I have always been interested in plants and even had a favourite moss patch in an alley near my childhood home. Moving to Otago, New Zeland to study I spent my free time at Woodhaugh Gardens hunting for whatever plants I could find. I was gifted a hand lens and suddenly became a terrible person…
by Patricia Selkirk, Chris Cargill & Pina Milne Alison Downing grew up amongst nurserymen and orchardists on her mother’s side of the family and bushwalkers and environmentalists on her father’s side. She trained in horticulture and was the first woman to be employed by the Forestry Commission of New South Wales as a nurseryman. She…
I’m a third year student at Otago studying Botany and Marine Science. I was born and raised in ?tautahi and have spent a lot of time in Banks Peninsula, and now due to my studies, in Dunedin. I stumbled upon a focus in bryophytes on my first botany field trip when John mentioned the extra bryophyte and…
I was born Jessica Spragg in Hamilton, New Zealand, and have New Zealand M?ori ancestry (Ng?ti Toa, Te Ati Awa and Ng?ti Mutunga iwi) on my mother’s side, as well as English and Scottish forebears who emigrated several generations ago to seek life in a new land. My earliest memories of the natural world include…