A .Note From “The Hoe.” Mountain Ribbon-wood i
It can surely be assumed that ignorance of the' merits of ninny New Zealand shrubs is the sole reason why they are so poorly represented in the average garden. Let us, for a moment, just look at a single example of our beautiful indigenous
flora—Gaya Lyalli (mountain rib-bon-wood). This is one of the few New Zealand shrubs' w ’icli produces autumn tints and is deciduous. Its blossoms are not unlike those of a snow-white flowering cherry, and are produced in such profusion that they almost hide the leaves As a flowering shrub it is therefor worthy of a home in the garden. But there is also beauty in its foliage, "the undersurface of which is covered with a down.formed by minute hairs: The leaves are soft and tender unlike t, e hard glossy type which charac-; terises most, of our natives. , 1
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Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 75, 21 December 1934, Page 9
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150A .Note From “The Hoe.” Mountain Ribbon-wood i Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 75, 21 December 1934, Page 9
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