WHAT IS IT ABOUT TREES?
They seem to be about as divisive as the current coalition government’s views on Te Tiriti. As with most things these days, we are all on a spectrum, and our attitude to these gentle, mute behemoths is no exception. At one end lie those who hug and imbue them with supernatural forces, at the other, the dark forces of those who sneak out in the dead of night to mutilate wayward limbs to restore previously obscured views.
We had three Norfolk Pines up north, planted along with a ragtag collection of plants left over from a neighbour’s landscape contract in my first year at architecture school. The goal was to stabilise a slip-prone hillside. I would like to
