New Zealand Flora

On March 4, '99 Moira wrote:

"There are two characteristics of the NZ flora which tend to make
all-native gardens distinctive, one is the paucity of herbaceous plants,
including bulbs, and the preponderence among them of white flowers, and
the other is that virtually all trees and shrubs are evergreen."

Moira (and others),

I found this an interesting observaton and wonder if anyone knows (or has an
educated guess) why these characteristics exist in the NZ flora.

Deborah Lindsay
Oakland, California
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