MORE ABOUT MAORI LUNAR CALENDAR AND STARS.

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 From a  21st century scientific viewpoint.

I subscribe to The Conversation (among other newspapers) and noted that a team looking closely (nervously?) at changes to Antarctic ice are also looking at a Maori lunar calendar, known in Maori as maramataka. Here's a link. It may ask if you want to read this;I suggest you do. 

https://theconversation.com/we-travelled-to-antarctica-to-see-if-a-maori-lunar-calendar-might-help-track-environmental-change-239583

I did have a little chuckle to note that the Eskimos have it in spades for words for snow!

Now...one or two people have wondered if I've slipped the blogging leash. Not entirely, but while I may not have screeds to write about, I do have a few snap shots. 

Despite battling rough winds I did manage to get some shots of the Magnolia on the front lawn. No idea if it's a named variety, but here we go...just look at all those buds!







It's also been a pretty good time for lettuce, especially one called

"Drunken Woman" which seems a tad chauvanistic! 






I'll leave you with a yellow Banksia rose whose roots are the other side of the back fence, but, true to form, Ms.Banksia is flinging herself about. So I've taken some cuttings!(She has a white sister, but I guess I'll need to go looking at a nursery for her.)


Well, that's it for now. Way past lunchtime so I'll do something clever with some pasta and tomatoes...


Comments

  1. Ms ScarletJuly 16, 2025 at 11:20 PM

    I wish I had a rose delivered by my neighbours, but all I have for free is brambles, nettles, and bind weed. I suppose I could make some sort of tea from it?
    Sx

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  2. JonJuly 17, 2025 at 12:52 AM

    I love Magnolias - we used to make a "pilgrimage" to Kew Gardens every April, just to bask in the glory of those massive, blowsy blooms!

    As for the rose, it's difficult to see it properly - but as you know, I managed to successfully grow a rambler "Veilchenblau" from a cutting taken from a branch overhanging a fence opposite where I used to work. It's now the star of our garden every June - see here! Jx

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    1. dinahmowJuly 17, 2025 at 12:18 PM

      Oh, Jon! You'd love some of the magnolias around here! Most of them are huge and very lichen-y so must be a fair age. As for that rose...before we moved to the Tropics, I had quite a few old-fashioned roses, including Veilchenblau, last seen scrambling up the "chookenarium"

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