Auckland Garden Club

05/06/2026

Just got back from our Annual General Meeting (AGM) and Prize Giving. Our AGMs are not boring. We do the business along with lots of fun. More pictures to follow. Thanks to Toni Kim for organising the beautiful table settings.

22/05/2026

This morning a keen group from the Auckland Garden Club visited the Sanctuary Mahi Whenua. Trevor related to them the history of the site and how the community garden and food forest operated. He explained the provenance and history of some of the special plants as we toured the Sanctuary (details for many at https://www.sanctuaryunitec.garden/biodiversity). From the food forest they sampled the yellow fruit of the kei apple tree (Dovyalis caffra).

22/05/2026

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On the underside of many oxalis leaves (genus Oxalis) at the Sanctuary Mahi Whenua are yellow dots of the oxalis rust fungus (Puccinia oxalidis). Although oxalis rust is common, it appears to be in balance with its host so does not control oxalis plants -- to the dismay of many gardeners.

22/05/2026

This information on the apple can be found on the Sanctuary garden’s website. It was delicious.

22/05/2026

More pictures from our trip today to the Sanctuary Mahi Whenua Gardens and food Forest on the side of Oakley Creek, on land once owned by Unitec.

22/05/2026

We were fortunate to have Trevor from Sanctuary Community Organic Garden give us a guided tour today. Visit this garden now before it is destroyed. See their website sanctuaryunitec.garden

22/05/2026

Our Trip today.
More posts to follow.
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Pigsqueak -- a name given due to the sound produced when two leaves are rubbed together -- belongs to the genus Bergenia and is growing in a pocket garden at the Sanctuary Mahi Whenua. Bergenia is a genus of ten species of flowering plants in the family Saxifragaceae, native to central Asia, from Afghanistan to China and the Himalayan region. Members are clump-forming, rhizomatous, evergreen perennials with a spirally arranged rosette of leaves with pink flowers produced in a cyme (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bergenia).

18/05/2026

We were due to go this Friday to the Urban Jungle in Freemans Bay, Auckland City. Unfortunately this has been cancelled. I will be contacting club members who were going to offer an alternative trip.
Picture is from the page of the NZ Gardens Trust.

05/05/2026

Some of the activities Auckland Garden Club has been up to recently.

04/05/2026

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This is where you can get your soil! The talk last Friday was very informative.

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