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RODNEY'S

DECEMBER 2011

Cover Story: Jools Topp, horsewoman pg 3 Horsinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; around with horse vans pg 8 Landscaping: Flower power pg 11 Animal theatrics pg 14 Wetland restoration on a shoestring pg 15

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We’ve had some excellent feedback in response to our call for the best stories you could recall reading in RRL. If you’re reading this before 15 Dec there’s still time to send us your emails (Neville@ rurallifestyle.co.nz) to enter the draw for one of 6 prizes of what I rate to be one of the best Pinot Gris or Pinot Noirs in the country. I’ll reveal the results on our website on Dec 16 and in the next issue. Thanks to all for your emails. It’s pretty clear many of you have good ideas we should also pass on, so we plan to run a reader feedback page from time to time. The main reason I started the magazine was as a vehicle for exchanging information and ideas among lifestylers, farmers and the wider rural community we live in, and now we’d like to publish your tips on what has and hasn’t worked for you on your block. On that note, we need you to complete

our quick 5 minute survey on how well we’re meeting your need for ideas, information and inspiration. It’s a challenging market out there and your feedback will help give advertisers (and potential advertisers) confidence that they are making the right decision by placing their business with us. For your efforts, every one of you who returns the survey (by post or online at www.rurallifestyle.co.nz) by December 21 will be in the draw and one lucky reader will win a fabulous Apple iPod touch with a retail value of $289! I’m really chuffed to feature Helen’s interview with one of our national icons, Jools Topp. Our whole family are huge fans, especially our 6 year old daughter Brianna, who’s been mesmerized since the age of 4 with Jools’s Camp Leader and Lynda’s Camp Mother characters. Aside from brilliant artists, I really think Jools and her twin sister Lynda have helped us look at ourselves as a culture and think about what makes New Zealand a better, richer place to live. We thought Christmas would be a good time to catch up on the latest with Helen’s

menagerie – we have no doubt many of you will identify with the antics she describes in Animal Theatrics. This issue is definitely a keeper!

Neville Walker – Editor & Publisher Visit rurallifestyle.co.nz for a FREE subscription Letters or enquiries to Rodney’s Rural Lifestyle, RD Marketing Ltd, RD1, Kaukapakapa. Phone 09 947 3580. Email: neville@rurallifestyle.co.nz Advertising enquiries: Marlene Brown 021-854-946 Rodney’s Rural Lifestyle ©2011. All rights reserved. Reproduction in any form without permission of the publisher is prohibited. No responsibility accepted for any direct or indirect consequences arising from reliance on any content within Rodney’s Rural Lifestyle. Editor: Neville Walker. Sub Editor: Helen Martin. Writers this issue: Helen Martin, Grant McKechnie, Neville Walker. Cover photo: Helen Martin. Designer: Dan Stenhouse, Bgraphix. Printing: PMP maxim.

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dairy farm in Ruawaro, Huntly and they’ve been around horses all their lives - as little girls they made play horses out of ti tree (manuka) before their parents provided them with the real thing. The Topps have performed on stages around the world, but count singing and helping out at A and P shows among their favourite gigs.

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where rider and horse are completely in tune with each other. And while Jools’s “best mate” Intrigue is just in his second year of the seven years’ training it takes to become ‘a bridle horse’, the lovely grey Arab is already doing Jools proud, helping her win Western Riding’s Rookie of the Year in 2010. “There are no shortcuts, so when you take on learning this style of riding you have to be in it for the long haul,” says Jools, “ but once you’ve ridden on a soft horse, where the only thing a horse has to go on is the feel of the rider, you’ll never want to ride any other way. And you always have to remember that you can get the horse to make you look good but that’s not a true partnership. The magic comes from the horse and to ride a horse is not a right, it’s a privilege.” In a very moving sequence in the multi-award-winning documentary The Topp Twins: Untouchable Girls (2009), Lynda talks about how Jools’s horses “stand around and blow on her head” while she is undergoing chemotherapy for breast cancer, and Jools adds, in that way they have of finishing each other’s sentences, ”I can feel them healing me.” Working with horses helps her performance, she believes, because you work them as you work with audiences, by letting them come with you. Jools loves the high profile, singing and entertaining part of her career, but when she’s away on a gig she can’t wait to get back to Helensville. “I feel really lucky. I always wanted a place I could share and pass on some knowledge about horses. In this place I can wake up and have dreamt a whole new song. Living with a tolerant partner on this beautiful property my dreams have come true.”

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In the September issue, Sandy Reid discussed factors to consider when buying a horse float. At the time we said we would cover trucks in a future issue, but in the meantime we have found an interesting alternative that is relatively new to New Zealand, horse vans, which in the short time they have been in the country are proving to fill a need. Larissa Mortimer of Horse Vans NZ Ltd, based in Matakana, imports these vans from Europe commercially and now sells the vans from both Matakana and a central North Island location. After just 18 months she can only just keep up with demand and is selling them all over the country. Appreciating that not everyone has the need for outright purchase, Larissa is now also able to rent out or finance/lease the horse vans as a convenient alternative. When I ask Larissa how her involvement in the vans came about she explains that she’d had a horse that travelled badly in a float. “It used to scramble up the sides, and then it would half fall down and pop up again.” Larissa spotted the vans in magazines her mother-in-law bought back from the UK in early 2009. The rear-facing orientation inside complements the horse’s natural physiology. For example, when the vehicle is braking it is easier for a horse to be facing the rear because it will lean back into its hocks where all the strength is, instead of being thrown forward. “With its head and shoulders at the back it can use its head to counterbalance and lean through corners with the shoulders,” Larissa says. She also saw that a van would solve the whole

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hooking up, towing and reversing issue that floats present. Larissa researched the idea for a further year before deciding to set up Horse Vans NZ Ltd to cater to horse owners who had similar needs. The coachbuilder she works with in the UK was the first to develop and build these horse vans some years ago. As a result of many years of trial and error, he uses materials with the strength and robustness to be able to carry heavy payloads across many miles of less-thanforgiving roads. While horses have been known to kick through the sides of other horse vans, it has never happened to any of this coach builder’s vans.

transport horses and equestrian products, enabling the vans to double as trade stands. The vans drive very well laden or empty and are economical at 8L of diesel per 100km. Because drivers don’t need a heavy transport licence, anyone can jump in and operate the vehicle as needed. The purchase options are $52,400+GST for the smaller size and $65,700+GST for the medium. Just released is a larger version designed originally for the Australian market and manufactured

The side entry to the van is up a short ramp and is easy to lift and lower. Partitions in the centre are high, giving support and confidence to the horse. Internal LED lighting works well, with very little drain on battery power when the vehicle is not running and with cameras on the horse area and reversing cameras at the back of the van, it’s easy to know what’s going on at any stage of the journey. In addition, sliding viewing windows from the cab to the back make it easy to chat to the horse, helping keep a nervous horse calm. Larissa does all the drawing up and speccing and each van can be customised to the buyer’s wish list. This includes those equine businesses that need to

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Flower

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Melia azedarach.

The purple-tinged leaf of the Chinese tulip tree.

At this time of year, nature seems to be in the grip of flower power. Everywhere we look, there are trees and shrubs that have just finished their spring flowering, or are now in full bloom, or are just about to start. Flowers give us beauty and colour, plus food for the birds and bees, and they also herald – hopefully anyway – long fine days, barbecues, Christmas, holidays and all things nice. There are not too many drawbacks with flowers, but some people won’t have prolific flowering plants because they don’t like the petals falling on the ground. I always think gardens are very personal places and should be what the home-owner wants them to be, so personal choice is important, but it still surprises me that

petals should get a plant banished from the garden. Mostly by men, I’d have to say. Part of the enjoyment of flowering plants, for me, is petal fall and the carpet it forms on the ground. So from that point of view, the messier the better, as far as I’m concerned. Some of the best at making a mess are the sasanqua camellias, which have masses of flowers in autumn. They come in white, pink or red varieties, make excellent hedges and are great additions to a mixed border. The sasanquas are hardy to strong winds and will grow in sun or shade. For flowering trees which make virtually

no mess at all, yet still manage to look special, horse chestnuts are hard to beat. They have big upright clusters of flowers that look a bit like a candelabra, around 20cm high. Aesculus hippocastanum is the white-flowered version, and Aesculus x carnea is a pink-flowered variety. Both flower in spring, the white first and the pink starting about a week later. Use them as a shade tree in the middle of the lawn or paddock, or for lining your drive. They’re deciduous and not particularly fast growers, but ultimately big trees. Have a look at the magnificent specimens in Cambridge next time you’re passing through.

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NZ’s pohutukawa flower signals summer.

tulip tree and Chinese tulip tree respectively) both have interesting tulip-shaped greenish-yellow summer flowers. The leaves themselves are also interesting: they’re big and look as if they’ve been cut almost square with a pair of scissors. Liriodendron chinense’s new leaves are tinted purple; both have good yellow autumn colour. Liriodendron flowers sit on top of the leaves, a bit like those of Albizzia julibrissin rosea, the silk tree. Deciduous, with fern-like leaves, albizzia forms an excellent umbrella-shaped shade tree, with masses of fluffy pink flowers across the crown in summer. It’s regarded as one of the showiest of trees, especially when viewed from above. Back at the beginning of this article, I was rambling on about barbecues and hot summer days. What could be more synonymous with a New Zealand summer than the bright red pohutukawa flower? Everyone knows the pohutukawa (Metrosideros excelsa), but I always feel it is a bit underused in domestic landscapes, even though it is common enough in public landscaping. It is such a tough plant, surviving extremely poor soils, dryness and the very worst of winds. If you need a specimen for a bleak spot, pohutukawa could be the answer. It’s quite happy in good conditions too, but a little frost tender when young. It is easy to keep trimmed and makes great hedges. Birds and bees love the pohutukawa nectar and an old Maori remedy prescribes its use for sore throats. Not all pohutukawa have red flowers; there is a yellow-flowered variety discovered on Motiti Island in the 1940s.

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emerging here?), a much-loved hen. I won’t describe all the twists and turns in the ‘destroy Barry saga’, suffice to say she now lives separately in our hen nursery and her wounds are healing.

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In my last chook report (Issue 33) I described how Zeus, our big, handsome rooster, liked to fly at us full frontal in the hopes of drawing blood. We always left the house with a large stick but still, at times Zeus scored. We have the scars. Our city friends, who have never owned a single chook, advised us through thin lips to learn about breeds. Looking up “Plymouth Barred Rock’ we read that “in terms of temperament, both roosters and hens are calm and will get along well with people and other animals such as pets”. Yeah, right! Zeus lost his mojo when a virus made him incurably lame and weak, and so it was that his days, and his reign of terror, ended courtesy of a very nice vet. (We couldn’t do him in. After a mere 6 years in the country we’re still in the early stages of hardening up). He’s in our Pet Sematary now and he’s very quiet. When Zeus’s sons were chickens they were calm. Was Wikipedia was right, we wondered, was their father’s aberrant behaviour prompted by personal issues? We’d bought him off Trade Me and who knows what sort of childhood he’d had? With Zeus gone and the hormones raging, Zeus Two (looking just like his dad, only smaller) and crazy-looking Sheldon (his mother’s a Frizzle and the genes went wild) bided their time, concentrating on perfecting the finer points of crowing, wing flapping and, of course, mating experimentally with our nine hens. And then, pardon the inevitable pun, they started to show their stripes. The short version of what came next is that Zeus Two and Sheldon took it upon themselves not to terrorise us, but to destroy Barry, another Plymouth Barred Rock from Trade Me (is there a pattern

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Life became peaceful when we banished Zeus Two to a feral life in our neighbour’s bush. He made his way home two weeks later and for an afternoon our place was the scene of a bloody pitched battle, brother against brother, as he and Sheldon duked it out for top flock spot, while Keith and I chased the fighting roosters from one end of the garden to the other. Finally, we hatched a cunning plan and cornered him. Having arranged his immediate dispatch via our obliging neighbours we were instead delighted with an unexpected happy ending when they found him a new home. But will he make it back from Taupaki? Since we moved to the country we go to the theatre less often, but who needs it when there’s theatre-in-the round 24/7 at home? The chooks are not the only characters on this 5-acre stage. There are always cat dramas, like the Roger saga. A beautiful but cunning feral cat, Roger moved in for a while but our resident cats, tired of being beaten up, took off. We had to carry big, bold Boswell in from his hiding place in the bush, and take him into every room to show him Roger-the-lodger had vanished, before he deigned to move back in. For a change in tone dog dramas, as any dog owner knows, are mostly in the comic genre and Molly’s antics provide us with endless entertainment. It’s difficult to categorise the guinea pig narrative, but I’m thinking ‘tragi-comedy’. Here’s the outline:

Act One Set up: we foster two female SPCA guinea pigs, who arrive with instructions they are to live inside ‘to be socialised’ (!) Fatal plot mistake 1: we name them. Fatal plot mistake 2: we buy a cage off Trade Me and move Google and Yahoo outside. Fatal plot mistake 3: we stop talking about “when they go back to the SPCA”. Fatal plot mistake 4: we prevaricate when visiting friends ask when we’ll be “getting rid of them.” Inciting incident/catalyst: Yahoo gives birth to 3 babies in rude good health.

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Yahoo consoles Allan after his cat encounter.

in a small cage beside his growing family, Google can look, but he can’t touch. We daily ransack the garden for the tonnage of silverbeet and puha required to feed Yahoo, Google, Edgar, Allan and Poe. (Fatal plot mistake 5: we name the babies). The babies grow. They learn to dig. Climax: Allan escapes. Beryl catches him and takes off under the house. Molly, Mr Blue and Boswell join in the chase. Keith, risking death in the narrow space under the house, wrests Allan from Beryl’s jaws. Edgar and Poe escape. In the half hour it takes to catch them the dinner is ruined.

Act Three Mother and babies are transferred to the small cage, which has a floor. In the large cage Google dreams of reunion. Dénouement: the sun is setting. Inside the house cower an arthritic dog, three clapped out cats and Keith and I, broken, frail, incontinent, too frightened to open the door. Outside, a hideous cacophony of crows and shrieks rends the air as a thousand rampaging roosters and their huge hen harem scratch desperately in the dirt for food. About their feet swarms a plague of multi-coloured guinea pigs, some old, some young, many heavily pregnant, and all of them have names.

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We’ve been planning to restore our wetland area for some time. Our problem has been that, in common with other landowners we talk to, we’ve found contemplating the whole process quite daunting, with questions about where to start, how to get the job done without committing huge wodges of cash to it and how to make sure it doesn’t drift on forever. But I’m happy to say I’ve finally found the inspiration to start and through these pages I’m going to describe step-by-step how to get the job done on minimal (or no) budget.

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many years ago during our property’s farmland phase or early subdivision someone thought the idea of planting these trees to soak up the dampness would be a good idea to grab more surrounding pasture for grazing. The first step for me is to knock back the weeds, as they are preventing any true wetland plant species growing there now from flourishing. (I suspect that flax is the only plant in that category.) On first inspection I can’t see much over the willow weed. I don’t want to be up to my knees in swamp ripping out weed by hand, so spraying is the answer. What can I spray around wetland areas and waterways that won’t harm aquatic life?

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