Rosette
Low to the ground, the leaves of broadleaf plantain (Plantago major).
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October 28, 2017
July 27, 2012
The Sky above Sylvia Park
Looking up
I had to visit this Temple of Consumption that is Sylvia Park. Looking up from the concourse in front of Whitcoulls and Dick Smith, I saw wispy clouds surrounded by the architectural embellishments of the place.
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February 16, 2011
Onions
Bagged Onions near Waiuku
On our recent trip to Manukau Heads, we came across large fields of onions in various states of the harvest. This field is on the Awhitu Road just out of Waiuku.
The region around Pukekohe is famous for the produce grown here, and onions form a significant part of the production. Much of the harvest is for export, Europe and Japan being the main markets. The Pukekohe Longkeeper variety was developed here by John Turbot in the 1920s. It is a fairly hard and pungent kind of onion with excellent storage characteristics, now the mainstay of local crops.
Onion Harvest (Waiuku)