Euryops chrysanthemoides is an attractive, easy-to-grow, evergreen flowering shrub with dense, bright green foliage and golden yellow daisy flowers.

Description
A compact, densely branched, leafy, evergreen shrub, 0.5 to 2 m in height. The leaves are attractive, shaped rather like an oak leaf, with 7 to 9 deeply indented lobes and they are close-set, particularly on young growth.

The flowers are yellow daisies, 30-40 mm across with 15-30 bright yellow ray-florets and deep golden yellow disc-florets. They are carried well above the leaves on thin, wiry stalks 100-150 mm long. Peak flowering is in Autumn-Winter-Spring (March to September) but flowers are usually found on the bush throughout the year.

These plants were donated to us from one of our neighbours.

Autumn 2012(April) the official rubbish tip (formally known as the communal rubbish depository) is all gone!  After our neighbours and their friends helped themselves to the free logs ~ odds & ends ~ bits & pieces ~ this & that. 

This dirt mound will soon be home to a hedge.  The project was started in December 2011 – due to our financial situation, we were not able to have Landscape Architect Charlotte Hawken of Espaso Verde transform our 1.3150 hectares (3.25 acres).  I was equiped with only a bucket and shovel – the dirt (located by the two mist green water tanks) had to be hand delivered uphill and carefully put in place.  The top photograph was taken in January 2012, the bottom was taken April 2012.

January 2012 gale force winds pummeled Tūtira. There were casualties……an Oak and fruit tree located in the orchard.

2012 began with a mishap.  A borrowed chainsaw from our neighbour to begin removal of Lucerne trees located at the entrance to our property. 

The offending log…

The poked eye…

Discussed at the September 2011 meeting of the Tūtira Maungahururu Visionary Group – provided by the Hawke’s Bay Regional Council - distributed by the Guthrie-Smith Arboretum and Outdoor Education Centre - placed in the windbreak behind our home.

Stoats were introduced into New Zealand to control rabbits and hares but are now a major threat to the native bird population. Immediately prior to human settlement New Zealand did not have any land based mammals apart from bats, but both Māori and European settlers introducing a wide variety of animals.

Warnings about the dangers to bird life from stoats were given by scientists in New Zealand and Britain.  The warnings were ignored and stoats began to be introduced from Britain in the 1880s, then, within six years drastic declines in bird populations were noticed.

Saturday, September 24^th 2011 Matthew, Xander and I along with our neighbours Hans & Jan Weichbrodt all had our first experience with a controlled burning of what we believed to be Prunus Armeniaca (8-12 metre apricot tree hedge) cuttings. We were informed the plant is either Prunus Salicina or Prunus Mume more commonly known as Japanese Plum on our 1.3150 hectares (3.25 acres).

Let sleeping dogs lie.

If you've never been thrilled to the very edges of your soul by a flower in spring bloom, maybe your soul has never been in bloom ~Terri Guillemets

Roaming our 1.3150 hectares (3.25 acres) two Ewes with twins August 2011.