Otago Polytechnic Spring Permaculture Design Course 2008

Hortykim updates wiki with our first session on Oct 16.

The Lister Garden, Dunedin Botanic Garden, NZ

Hortykim takes you on a wee tour of The Lister Garden which will be used as a model garden for unit 22209.

Dunedin Botanic Garden Bedding Display

Hortykim re- visits a bedding display that was changed over by Otago Polytechnic students and Botanic Garden Staff during the week of April 14 – April 18 2008

Hortykim back on track

Dear blog,please forgive me for my lack of attentiveness.I have been to canada and back-still feeling a bit fragmented.I did have a fantastic morning with Leigh as he loaded my assessments and course schedule onto the wiki…Check this out!

As part of my new position as a teaching and resource assistant I will be teaching a unit on developing maintenance programmes for hard and soft landscaping.The rub is that it is a new unit so we had very few resources available and the folder for the old unit which was similar” has gone missing”.Luckily I am surrounded by human resources with great ideas that I can turn into something tangarine.

Thank you DBG staff, Brent McKenzie,David Howard,Nev Stewart, Leigh Blackall and …I am sure there will always be more.Anyway, I am wrapped with what I can present to the students on Monday and looking forward to constructive feedback.

My trip to visit my family was fantastic with lots of cool adventures and hiking adventures like this trip to Rainbow Falls.

Hort Talk 1 Aug 2008 – David Howard on Maintaining a Good Lawn

David Howard is from the New Zealand Sports Turf Institute and gave talk for the Otago Polytechnic and Dunedin Botannic Garden’s free lunch time seminar series: HortTalk