Horty Kim

I just read my last blogged and I seemed to do a lot of tweaking that day.Today i am working from home and I will be looking for resources on the innernet.I found some really good stuff yesterday for the unit on botanic nomenclature and the plant identification unit which will be balanced with our own video and slide shows.Speaking of which i will be travelling to Wanaka not this weekend but the following which will be a fun time because Pip(good bud and wife of Nige Vege Garden) is meeting us at her place there and we can catch up and do a working bee in her garden.On that monday i have arranged to meet Wayne at the cromwell campus and shoot some vid that will become resources for the weed units.This is a video of Wayne mulching all the grape prunings when we were there last.

I will also continue to upload vid to blip.tv as there is still some pruning stuff I have not uploaded.I am really looking forward to seeing the video Sunshine shot and she is going to do some DVDs of the stuff shot for machinery,chainsaw safety,and fruit tree pruning!!So exciting.Having said that we are now out of budget for filming but Leigh reckons the stuff i shoot is fit for porpoises or maybe he said purpose(it’s Terry’ saying)so I will fly with that.
Jeeez it has gone all cold and breezy again but the spring rain is a bonus for all our gardens.I can literally see things growing-I think my raselberrys are going to be delicious.Ok so time to light the fire,grab my coffee and put in some concentrated hours.

I have left this big gap because I have been embedding lots of vid into my blog and that is where they should be appearing???Must ask Leigh about this although I think it is something to do with something and I bet they come up if i check my blog tomorrow at work.
Great news!One of the collection curators at the Dunedin Botanic Garden is going to contribute to resources for plant ID and botanic nomenclature.I guess the thing I like about this is that our resources will include many experts with reliable information which adds kudos to the entire project.In a world where information is abundant and accessible it is good to cross reference and cross reference and cross reference using reliable experts , books , web sites , well generally all forms of information available.