December 2011 in the Southern Hemisphere

[Lesley Cox]

Last time I was into Ak airport from the city there were plantings of "wild" flowers all along the route wherever there otherwise would have been grass. They looked fantastic. Don't know what it's like now though. There were things like Salpiglossis, various peas, poppies, annual cosmos,  cornflowers, calendulas and a heap of other stuff.

[Anthony Darby]

Curiously, the central reservations along the Great South Road in Manukau City have a sort of corn field mix with corn flowers, marigolds and Californian poppies, inter alia, growing there.