h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I'm off to NZ!! I've got loads more research to do on it before I go but I've decided that I'm now going at the end of this year! Woohoo!!

I've gotta find out about flights, accomodation, where I'm gonna go, and most importantly ..... gardens that are open to the public!! I'm a horticulturist and TOTALLY obsessed with plants! All my friends get so bored of me going on about them, but it's what I'm passionate about, and so I want to go and see different areas of the world, and the variety of plants in each place. I worked for a short time at the National Botanic Garden of Wales, and there was a part of the Great Glasshouse devoted to New Zealand and Western Australia, and the plants......amazing?! Forget about your bog standard Eucalyptus, they've got a plant called Anigozanthus, or Kangaroo Paw, when the flower opens it does actually look like a paw, it's really freaky!!

So if anyone has any info bout what do to and where to go in NZ, any advice is gratefully received!

L x

Traveller in Time in a tree
"Did they not also recently discover a tree like fern ? "

Yeah I think they did!! Some spp that they thought was extinct and some bloke was wandering through a random bit of the forest and found a tree he didn't recognise, a bit like a redwood, but much older, he picked a twig, put it in his rucksack, totally forgot about it for a couple of months and then sent it off to find out what it was, turns out it was this almost extinct spp that they haven't found anywhere else in the world (so far) !! How cool is that?!?! I'd love to do summat like that, he even ended up having the spp named after him..... how does Lonnwy Lonniana sound? Tehehe!!

So, come on then what's your new job, and where? If you dont mind me asking, that is?! You sound really happy about it so I've kinda gotta ask!!

Hiya Lucky, i've spotted you on a few threads that i also hang around in!

So, off to NZ eh, truly lucky!

You might like to go & say hi to Kea at U212656 who is an old* hootoo mate of mine who lives in NZ, she is very & can propbably give you some insider info on plants 'n stuff. Just say zendevil Terri & Yoda sent you.

*erk! as in "known online for a while", not

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