Brooke's Blooms

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Fresh little harvest of silverbeet and lettuce! Kings Seeds Tui Garden & Home
07/09/2026

Fresh little harvest of silverbeet and lettuce!
Kings Seeds Tui Garden & Home

07/09/2026

Seen through time: Karangahake Gorge 🌿🚲

A few days ago, we shared a wonderful early photograph of a woman with her camera in the rugged Karangahake Gorge. Today, we're looking at the Gorge from a rather different perspective - from behind the wheel.

For generations, Karangahake was a formidable barrier between the goldfields and the communities beyond. Getting people, supplies and mining equipment through the Gorge was no easy business.

From 1889, an eight-year project blasted a road through the solid rock, creating a level route where previously there had been a steep, often impassable road. Even then, the new road was narrow enough for only one-way traffic.

Then, during the Depression of the 1930s, relief workers returned to the Gorge to widen and seal the road. This photograph captures that work in progress, a little car making its way through a landscape that was still very much being shaped by human hands.

Today, the same dramatic walls and river still frame the Hauraki Rail Trail as it winds through Karangahake Gorge. The journey is considerably easier these days, but the sense of passing through somewhere hard-won remains.

Look closely at the photograph. The road, the rock face, the tiny car, and the enormous landscape around it. It's a wonderful reminder that the route we enjoy today has quite a story beneath our wheels.

Photo: Historical photograph, 1930s, Karangahake Gorge
https://www.haurakirailtrail.co.nz/

Down at Addictionsgiftshops te aroha 🙂 $45 one sold $10 & $40 left
07/09/2026

Down at Addictionsgiftshops te aroha 🙂
$45 one sold
$10 & $40 left

Such long stems!!!! 💛
06/09/2026

Such long stems!!!!
💛

Some more opening
06/09/2026

Some more opening

Fresh bunches available ✨️ $30Pm for details these will be at in te aroha tomorrow ♡
04/09/2026

Fresh bunches available ✨️
$30
Pm for details these will be at in te aroha tomorrow ♡

04/09/2026

Potting up some dahlia seedlings I harvested from my dahlias

$30 fresh bunch available today, they smell soo nice Te aroha or can deliver
03/09/2026

$30 fresh bunch available today, they smell soo nice

Te aroha or can deliver

I love this soft white with pink tips .She is so gorgeous!!! 😍 🍃🌻🍃
02/09/2026


I love this soft white with pink tips .
She is so gorgeous!!! 😍
🍃🌻🍃

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