inside
Its outdoors, it can be to warm inside for these orchids to be happy