Native seedlings in the manuka canopy

Native seedlings are popping up in ones and twos everywhere, but under the manuka canopy they are in dozens. There seem to be a lot more of them this year, though this year's observations may just have been at the right time, ie after rain, with warmer weather, and before natural attrition and summer drought.

This spot, under manuka canopy and 2-3m from the sunlit Arena, has
all these seedlings within a radius of less than 1.5m

...and, beside the odd watsonia leaf, one weed seedling - a gorse, easily uprooted.

Posted on September 16, 2019 08:24 AM by kaipatiki_naturewatch