By Michele Leggott, with research support from Catherine Field-Dodgson I wasn’t dreaming. There really is a sign on the road north of Mokau and it says ‘Tainui Trees.’ We back up the car and Mark crosses the road where the sign is pointing. There he finds a signboard for Tainui Scenic Reserve, topped by a Read More…
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Antarctic Flowers 1906 at Puke Ariki
By Michele Leggott and Catherine Field-Dodgson, with research support from Runa Bhakta and Libby Baker Four tall spikes of ligusticum reach from the bottom of a rectangular panel towards the top of Emily Harris’s painting. The two largest have flower heads that resemble a carrot in flower, but with pink rather than white umbels and Read More…
Three celmisias and a white gentian: Emily Harris at the British Museum
By Michele Leggott and Catherine Field-Dodgson The reporter from the Nelson Evening Mail is more than usually enthusiastic about the work on show at Emily Harris’s studio in Nile St East. Under the heading ‘Some Exquisite Paintings’ the range and ambition of Emily’s latest project is described in detail: Miss Harris has undoubted talent in Read More…
Thomas Kirk at Te Papa: the Campbell Island flora
By Michele Leggott and Catherine Field-Dodgson 14 January 1890 The Colonial Government Steamship Hinemoa reaches Campbell Island with botanists Thomas Kirk and Frederick Chapman on board. The steamer has visited the Snares and the Auckland Islands, travelling ever further south into the brief sub-antarctic summer since leaving Bluff 8 January on her periodic tour of Read More…