Horty Kim

It has been a busy,productive week in the Natural Resources department at Otago Polytechnic-we kicked off with hedge pruning on monday,hosted a horticulture information day with the dunedin botanic garden,and another spectacular plant display was installed in the foyer at L block.Todays horttalk starred Rhys Gibbs from Nichol’s Nursery who delivered an insight into garden trends.Rhys also spoke to the students about creating retail garden displays when we went on a field trip to Nichol’ in preparation for planning the temporary plant displays pictured below.
The team native plant display received great feedback and an important message was re inforced with a powerful poem written by Hazrat.
Team native was pleased with the support from the Yellow Eyed Penguin Trust who lent them plants for their display.

Team tropical installed their plant display yesterday and again a very powerful conservation message was the theme for this display. Team tropical appreciated the support from the Dunedin Botanic Garden and the Red Barn for lending them plants for their display.

I was very impressed with the students ability to embrace the design principles we covered in our theory classes and apply them to designing,installing,maintaining and dismantling a plant display.

Steve and Alice from the Dunedin Botanic Garden agreed to choose a winning team.I am glad I do not have to make this decision!

Ok so it is Friday night and I am just starting to pull together a plan for our trip to Otago Polytechnic’ Central Otago campus where we will start to gather and create resources for training and pruning fruit trees.Alex Huffadine has agreed to a video shoot and has created a presentation for this specialized area.Should be good!Lovely juvly as Alex would say.

In the meantime I am going to google and embed some links on the subject into dis here blog and do a bit of reading.
Ovah and out!
Nutshell 830
Palmers Guide To Successful Fruit Tree Growing
Pruning Fruit Trees Workshop Okeover Community Garden
Autumn Care for Fruit Trees

UMass Fruit Advisor, 02/12/07, Pruning central-leader apples on you tube
Pruning Apple Tree time lapse
Pruning fruit trees in Carroll County, Arkansas
UMass Fruit Advisor: apple training techniques
UMass Fruit Advisor — June 18, 2007
UMass Fruit Advisor: June 23, 2006
UMass Fruit Advisor: Bud removal of sweet cherry