Native Plant Sale - Help Support Local Restoration Projects
PLANT SALE: Hastings Havelock North Forest and Bird Branch Nursery
Orders are being taken now for plants to be collected from the Havelock North Scout carpark, at 24 Napier Road on Saturday 2 April between 10.30 and 12.30. Plants cost $5 each
They are in PB2’s and are well grown and healthy ready to be planted now.
Email orders to: HastingsHavelockNorth.Branch@forestandbird.org.nz Or phone or message Debbie on 0274 176 259
Available Plants
ake ake green
ake ake red
cabbage trees
carex virgata
Coprosma grandifolia
Coprosma tenufolium
dianella nigra
harakeke (phormium tenax)
hoheria (lacebark)
kanuka
karamu (corprosma robusta)
karo
kawakawa
kowhai
lemonwood (pittosporum eugenoides)
mahoe
manuka
ngaio
Phormium cookianum
pingao
Pittosporum tenufolium
Pohutakawa Vibrance
poroporo
Pseudopanax (5 finger mixed)
puriri
putaputaweta
rewarewa (NZ honeysuckle tree)
ribbonwood (Plagianthus regius)
sedge
taupata (coprosma repens)
titoki
Toe toe
totara
tree fushcia
wharangi (melicope ternata)
wineberry
Poll: Is dumping an issue in your neighbourhood?
There's nothing worse than strolling around the streets in your neighbourhood and seeing dumped rubbish.
Have you noticed this in your area? What could we do to combat this around the country?
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43.6% Yes, I've seen some illegal dumping
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55.8% No, our neighbourhood is pretty good
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0.6% Other - I'll share below
Can you crack Today’s neighbourhood conundrum?
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New World Havelock North car park
Sitting in my work van, in the new New World carpark and I’ve been getting dirty looks. I get it. My van is halfway into the driving area. Literally. If you look, even from a distance, you’ll see my back end is almost hard against the fence, with my towball around the corner of the fence.
My work van is over 6m long and the car parks are only about 4.5m. The only spaces I can park out of the way are the nearest and the furthest corners from the door. And that still means parking across another carpark. Today, both those parks were taken.
Now, before you point out that I shouldn’t bring such a big vehicle to the supermarket, 1) why not? Everyone needs to shop; and 2) I drive a retirement village resident passenger van. And they have as much right to shop as anyone.
Okay, so park in the mobility parks. Nope. I don’t have a Mobility decal or placard. And, those parks are the same length as all the others.
So, if you want to get me to stop blocking the way, do the supermarket survey on your receipts and ask for one way driving around the carpark (clockwise is the most logical and safest) and oversized parks. Almost every other supermarket has them. Vehicles are getting bigger, parks aren’t.