We went for a mid-winter trip to the Botanic Gardens for a run and to see the glasshouse plants.
There is a big pile of long skinny stones in the background of the
cactus garden. We have some of the same kind of stones in our garden.
The arrangement here makes me wonder if they come from the Organ Pipes, a
basalt formation near Dunedin. They are the wrong colour though... There must be a lot of these kind of rocks around Dunedin somewhere for them to show up in our garden and here as well.
They have a nice selection of carnivorous plants,
You can ask at the Information Centre for a free bag of feed (crushed barley?) for the ducks. The pond was frozen the day we went and it was funny to see them slipping and sliding on top of the water. Most of them stayed on the footpath and mobbed us.
It was freezing up North East Valley and the ice had pushed the soil up as it froze.
We talked to the parrots (some of which talked back) then went home to warm up.
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