Ōtari-Wilton’s Bush Trust / December 2022
New Zealand’s only botanic garden dedicated solely to native plants, and one hundred hectares of ancient and regenerating forest, all of it just a few kilometres from Wellington’s CBD. Ōtari-Wilton’s Bush is designated a six-star Garden of International Significance by the New Zealand’s Gardens Trust of the Royal New Zealand Institute of Horticulture.
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The heroes of Ōtari-Wilton’s Bush - interview with Kim Hill
- Ōtari-Wilton’s Bush Trust
- Bee Dawson, commissioned author of Ōtari: Two hundred years of Ōtari-Wilton’s Bush, has been busy with interviews, telling of how much she learned and the delightful encounters she enjoyed with key people in the Ōtari community, while researching for the book.
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Ōtari-Wilton’s Bush, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Voices of the Kaiwharawhara
- Ōtari-Wilton’s Bush Trust
- In 2022, the Voices of the Kaiwharawhara communications project was completed by Science Masters student Janel Hull, as part of her Science in Society Student Research for Science Communication at Victoria University of Wellington. Janel aimed to tell inspirational stories about Wellingtonians working towards restoring the Kaiwharawhara Stream. These stories highlighted volunteers, Māori, citizen scientists, scientists, youth, and business leaders, and included some of our Trust members.
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Ōtari-Wilton’s Bush, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Allan Mere Award for our Dr Carol West
- Ōtari-Wilton’s Bush Trust
- In September we learned that Dr Carol West, Chair of the Ōtari-Wilton’s Bush Trust (OWBT), was to be awarded the Allan Mere for 2022. The Allan Mere is awarded by the New Zealand Botanical Society to recognize outstanding botanists who make significant contributions to New Zealand botany. The pounamu mere is named after Harry Howard Allan – the first Director of the former DSIR Botany Division, and author of the first volume of the DSIR New Zealand Flora series.
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Ōtari-Wilton’s Bush, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Saving the orchids
- Ōtari-Wilton’s Bush Trust
- Nationally significant research to save rare native orchids is being undertaken in a tiny science lab at Ōtari-Wilton’s Bush in Wellington. Finding Ōtari conservation and science advisor Dr Karin van der Walt and research technician Jennifer Alderton-Moss is a bit of a mission. The pair work from a small cottage behind Ōtari’s plant nursery, hidden from visitors who wander the trails exploring New Zealand’s single largest collection of native plants.
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Ōtari-Wilton’s Bush, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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