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Chris Waugh

Mon, 30 Mar 2015 17:02:03 +1300

Some more late red.

Chris Waugh

Wed, 18 Mar 2015 15:24:14 +1300

Pleasantly surprised to find this as I was out exploring old stomping grounds today.

Nora Leggs

Mon, 09 Feb 2015 08:57:25 +1300

Just when you thought it was finished, another late burst, with the bees going beserk

artig

Thu, 05 Feb 2015 10:22:25 +1300

Now that the other Pohutukawa have stopped flowering, our two dwarf Pohutukawa have started putting on a show. They flowered a few months ago, then took a break, but have decided to put on another burst of blooms.

Nora Leggs

Sun, 01 Feb 2015 20:53:33 +1300

Construction site pohutukawa

Nora Leggs

Thu, 29 Jan 2015 21:16:56 +1300

Busting out – reddest thing around right now.....

Brent Jackson

Wed, 28 Jan 2015 23:11:50 +1300

It’s a wee bit broken :- (.

Brent Jackson

Wed, 28 Jan 2015 23:10:07 +1300

And a few weeks later, not only is it no longer blossuming, but it’s having a bit of a lie down, as this photo that my brother took shows.

John Farrell

Wed, 28 Jan 2015 15:06:12 +1300

Pohutukawa in Dunedin

Ian Dalziel

Tue, 27 Jan 2015 07:40:25 +1300

Looking at Vincent van Gogh's olive tree rendering, I'm thinking he would have loved painting pohutukawas...

Hilary Stace

Mon, 26 Jan 2015 22:02:50 +1300

I saw that place. Very pleasant along that Collingwood waterfront, but not really a swimming beach.

Geoff Lealand

Mon, 26 Jan 2015 17:11:52 +1300

My sister-in-law Frances Maplesden owns a house just down the road, available for renting for holidays at a reasonable rate, I think it can be found on the web as Maples Den, Collingwood,

Nora Leggs

Mon, 26 Jan 2015 09:48:26 +1300

After the fireworks – or pohutukawa by night

Nora Leggs

Sat, 24 Jan 2015 19:07:33 +1300

Perennial bloomer

Nora Leggs

Sat, 24 Jan 2015 19:07:08 +1300

Branching Bart?

Hilary Stace

Sat, 24 Jan 2015 10:04:06 +1300

Collingwood a couple of weeks ago. Rosy Glow Chocolates occupies the pink house on the right.

Nora Leggs

Thu, 22 Jan 2015 21:28:31 +1300

Someone else working on branching patterns ; )

Nora Leggs

Thu, 22 Jan 2015 21:25:31 +1300

so many beauties! all we have now is a poor reminder

RaggedJoe

Wed, 21 Jan 2015 10:53:08 +1300

Moonrise over the Alderman's behind my favourite, dune supporting much abused pohutukawa.

Nat Websta

Tue, 20 Jan 2015 16:14:17 +1300

And finally, sunshine through our home tree.

Nat Websta

Tue, 20 Jan 2015 15:56:32 +1300

And two examples from Phyllis St Reserve, made more vivid (but only just) thanks to the magic of the iPhone.

Nat Websta

Tue, 20 Jan 2015 15:53:57 +1300

The two trees at our place, during peak pohutukawa, just after Xmas

JacksonP

Sun, 18 Jan 2015 12:52:15 +1300

Apparently, thanks to Abbie and her resident expert, this is a variegated pohutukawa, which is another Kermadec varietal, on further investigation.

Lynley Chapman

Fri, 16 Jan 2015 13:41:41 +1300

A glut of Pohutukawa nectar in Wellington has seen bees take to the walls of higher learning at Victoria University. http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/65078724/Wellington-bee-swarm-finds-new-home

And another interesting feature of Pohutukawa trees are the fibrous aerial roots seen on this local tree in Porirua. Many of the trees along Oriental Bay have these aerial…

Ross McA.

Thu, 15 Jan 2015 21:31:10 +1300

From my holiday at Totaranui, Abel Tasman.

Brent Jackson

Wed, 14 Jan 2015 23:36:18 +1300

Something like this Bart ?

Not sure it shows the branching enough, but it sure is scenic !

Waitaia Bay on the Coromandel Peninsula. In the background through the tree is Hahei, and Cathedral Cove.

Sacha

Wed, 14 Jan 2015 22:41:06 +1300

it's frustrating just how many almost perfect trees are spoiled by power lines in particular

Photochop is your friend.

Nora Leggs

Wed, 14 Jan 2015 21:21:38 +1300

Just traces left now

JacksonP

Wed, 14 Jan 2015 18:40:24 +1300

And just for good measure, thought I’d show how really horrible this place can be….. ;)

Happy New Year Sofie. Hope the North is treating you well, which it would appear to be. :-)

JacksonP

Wed, 14 Jan 2015 18:34:11 +1300

A few still flowering red at Manly on Whangaparaoa, but they seem to be late bloomers amongst the rest,

Nora Leggs

Tue, 13 Jan 2015 21:23:58 +1300

Glad to see pohutukawa still going off in other parts! Reg, that's really Peak Pohutukawa.

Thanks for jealousing us up there Sofie. Looks like another world.

And Bart, there's your branching pic right there in Lynley's dancing trees!

Lynley Chapman

Tue, 13 Jan 2015 16:56:37 +1300

Pirouetting Pohutukawa in Coral colours on Paremata Road, Porirua

Lynley Chapman

Tue, 13 Jan 2015 16:51:35 +1300

Mast season Pohutukawa, Spinnaker Drive, Whitby, Porirua today.

Lynley Chapman

Tue, 13 Jan 2015 16:48:23 +1300

Spinnaker Drive, Whitby, Porirua ablaze today.

Reg Feuz

Tue, 13 Jan 2015 13:48:45 +1300

The hills of Wellington are ablaze with punctuations of red, welcoming the pleasantly warm summer we love here in the capital. The image of the Mount Street cemetery at Vic U is fitting for this renovated site: memento mori.

Bart Janssen

Tue, 13 Jan 2015 09:45:34 +1300

So all you want is the perfect pohutukawa shot, with Hobbiton in the background?

Rangitoto would work as well. Basically the kind of picture every kiwi loves to show off to the world :).

I've had a look through here and not found one that fits :(.

And actually I…

JacksonP

Mon, 12 Jan 2015 21:53:11 +1300

A request:

Hi Bart.

So all you want is the perfect pohutukawa shot, with Hobbiton in the background?

I'll get right on it. :-)

Seriously though, I would personally be happy for you to use one of my images, I just don't think I have any that meet the criteria.…

JacksonP

Mon, 12 Jan 2015 21:47:45 +1300

Hi Chris.

Thanks for posting. We seem to be having an issue with images flipping sideways, at least in the preview. It may be something to do with the size of the file, as yours is the second full resolution file to do this in the last two days.

I…

Chris Werry

Mon, 12 Jan 2015 17:31:19 +1300

Red carpet

Sofie Bribiesca

Sun, 11 Jan 2015 09:59:08 +1300

And just for good measure, thought I’d show how really horrible this place can be….. ;)

Sofie Bribiesca

Sun, 11 Jan 2015 09:39:27 +1300

(I can’t believe we have all these great pohutukawa pictures and none from Cape Reinga yet)

Managed to get up the rocks and a glance across to Mt Puheke revealed this Pohutakawa the other day.( I’ll get back soon when it is not being invaded by 4wd on the beach…

Andre

Sat, 10 Jan 2015 22:54:01 +1300

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-30754443
It's happening in the UK too...

Sacha

Fri, 09 Jan 2015 20:01:23 +1300

Waewaetorea island

surreal

Rob Stowell

Fri, 09 Jan 2015 16:54:56 +1300

Waewaetorea island.

Jonathan Ganley

Fri, 09 Jan 2015 12:20:18 +1300

First NZ band to record a song with ‘Pohutukawa’ in the title? A novelty in its day.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQULQrTOXMY

Ian Dalziel

Fri, 09 Jan 2015 11:10:38 +1300

frozen photon traces…
…the perfect picture would have several characteristics:
What about a control one also, with a measuring / survey stick for scale and possibly a colour chart for leaf and flower matching (date as well, plus GPS, soil salinity, acidity, etc?)

PS: looks pretty fractal to me –…

Bart Janssen

Fri, 09 Jan 2015 10:14:18 +1300

A request:

As some of you know we work on branching in plants (figuring out how it is regulated), we regularly give seminars and we like to have a couple of pictures of trees with different branching patterns to introduce the topic.

For years now we've been on the lookout…

Nora Leggs

Thu, 08 Jan 2015 12:03:21 +1300

animated peak pohutukawa

Dazzling! watched from start to that wonderfully clean finish.

Ian Dalziel

Thu, 08 Jan 2015 10:39:09 +1300

...and none from Cape Reinga yet
from Te Rerenga Wairua (1984)
animated peak pohutukawa at 10.40, good buddy

plus kelp!

Nora Leggs

Thu, 08 Jan 2015 09:52:26 +1300

Rainy day in December.
Mr Leggs said “Don’t look.”

Saw this oystercatcher on a pohutukawa carpet. It seemed fitting this shorebird is half on the red carpet and half on the green.
Never been this close to one before. A chance to see the beauty of the blue black feathers.…

Sacha

Wed, 07 Jan 2015 21:20:31 +1300

ah, 100m from my old home. their smoked fish one rocks too.

Richard Stewart

Wed, 07 Jan 2015 19:35:51 +1300

Further up the estuary, near the pie factory. Damn nice chili beef and cheese pie too.

Nora Leggs

Wed, 07 Jan 2015 17:49:28 +1300

There's a still point at the top

Sacha

Wed, 07 Jan 2015 17:46:04 +1300

is that near the surf club?

Russell Brown

Wed, 07 Jan 2015 16:23:03 +1300

Late to the party without a photo, but perhaps a technical observation. I was wandering around the other day having finally found the clip-on sunglass things for my glasses and it seemed to me the polarising really brought out the contrast.

I reckon. The key is sunglasses with brown lenses.…

Paul Williams

Wed, 07 Jan 2015 15:51:55 +1300

This thread makes me very happy!

Richard Stewart

Wed, 07 Jan 2015 15:11:37 +1300

Foreshore at the Maketu estuary.

Sebastian

Wed, 07 Jan 2015 13:40:07 +1300

I believe the red Flax goes well with the Pohutukawa – and under-reported …

Ian Dalziel

Wed, 07 Jan 2015 08:14:25 +1300

I bean thinking…
Legguminosae ?
pod diet tree…
Not just any old ‘broad bean’ then…
… but a scarlet runner!

Nora Leggs

Wed, 07 Jan 2015 07:52:48 +1300

Ah, Fab-aceae. Like, I bean thinking....

Ian Dalziel

Wed, 07 Jan 2015 07:39:22 +1300

on the QC...
Silk tree….
Not a Bush Lawyer then?
in the Fabaceae family, they get around...

Nora Leggs

Tue, 06 Jan 2015 20:25:19 +1300

Silk tree.... no relation?

Sacha

Tue, 06 Jan 2015 16:34:33 +1300

I also tend to feel like my eyes are responding to something brighter than I'm actually seeing but that may be normal.

I think that's the effect for us others too – ultra-vivid beyond reason.

Lyndon Hood

Tue, 06 Jan 2015 15:12:19 +1300

Bearing in mind I do have idiosyncratic eyes -…

Tony P

Tue, 06 Jan 2015 14:42:22 +1300

Our very first bloom from a tree that's been in a couple of years. Nice day here in Napier.

Ross Mason

Tue, 06 Jan 2015 13:12:14 +1300

two’s company
tree’s a crowd
or is that a tyred cliche?

Treading lightly...Looks a bit bit flat. Overhanging branches like that need to be chopped off so that this ropey thing with a circular rubber device on cannot be used to accelerate an attached humanoid to dangerous speeds just in…

Hilary Stace

Tue, 06 Jan 2015 10:15:14 +1300

The pohutukawa flowering all over Wellington has shown how big and magnificent some of these trees are.

Ian Dalziel

Tue, 06 Jan 2015 08:53:15 +1300

two's company
tree's a crowd
or is that a tyred cliche?

;- )

JacksonP

Tue, 06 Jan 2015 08:01:55 +1300

Glorious.

It’s a pretty reliable spot for sunset goodness.

Andre

Mon, 05 Jan 2015 19:39:44 +1300

Onehunga looking across to Mangere Mountain. Superb!

Nora Leggs

Mon, 05 Jan 2015 07:24:18 +1300

With gulls

Russell Brown

Sun, 04 Jan 2015 22:45:50 +1300

By the seaside, Pt Chev.

Ah! I was down there just after 6.30. Glorious.

JacksonP

Sun, 04 Jan 2015 21:26:42 +1300

By the seaside, Pt Chev.

artig

Sun, 04 Jan 2015 19:56:03 +1300

There are still a few flowering in Whakatane along the riverfront walkway.

Nora Leggs

Sun, 04 Jan 2015 18:48:49 +1300

Enriched roof

Ian Dalziel

Sun, 04 Jan 2015 09:32:44 +1300

belay that botany bay…
that’s an Australian Bottle Brush
…but still a cousin Myrtle
it’s a big family, why there’s even a ’paperbark rider’

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=taADLPtyDb0

;- )

Glenn Pearce

Sun, 04 Jan 2015 08:57:49 +1300

How very dare you Duncan, that's an Australian Bottle Brush !

Che Tibby

Sun, 04 Jan 2015 08:54:52 +1300

no photo, but the rata are also flowering prolifically. we were in the waiohine valley on boxing day, and the treetops in the distance were faintly red, bobbing along in the wind.

Duncan Brown

Sun, 04 Jan 2015 08:53:57 +1300

Kiwi Christmas tree in Napier, complete with unexpected bee ;-)

Glenn Pearce

Sun, 04 Jan 2015 08:50:19 +1300

Always in bloom

Soon Lee

Sun, 04 Jan 2015 06:36:15 +1300

Not quite fully open.
(Haven't been to Rangitoto in a while. Yesterday was a good day for it)

Soon Lee

Sun, 04 Jan 2015 06:35:02 +1300

Volcanic (scoria that is, in the background).

Soon Lee

Sun, 04 Jan 2015 06:33:56 +1300

Still a decent amount of red visible on the island.

Soon Lee

Sun, 04 Jan 2015 06:32:24 +1300

From top of Rangitoto looking back to downtown Auckland.

Nora Leggs

Sat, 03 Jan 2015 23:43:24 +1300

Shades of Bremworth

Ian Dalziel

Sat, 03 Jan 2015 21:23:05 +1300

...give it some stick!

Glenn Pearce

Sat, 03 Jan 2015 17:23:35 +1300

Maybe I should try shouting at it...

Ian Dalziel

Sat, 03 Jan 2015 16:44:51 +1300

I cannot for the life of me get Basil to grow this year
perhaps it's 'Fawlty'...

Glenn Pearce

Sat, 03 Jan 2015 14:33:29 +1300

Whatever it is that’s making the Pohutakawa bloom is also making for a bumper Tomato crop, but I cannot for the life of me get Basil to grow this year

Hilary Stace

Sat, 03 Jan 2015 12:14:23 +1300

Some good views of Basin Reserve pohutukawa via the cricket test coverage.

Sacha

Sat, 03 Jan 2015 11:45:39 +1300

and doesn't Ellis' version show the sort of elegance we could have had instead of that hokey 70s mishmash. Sigh.

Sacha

Sat, 03 Jan 2015 11:40:02 +1300

parliament is at its best when the politicians have gone

totally :)

Nora Leggs

Sat, 03 Jan 2015 10:32:41 +1300

that middle one has all the Aaah! Geee… Bee pixelelation I’ve come to expect, but set on Leggs-eleven!

Bingo!

Ian Dalziel

Sat, 03 Jan 2015 09:36:54 +1300

pre-xmas pohutukawas
Nice, that middle one has all the Aaah! Geee... Bee pixelelation I've come to expect, but set on Leggs-eleven!

Ian Dalziel

Sat, 03 Jan 2015 09:30:29 +1300

snap!
another
representation of a pohutukawa flower
separated at birth?
or will it be
pistils at dawn!

Nora Leggs

Sat, 03 Jan 2015 09:28:01 +1300

a few pre-xmas pohutukawas

that last one is the victoria park bee hotel with pohutukawa in background.

Nora Leggs

Sat, 03 Jan 2015 09:27:28 +1300

I think the ride to work at this time of year may be the reason I go to work!

a bit like David Hood and his botanical garden walk to work, could lead to excessive dawdling....

Patrick Xavier

Fri, 02 Jan 2015 23:41:54 +1300

While I think of it, Belinda Ellis’ amazing ICONZ collection includes the above representation of a pohutukawa flower (icon 35).

Jean Hughes

Fri, 02 Jan 2015 23:24:51 +1300

I love that dark red one – especially when mixed with new bright green leaf

Jean Hughes

Fri, 02 Jan 2015 23:23:37 +1300

and another on the ride – I think the ride to work at this time of year may be the reason I go to work!

Patrick Xavier

Fri, 02 Jan 2015 22:15:13 +1300

That whole line is right outside my house. (I like the southernmost one the best this year.) I wait in anticipation every year for the flocks of dive-bombing tuis, scaring the crap out of the resident starlings. WCC pruned all these trees between Xmas and NY. They seem to have…

Hebe

Fri, 02 Jan 2015 21:33:24 +1300

Banks Peninsula poot: this pohutukawa amazed me when I saw it by the side of the side of the road in the north-facing Le Bons Bay near the sea. I had not thought they flowered so well and became so large this far south. Apparently the Peninsula is getting toward…

Nora Leggs

Fri, 02 Jan 2015 21:27:23 +1300

Without the sun, such a deep deep red.

Nora Leggs

Fri, 02 Jan 2015 21:26:14 +1300

Looking for a new angle.

Nora Leggs

Fri, 02 Jan 2015 21:23:46 +1300

..still riding….

Ride on!!

What a fab collection of pohutukawa (everyone). Keep em coming.

Che Tibby

Fri, 02 Jan 2015 20:21:47 +1300

i'm soooo glad you got that tree. it's consistently the best in wellington.

Patrick Xavier

Fri, 02 Jan 2015 20:00:19 +1300

Thorndon, Wellington.

Che Tibby

Fri, 02 Jan 2015 19:34:55 +1300

cheers for the aurea!

had never seen one till the biggie in our yard flowered... now i see them everywhere in wellington.

Jean Hughes

Fri, 02 Jan 2015 19:33:24 +1300

Then a wonderful walk up Mangere Mountain....

Jean Hughes

Fri, 02 Jan 2015 19:30:49 +1300

..still riding....

Jean Hughes

Fri, 02 Jan 2015 19:29:18 +1300

still riding...

Jean Hughes

Fri, 02 Jan 2015 19:27:12 +1300

and more on the ride.... continues for next few photos

Jean Hughes

Fri, 02 Jan 2015 19:25:31 +1300

and home again in the dark..... these are pohutakawas...

Jean Hughes

Fri, 02 Jan 2015 19:24:12 +1300

And on my bike ride to work – taken on cheap phone so maybe not the best pics – but an absolutely beautiful ride there ...

Jean Hughes

Fri, 02 Jan 2015 19:21:26 +1300

A few from Mangere Bridge – my favourite bus stop for a while. Sad to see on my work travels about Auckland how many trees have been shaped to accommodate power lines. This taken earlier in December

Russell Brown

Fri, 02 Jan 2015 19:10:50 +1300

Using the camera’s vivid setting.

Post-photographic saturation seems legit in this case. It's quite hard to capture the eyewitnessed intensity of a fresh blooming — as if the phone camera won't accept that anything is that vivid.

JacksonP

Fri, 02 Jan 2015 18:40:32 +1300

FOund another in the can from a recent trip to Ohope, at the Ohiwa Harbour end. This camping ground was planted with trees all reaching a reasonable size for shade. We got there the day it opened for the season, and there were more trees than humans.

Ian Dalziel

Fri, 02 Jan 2015 17:08:41 +1300

across the water from Marsden Point
...very refined!
Do these ones go deep purple?
;= )

Ian Dalziel

Fri, 02 Jan 2015 17:06:04 +1300

pohutakawa wall outside parliament
Garden Danger!
Reds in the beds!!

Getcha best burghers at Pohutakaways

Ben McNicoll

Fri, 02 Jan 2015 15:16:34 +1300

A couple from around the base of Mt Aubrey, in Whangarei Heads (across the water from Marsden Point).

Hilary Stace

Fri, 02 Jan 2015 15:02:03 +1300

The pohutakawa wall outside parliament is at its best when the politicians have gone

JacksonP

Fri, 02 Jan 2015 13:41:36 +1300

Another from Waiheke.

Russell Brown

Fri, 02 Jan 2015 13:25:48 +1300

Westmere and Cox’s Bay.

Russell Brown

Fri, 02 Jan 2015 13:24:57 +1300

It struck me the angles on our consecutive shots were uncannily in-sync. So I did a twiddly thing.

Nice :-)

Soon Lee

Fri, 02 Jan 2015 13:23:43 +1300

From this morning's walk: Pohutukawa & spider silk.

JacksonP

Fri, 02 Jan 2015 13:20:32 +1300

Pohutukawa blooms lie in drifts in the gutters; the confetti of yesterday’s parade.

It struck me the angles on our consecutive shots were uncannily in-sync. So I did a twiddly thing. Not sure it works, but it's Friday, I'm on holiday, and Photoshop was open.

Happy Newness!

kalypso

Fri, 02 Jan 2015 10:52:29 +1300

Pre-Christmas pohutukawa at Paihia.

Lynley Chapman

Fri, 02 Jan 2015 09:41:14 +1300

That awkward adolescent phase.....

Hilary Stace

Fri, 02 Jan 2015 09:40:10 +1300

I suspect that damage done by tree roots seeking water lies behind much drain repairing around Wellington and elsewhere.

Geoff Lealand

Thu, 01 Jan 2015 21:55:25 +1300

Interesting that the metrosideros used to be a favoured street tree in San Francisco but it is now regarded as a pest as it is so disruptive of underground utilities.

Hilary Stace

Thu, 01 Jan 2015 20:19:42 +1300

Although a steady stream visited Old St Paul's.

Hilary Stace

Thu, 01 Jan 2015 20:17:45 +1300

Remaining Wellingtonians and their visitors were probably all at Oriental Bay today

Hilary Stace

Thu, 01 Jan 2015 20:15:49 +1300

Outside Parliament today. Gradations of colour in Molesworth Street.

Ian Dalziel

Thu, 01 Jan 2015 16:31:57 +1300

drain nadir…
Pohutukawa blooms lie in drifts in the gutters
Stamen down,
a brush with death
stay man, down
sprinkled with spray
Tawhaki’s blood clogs the gutter
running back to the sea…

...and let's not forget the Masons...

Russell Brown

Thu, 01 Jan 2015 16:05:59 +1300

More Meola.

Russell Brown

Thu, 01 Jan 2015 16:03:10 +1300

Meola Road. Pohutukawa blooms lie in drifts in the gutters; the confetti of yesterday’s parade.

JacksonP

Thu, 01 Jan 2015 14:51:02 +1300

Bush walk, Waiheke.

Nora Leggs

Thu, 01 Jan 2015 09:08:41 +1300

Red all around

Using the camera’s vivid setting.

Nora Leggs

Thu, 01 Jan 2015 09:07:17 +1300

top of Mt St Johns

Back at ya from Mt Hobson

Brent Jackson

Wed, 31 Dec 2014 22:56:17 +1300

Coromandel pohutukawa seemed especially vivid this year. So much so, that I took a specific photo of the redified beach.

Nora Leggs

Wed, 31 Dec 2014 17:11:15 +1300

Not red, but rugged.

Nora Leggs

Wed, 31 Dec 2014 17:04:47 +1300

gold sparkles

Aaaaaah : ) Beauty.

And most impressed with Wellington Central Oriental Bay Pohutukawa – who knew they could be so restrained?

Hilary Stace

Wed, 31 Dec 2014 16:36:16 +1300

This pohutukawa has gold sparkles all through the flowers, even on a cloudy day

Soon Lee

Wed, 31 Dec 2014 15:01:13 +1300

The end of the pohutukawa season?

TracyMac

Wed, 31 Dec 2014 12:48:55 +1300

Kaiaua, a few days ago.

Russell Brown

Wed, 31 Dec 2014 12:04:07 +1300

And very nicely timed — Otis Frzzell and Mike Weston's new jute bags for Countdown, employing the pohutukawa logo Otis has been playing with for years.

JacksonP

Wed, 31 Dec 2014 10:54:47 +1300

More Onetangi.

mike.riversdale

Wed, 31 Dec 2014 09:24:54 +1300

Miramar's Pohutakawa king

Greg Presland

Wed, 31 Dec 2014 07:32:02 +1300

I had no idea this could even happen.

You can blame the Wellington Public Service lifestyle!

Ian Dalziel

Wed, 31 Dec 2014 07:18:22 +1300

Mabe next year.
...waits with
baited breath?
;- )

Hebe

Wed, 31 Dec 2014 01:50:24 +1300

I'm all shades of southern envy.

Lynley Chapman

Tue, 30 Dec 2014 22:07:43 +1300

Feijoa Bambina busy flowering right now.

Ian Dalziel

Tue, 30 Dec 2014 21:55:20 +1300

glory metrosideros in excelsas deo...
Let's not diminish the fine, if not ruddy excellent, seasonal job done by that other rubine-remnanted Myrtle cousin – the Feijoa

Dunno about this Acca (formerly known as Feijoa} nonsense though...

mike gemmell

Tue, 30 Dec 2014 21:53:08 +1300

a yellow pohutukawa in the esplanade in Palmerston North

Russell Brown

Tue, 30 Dec 2014 21:25:28 +1300

A couple of the local trees at Little Oneroa. It’s certainly been the best year for pohutukawa at Waiheke that I’ve seen in ages.

I think yours is my favourite in the thread so far. It captures how these trees have been looking.

Russell Brown

Tue, 30 Dec 2014 21:24:16 +1300

How is this for a Wellington Central Oriental Bay Pohutukawa?

I had no idea this could even happen.

Greg Presland

Tue, 30 Dec 2014 21:19:21 +1300

How is this for a Wellington Central Oriental Bay Pohutukawa?

Raymond A Francis

Tue, 30 Dec 2014 21:00:46 +1300

Being a southern man and spending this Christmas in New Plymouth this is the first time I have seen pohutukawa in bloom..wow
Rata has its moments but I am just blown away by the display around town
Great pictures

JacksonP

Tue, 30 Dec 2014 20:29:01 +1300

Having a flaky old time with my tethered internet. Couple more.

Splash of red.

Peek pohutukawa?

PS Very nice to see you all jumping in, and a few new people as well! Cheers.

JacksonP

Tue, 30 Dec 2014 20:19:26 +1300

It’s certainly been the best year for pohutukawa at Waiheke that I’ve seen in ages.

I concur. Just did a little pohutukawa promenade down Onetangi Beach. Some fine specimens in the twilight.

Russell Brown

Tue, 30 Dec 2014 19:59:39 +1300

Refused to receive second deputation “because they had refused the first request”.

Well clearly, that's a really good reason and you should have just gone away and stopped bothering them.

Gah.

Abbie

Tue, 30 Dec 2014 19:48:03 +1300

Seriously, yes. Refused to receive community deputation. Refused to receive second deputation "because they had refused the first request". Refused to hear a deputation of kaumatua. Refused to receive petition signed by over 1000 people. That is democracy Taranaki Regional Council style.

Nora Leggs

Tue, 30 Dec 2014 19:35:01 +1300

Across the harbour

or screening offices

Nora Leggs

Tue, 30 Dec 2014 19:34:36 +1300

Why does Rangitoto never look red?

Good point!

Sacha

Tue, 30 Dec 2014 18:53:15 +1300

Vivid as. Wow.

Soon Lee

Tue, 30 Dec 2014 18:45:29 +1300

The three nephews were in town so we went with them to Kelly Tarlton's. This was taken in the carpark.

Alastair Jamieson

Tue, 30 Dec 2014 18:42:37 +1300

A couple of the local trees at Little Oneroa. It’s certainly been the best year for pohutukawa at Waiheke that I’ve seen in ages.

Chris Waugh

Tue, 30 Dec 2014 18:39:57 +1300

Thanks, Russell. That was one of the obvious possible causes. I was also wondering if it was something on the university network, considering my phone doesn't have the same problem, but if I can use IE on my computer, then it ain't the network. Firefox has been giving me trouble…

Russell Brown

Tue, 30 Dec 2014 18:39:17 +1300

Just a note for anyone who hasn't posted here before.

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2. 500KB to 1MB is a good size for a photo. I export from iPhoto at "High Quality" and "Large", which comes out around 1MB.

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Aaron Hutching

Tue, 30 Dec 2014 18:37:09 +1300

Te Atatu Peninsula in bloom.

Russell Brown

Tue, 30 Dec 2014 18:31:13 +1300

but whether I use Firefox or Maxthon on my computer I get redirected to www.cjb.net. internet explorer works fine – by which I mean only that it will let me open public address – which is most annoying. I still can’t persuade chrome to actually do anything.

That sounds like…

Thomas Lumley

Tue, 30 Dec 2014 18:29:59 +1300

Why does Rangitoto never look red?

Chris Waugh

Tue, 30 Dec 2014 18:22:54 +1300

Beautiful trees.

But I'm having a strange problem with public address: I can access it fine on my phone, both via the wifi at the restaurant where I got lunch and via China mobile, but whether I use Firefox or Maxthon on my computer I get redirected to www.cjb.net. internet…

Nora Leggs

Tue, 30 Dec 2014 18:13:29 +1300

Drizzly day

great frosting

Nora Leggs

Tue, 30 Dec 2014 18:11:58 +1300

thanks for chipping in on the lead post

no worries, been stashing away these flaming reds.

a couple from pre-bloom days

Russell Brown

Tue, 30 Dec 2014 18:03:28 +1300

Can I add the 23 biggest and best pohutukawa that the Taranaki Regional Council are hellbent on felling beside our Waitara River?

Seriously? Gah.

Russell Brown

Tue, 30 Dec 2014 18:01:44 +1300

It’s hard to capture the hyper-vivid red of the freshly-bloomed trees. But I had a little play with Camera+ settings for this cluster in Western Springs.

Russell Brown

Tue, 30 Dec 2014 17:59:37 +1300

The tree at the corner of our deck has flowered well this year. It’s nice to have there.

Sacha

Tue, 30 Dec 2014 17:53:35 +1300

awesome sky

Lynley Chapman

Tue, 30 Dec 2014 17:41:34 +1300

Across the road in Porirua. Metrosideros excelsa aurea. Golden Pohutukawa seemed to flower first around us this year. Reds are bursting forth now.

peter mclennan

Tue, 30 Dec 2014 17:24:38 +1300

top of Mt St Johns

Sacha

Tue, 30 Dec 2014 16:52:20 +1300

Intense red carpet in Onehunga.

Sacha

Tue, 30 Dec 2014 16:47:00 +1300

Stream of photos of (mostly) pohutukawa:
https://twitter.com/search?q=pohutukawa&src=typd&mode=photos

artig

Tue, 30 Dec 2014 16:29:05 +1300

Drizzly day in early December on Hillcrest, Whakatane.

JacksonP

Tue, 30 Dec 2014 16:27:51 +1300

Lots of large trees in bloom on Waiheke, many still providing beach shade, which is one of their best design features.

Abbie

Tue, 30 Dec 2014 16:23:29 +1300

I promised him faithfully that I would not embarrass him with this photo – hence the indifferent quality – but the man to whom I am married has a zero online presence so he will never know. Doing his yoga stretches beneath a pohutukawa at the back of the viewing…

Myr lock

Tue, 30 Dec 2014 16:16:09 +1300

Strathmore.

JacksonP

Tue, 30 Dec 2014 16:10:03 +1300

Awesome Nora, thanks for chipping in on the lead post. A great last seat-of-the-pants post for 2014. :-)

JacksonP

Tue, 30 Dec 2014 16:03:54 +1300

This newbie is on Waiheke Island at Stony Batter. Seems not everyone appreciates the fact it takes 80 years or more to grow from this to the size of the Western Springs 6 or the Waitara 23.

Nora Leggs

Tue, 30 Dec 2014 16:02:55 +1300

least likely locations

Abbie

Tue, 30 Dec 2014 15:56:16 +1300

By what I think is East End Beach in New Plymouth. Near Strandon, anyway.

Abbie

Tue, 30 Dec 2014 15:55:17 +1300

Pollen falling on the road into Waitara.

Abbie

Tue, 30 Dec 2014 15:54:27 +1300

Can I add the 23 biggest and best pohutukawa that the Taranaki Regional Council are hellbent on felling beside our Waitara River? https://www.facebook.com/SAVE.the.Waitara.Riverside.Pohutukawa

Russell Brown

Tue, 30 Dec 2014 15:44:17 +1300

More to come, but here are a couple of shots of the early bloomers down at St Mary’s Bay.

Public Address

Tue, 30 Dec 2014 15:44:17 +1300

Discussion from blog post.