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I'll really be in big trouble here as I have a different memory of this place. Beforehand I'd better say that Bill's pics show something infinitely better than when I visited it, with the NZ Iris Soc convention, in 2000. At that time various parts of the area had been allotted to a selection of Tauranga's hort groups and under the pine trees they had planted annuals, assorted dwarf phloxes, dianthus, and heaps of other totally inappropriate plants, even roses, which looked, frankly, ghastly. At the time I did take some pics of the tree ferns and these, in Bill's pics, seem larger and stronger than I remember them so 9 years of growth have helped. I can only hope the plantings are better now, too. I remember thinking that I would never want to go near the place again.