Fwd: Treecrop Hawke's Bay Notice = Annual Tree Sale 10am Sunday 26 June
Louise Phillips
From: Jenny Horne <jenny...@outlook.com>
Date: Fri, Jun 17, 2022 at 9:34 AM
Subject: Treecrop Hawke's Bay Notice = Annual Tree Sale 10am Sunday 26 June
To: TC HBay Chair Bruce Staples <br...@staples-moon.com>
NEW ZEALAND TREE CROP ASSOCIATION
Notice
Hawke's Bay Branch June 2022
Sunday 26th June - Annual Tree Sale @ PakiPaki
Sunday July 17th – Winter swap meeting @ Raukawa hall
Sometime in August or September – Sheryn Dean Workshop in the western hills
Sunday 26th June 10am -12noon THE Annual Tree Sale
Hawke’s Bay Treecrop’s propagated trees;
including tree for bees, food, colour, flowers, shelter, shade and more.
100 Turamoe Road, Pakipaki (south side of Hastings)
Various committee and experienced growers will be on hand to help you select and purchase trees suitable for your purpose and conditions. In one winter morning you get to buy some useful trees, have your gnarly tree questions discussed, and get advice on how to give our trees the best chance to thrive at your place.
Buy trees for winter planting – the annual opportunity to buy rare and special trees at sensible prices - trees seldom (or never) available in commercial nurseries. Some varieties are one-offs, others we have ample stock. The list will include heritage apple trees, blackcurrants, chestnuts, cork oaks and many more varieties for food, fodder, shade, flowers, bees, and autumn foliage colour.
Tree List with individual Information attached.
There will be no prior reservations or orders, we want to keep it simple.
For further tree information e-mail Bruce Staples @ or telephone Chris Ryan 06 8776651
Grafted trees $20 / Cutting grown and all other trees $15.
Payment Treecrops Hawke’s Bay Treasurer Anne Redgrave will be dealing with your
Cash Sales on the day Or Cash or Bank Transfer done by telephone.
A dampener = The trees will have soggy bottoms, if your picky about your immaculate car, be prepared.
Wet or fine event. No dogs please, but all humans Welcome. Lavatory available on request.
Covid protocols Please wear a mask for close contact, and please stay away if you are unwell.
Sudden Cancellation.....
In case of a last minute cancellation members will be alerted via email on the morning of the sale.
TRAVEL DIRECTIONS…… Google Maps will lead you astray, it will send you down a dead-end branch of Turamoe Road.
Head down Turamoe Road until you come to a sharp left-hand turn - turn this corner and continue straight until you see our driveway & Treecrops events sign on the right – about half a kilometre along.
From Napier, get onto the Expressway and keep going south until you have been through the four large roundabouts at the Hastings end . After the fourth roundabout, Turamoe Road is the second road on the right. If you pass Pakipaki School, you’ve gone too far.
From Havelock, head down Te Aute Road to the new(ish) Pakipaki roundabout. Take the second exit, pass Pakipaki School and Turamoe Road is first on the left after the school.
From Hastings, head out to Pakipaki on either Railway Road or Maraekakaho Road and find Turamoe Road on the Hastings side of Pakipaki School. Lost people can text or telephone Clare 021 986396
Vehicle Parking None on the roadside. Park on the outer edge of the gravel turning area, or down the driveway wherever you can find a solid ground spot to park between trees.
17th July 10am start – Treecropper’s Tools & Seeds Swap Meeting
Raukawa Community Hall. Useful details nearer the time.....
We will swap our Treecrop-related stuff.....
Have a clear out of in the shed, on the porch, in the seed box, at the back door, in the garage -
consider it highly likely that one Treecroppers junk could be another Treecroppers treasure........
Annual TREE SALE List - JUNE 26th 2022
10:00am -12noon 100 Turamoe Road, Pakipaki
Grafted trees $20 / Cutting grown and all other trees $15.
There will be no prior reservations or orders, we want to keep it simple.
For further tree information e-mail Bruce Staples @ or telephone Chris Ryan 06 8776651
|
Name |
Number |
Description |
|
Apple Bramley |
15 |
Superior cooking apple, heavy and regular bearer, tree is long-lived |
|
Apple Oratia Beauty |
8 |
Red New Zealand selection of Gravenstein - one of the world’s most esteemed old apples. Best left on the tree to mature, develops a wonderful crisp, juicy, tart flavour. Great for using for apple sauce and in baking. This large, round to slightly flattened fruit ripens early in the apple season. The tree blooms early and is very vigorous. Tip bearing. |
|
Apple Liberty |
16 |
Crisp medium sized eating apple, red blush, mid-season, disease resistant. |
|
Apple “Oh!” |
15 |
A member says: “The last word in apples.” |
|
Apple Kidd’s Orange |
9 |
Popular NZ apple variety, mid-season medium sized dessert apple. Medium to large, with orange/red skin. |
|
Apple Stockyard |
9 |
A local Hawkes Bay selection, mid-late season desert apple quite large green/red apples which cook well but are also nice to eat. A Tree Crops exclusive. |
|
Crabapple Profusion |
7 |
Rounded crown crab-apple. Purple tinged blossoms, and abundant bright red fruit. Great ornamental, also can be used for a fragrant jelly. |
|
Crabapple Arrow Gold |
6 |
Bunches of large, white-pink blossoms in mid-spring. An autumn profusion of large, clear-yellow crabapples a favourite of birds if left into winter. Fruit can be eaten straight off the tree, or made into a jelly. Upright growth or may be traned horizontal. Tolerates dry ground. |
|
Apple Matangi |
13 |
Another local selection, similar to Golden Delicious, but more tart. Desert and cooking variety. |
|
Apple Egremont Russet |
7 |
Heritage apple. Fruit has a thick and distinctive olive skin with sweet, nutty, firm flesh. The tree has an upright, compact habit so is suitable for container growing. Spur bearing mid-season. |
|
White Nectarine |
3 |
White fleshed cling-stone variety. |
|
Blackcurrant “Magnus” |
11 |
Main commercial variety in New Zealand. Shrub of multi-stemmed canes disease resistant, a reliable producer, Upright growth. Extremely hardy. Deciduous. Ripens December. Enjoys an acid soil. |
|
Blackcurrants - unknown variety |
12 |
Believed to be “Magnus”, but cannot be confirmed. |
|
Loquats |
26 |
A hardy sub-tropical handsome deep green foliage evergreen tree. Vigorous growth in full sun. Flowers a favourite for bees, fruit for birds and humans. Cream coloured fruit early in summer. |
|
Elderberry |
5 |
A traditional favourite. Strong growth, flowers for brewing, fruit for jam or syrup. |
|
Pomegranates |
11 |
Seedling plants. Burnt orange flowers become round brick-red fruit, always a welcome surprise. Deciduous, attractive foliage, Culinary use. |
|
Figs |
|
Plentiful stock of = Brunswick/Brunoro Black/Wharerangi/ - ‘Sultane’ = 2 only |
|
Plum Omega |
Numbers unknown |
A popular variety: Medium sized, red speckled skin and red juicy flesh. Free stone. Late season. Partially self-fertile. |
|
Plum Elephant Heart |
Numbers unknown |
A Japanese variety with large heart shaped freestone fruit dark red sweet & juicy flesh. Mid to late season. |
|
Cherry Plum |
7 |
Deciduous shrub or small tree, dark purple foliage, profuse flowers favoured by bees, edible fruit. |
|
Tangelo Seminole |
1 |
Tangelos are a citrus fruit hybrid of tangerine or mandarin and pomelo or grapefruit. |
|
Navel Orange |
1 |
Seedless, peel easily, great flavour |
|
Lemon Genoa |
1 |
The Genoa Lemon is an Italian lemon, popular for its cold hardiness, dense foliage and vigorous growth. Grows in a shrub-like form, wide rather than tall, making it easy to harvest the lemons. |
|
Japanese Sweet Chestnut, Castanea crenata |
7 |
10-15m tall, deciduous, sweet edible nuts. Smaller tree than Spanish chestnut, ample large nuts, not available commercially, autumn tawny yellow foliage, bees love them, dome shaped spreading canopy, good drainage and tolerant of dry conditions, tough tree |
|
Nothofagus solandri. Black Beech |
7 |
Evergreen slow growing New Zealand tree. Erect habit with attractive bronze foliage. |
|
Salyx tortuosa Curly willow |
4 |
Upright medium-sized open ornamental deciduous tree, wiggly branches popular for floral work. |
|
Camellia reticulata |
3 |
Evergreen winter pink flowering large shrub, deep green foliage, prefers acid soil. |
|
Schinus terebinthifolius Brazilian pepper tree. |
11 |
Widely grown as an ornamental plant in frost-free regions of South America for its foliage and fruit. It is considered as a melliferous flower and is a main source of food for some bee types. Although it is not a true pepper (Piper), its dried drupes are often sold as pink peppercorns The seeds can be used as a spice, adding a pepper-like taste to food - they are usually sold in a dry state and have a bright pink colour. |
|
Araucaria bidwillii |
12 |
Monkey puzzle tree - Evergreen, very prickly dark green foliage, grows into a very large commanding tree, edible seeds in enormous cones |
|
Kohlruteria bipinnata Goladen rain tree, Chinese flame tree, Varnish tree. |
7 |
Deciduous. Open spreading form, yellow summer flowers for bees, paper capsules like Chinese lanterns in autumn (pale green to pale red then brown). 6x5m @ 10 years. |
|
Syzygium perniculatum (Eugenia smithii). Lilypilly |
6 |
Evergreen. large purple- red fruits loved by birds, blossom loved by bees, upright compact tree. |
|
Catalpa speciosa |
17 |
Medium size tree, Deciduous, Elegant long flower panicles of 10-30. In US, wood is used for furniture and cabinetry. Long slender white & purple centred pendulous flowers in spring, ground- durable timber, mature medium size fast-growing tree, needs good soil |
|
Neolitsea serice |
|
A Chinese laurel, medium sized evergreen tree, Suits most soil type |
|
Tetradium Danielii “Bee Bee Tree “ |
8 |
Small to medium size tree. Late summer white scented flowers. Important bee tree. Deciduous. Creamy coloured mid-summer flowers, pungent glossy pinnate leaves on an open canopy, single trunk with irregular branching, small to medium size tree. |
|
Quercus coccinea |
5 |
“Scarlet Oak” Broadly conical tree with drooping branches, dark-red bark and dark-green foliage, turning a brilliant scarlet in autumn. Deciduous. Hardy. |
|
Quercus skutchii |
40 |
Evergreen Mexican Oak. |
|
Quercus rhizophylla Loquat Oak |
|
Fast-growing oak with wavy-edged foliage and a rough, crinkled appearance. New growth in spring is red-bronze. Prefers neutral to acidic soil. |
|
Vernicia fordii |
|
Easy, fast growing small to medium sized tree with large tropical looking foliage. The Tung Oil Tree produces clusters of showy white and lavender flowers that are followed by the large nut-like seeds that are valued for their oil content. |
|
Zanthoxylum Piperitum |
1 |
Both the leaves and fruits (peppercorns) are used as an aromatic and flavouring. It is closely related to the Chinese schezuan peppers. The aromatics are held in the outer shell of the seed. Plant in partial or full sun. Deciduous very spiny large shrub matures approx 2x2m. Well-drained soil in full sun, drought tolerant. |