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Autumn Inspiration Album
Arboreal art - painting on the landscape with trees.
In recent years there has been a tremendous upsurge in the planting of native trees. This is good, for the New Zealand forest – bush – is a magnificent thing. In my view native trees are best suited to such close and comprehensive associations and, with exceptions, don’t lend themselves to open cultivation to the same extent as exotics. In the minds of many environmentalists exotic trees are decidedly relegated to natives. Well, I’ve got nothing against exotics – I’m one myself – and it must be remembered that introduced flora and flora provide us with the food and fiber that is the basis of our economy and sustenance of life.
Further, they have added greatly to our urban and rural landscapes. The deciduous exotics (natives are evergreen) also offer the dynamics of colour change throughout the four seasons, emerging from bareness in the winter to fresh leaf-burst in the spring with their varied and translucent colours in the spring (the scene of the sites masthead is a rural vista in spring). Then full green foliage in the summer and passing through sometimes brilliant colours in the autumn.
Deciduous trees also have the advantage of allowing sunlight to penetrate through to the ground during the winter period, thereby encouraging grass, especially pasture, and other plants to grow.
There are 17 images in this gallery.
Last updated: Fri, 01/15/2010 - 09:53
Ti Kouka Project Album
Shades of the iconic New Zealand cabbage tree
There are 19 images in this gallery.
Last updated: Mon, 02/15/2010 - 14:56