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Take a leaf out of this book and Go NativePublished by the Communications and Development Department
8 December 2004
The editors of Going Native hope their book will fill a gap in the market and a gap on the bookshelves of all New Zealanders.
Going Native, co-edited by UC alumni David Given and Ian Spellerberg, is published by Canterbury University Press in collaboration with the Isaac Centre for Nature Conservation.
Dr Given, curator at Christchurch Botanic Gardens, says the book illustrates a fresh approach to the topic of native plants of New Zealand.
“Before now most books were descriptive, on how to identify native plants, or were horticultural or about forest plants. This book is very much a hands-on one that outlines new opportunities and ideas about using native plants in a wide context."
With contributions from gardening experts to moving accounts from children this is a book for all New Zealanders. It illustrates which New Zealand native plants are frost tender, which prefer coastal sites, or which are tall growing species. It explains cultivating methods as well as horticultural care – everything that is needed in creating and nurturing a native landscape.
“Going Native is about the 2400 native plants, 80 per cent of them found nowhere else, that make up the extraordinary flora of New Zealand,” says Dr Given.
“It introduces the concept of the immense value of native plants – for example ones that can be used in a pharmaceutical sense or attract birds to your garden. We want people to look at an alternative and use native plants when they may not have done in the past.”
Going Native will be officially launched at the Canterbury Horticultural Society rooms on Riccarton Ave on Thursday 9 December at 6pm.
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