Monarch Butterfly NZ Trust

These are the Minutes of the Annual General Meeting held January 2007. They will require approval at the AGM 2008.
Minutes of Annual General Meeting, January 2007

Today it is wet and windy in Russell, so I thought I’d collect a few eggs from milkweed around town - who knows, it may be the last for the “summer”.
On one plant I found these living things, so have used digital magnifier to take photos of them. Any ideas what they are?

Colourful nectar plants…

This huge caterpillar kindly accepted donations.

Gumboots and gardening gloves were our brochure holders.

Here you see the whole display, nearly finished.
We’ve replaced the screen with the embroidery, much admired, provided by Maureen Trotter.

Beverley and her friend Dorothy didn’t realise they’d be working so hard! We shifted and reorganised and shuffled those plants until we were absolutely happy with where they were. Beverley laid weedmat to make the floor even tidier. Sticky Business donated lots of adhesive flowers to add a spot of colour […]

The rainbow of nectar plants was in place. We kept repeating our rhyme for the rainbow (Richard Of York Gives Battle In Vain) (red - orange - yellow - green - blue - indigo - violet).
There were some lighthearted arguments about where in the spectrum colours like pink and mauve came, […]

Even at night it was looking exciting!
Vicky Steele had created an awesome PowerPoint presentation, which would have answered many questions for the gardeners and this was to be screened across the top of the display - but the distance was too great and it didn’t happen. We had to remove the […]

Member Desiree Osmond asked if her husband could be useful…. Could he ever!!!

Ross was fantastic, taking on lots of handyman jobs, including the next stage of the glasshouse. It was a huge task, thank heavens he came along.