Native... stuff

I was at work on Saturday and noticed the alpine coprosma's were fruiting!!

Before you say anything I'm ok about the fact that I'm a geek...

These plants produce tiny (7mm ish) berries which can be some quite out there colours as well as often being translucent. At the moment we've only got one that has blue fruit.

FYI they also taste pretty much like grapes :)

When I saw them I of course ran and got my camera from the car to get a few pics, and kept it on me for the rest of the day to see what else I found in the way of native flowering things.

Lots of our hebes are flowering now, with a few bees visiting them


The manuka's are looking great, and even though you can't see it in the pic, the sun was reflecting off the nectar they were producing, and lots of flowers had ants in them making the most of it


My favorite native ground cover plant - Pratia angulata. This plant really is THE BOMB! Grows really well in Wellington and looks awesome :)



The native Fuchsia procumbens is also flowering and I saw two tui's visiting our plants for a feed - the first time I've seen Tui's doing that it was very cool!