Rongoa Garden

It was a special day today, because we planted out our Rongoa garden. We’ve been planning it for a while, and now was the right time to plant, so it was great to get stuck in.

If you don’t know what a Rongoa garden is, you can find out here.

Here we are planting the Kawakawa and saying a karakia.

It took a long time to get our azure hebe out of the pot, but when it finally came out we realised why. That brown stuff is all roots! It was a good opportunity for Whaea Clare to talk to us about roots, what they do and how they grow. The hebe finally made it into the ground, we’re sure it will be much happier in there than it was in the pot.

Some of these beautiful tiles were also laid out in the Rongoa garden.