Fern - Color Note: Green and Brown

For awhile I had a New Zealand Tea Tree (Leptospermum scoparium) growing in a large pot in my back yard. Several varieties of this species can be found in the nursery trade. This dark red variety is my favorite, and it is quite popular in California. Later on, when I visited New Zealand, I was able to actually walk through a forest of wild tea trees, which the New Zealanders call "manuka" trees. But all of them, even the ones in cultivation, had white or pale pink flowers.

Flax flower: I feel your kindness.

Native Flowers of New Zealand (1888) by Georgina Burne Hetley

The South Island Kowhai is just one of eight varieties of the native tree - NZ

Photo of a silver fern in New Zealand.

Koru, New Zealand Mehr

Silver fern - New Zealand icon

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