Meet More Of Christchurch’s Heritage Trees — With Added Poetry Goodness
We Still Really Need Your Help: Please Give A Little — & Help Us Save Christchurch’s Heritage and Notable Trees
There’s now just 3 days to go: O-o!
But there’s still time to meet more of the trees that face losing their current protected status. I hope you enjoy meeting them — and will consider if you can give a little, or even a little more, to help us keep fighting their corner.
Meet the Burnside Cabbage Tree/s:
“The Burnside cabbage tree/s are old–several hundred years old … and also culturally significant…”
As noted on the Give A Little site, the Burnside cabbage tree is not proposed for continued listing and protection.
And here’s the poem (just a few lines):
“Cordyline on a windswept point stark
each frond stabbing
sharp as a taiaha’s blade …”
To read the full poem, click on: “Ti: Akaroa Heads”
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Meet the Cooptown Limes:
The following is quoted directly from my evidence for the hearings:
“Located at Cooptown on SH 75, this lime avenue was planted in 1940 to commemorate the centenary of the Treaty of Waitangi …”
Again, the Council’s current proposal is that the Cooptown limes not continue to be listed or protected under the Replacement Plan.
To find out more about these trees — and if you can, please Give a Little — click on:
Saving Christchurch’s Heritage and Notable Trees
Then go to Updates to “Meet the Trees.”