10 January 2020
The Rata at the Timaru Botanic Gardens is flowering. This beautiful tree used to be in the hospital car park, it was moved when they made alterations. Even though it was only shifted meters from the car park to the botanic gardens boundary, it was bundled up on a truck and driven through the gates, down the drive to the other side of the fence.
I've seen a photo of the tree in it's original position, but I can't find it on Google to share with you.