Frances Jill Studd: A Spring Garden in New Zealand

Monday 24 October 2016

Here is a new watercolour and collage work to celebrate Spring, our garden

is full of blackbirds this year and I have spotted two nests. Although they

are not native to New Zealand we love having them around - they clear out

so many slugs from our seedlings. We have also had a bumper year with tui

feeding on nectar from our Kowhai trees.

Here is a photo of my first rose, it grew from a cutting from the Coromandel.

I believe that it is one of the first varieties to be grown in New Zealand and was

probably brought here by settlers in the nineteeth century. It flowers early

and prolifically and has a lovely perfume.

Frances Jill Studd