Wow, frantic and frenetic are just some of the words that best describe the last three weeks as we’ve been very busy getting our orders made up and away in time for Christmas. As tired as I feel just now I know my to do list is not fully cleared until I publish this brief [...]
Christmas Orders … please note Due to demand and our 10 working days delivery time any orders made after 12th December may not be delivered in time for Christmas. We can however supply personalised “Tui Feeder Gift Certificates”. In respect to certificates issued we anticipate delivery occurring late December early January 2012. As always we [...]
A few weeks ago I arranged to visit Pat from the North Shore as he is one of our most enthusiastic clients. Several months back he placed an order for a deluxe pole mounted tui feeder and within a few days of receiving it he was on the phone telling me how well it was [...]
Over the last few months we’ve had a great response to our deluxe tui feeder combo offer so I figured the time was right to detail how one goes about attaching a suet feeder. The offer which closes on the 23rd September includes a half the normal price suet feeder with every deluxe tui feeder. [...]
The idea of making a bird feeder from an empty Just Juice bottle occurred to me on a wet Saturday afternoon as I was disposing of “our plastics” in the recycling bin. Plastic is one of my pet hates therefore I’m often thinking of other ways that it can be put to good use. I [...]
Over the last few months I’ve received a number of phone calls from customers asking where certain components fit on to the deluxe tui feeder. After having designed the product and consequently spent days, weeks and months making them up its all run of the mill but what I take for granted is sometimes not [...]
Each week as I pack up our tui feeders for dispatch I wonder if those receiving them will have any difficulty setting them up in their gardens. Having worked in the furniture trade off and on for many years I can turn my hand to most things however I’m aware that some people can not. [...]
Little did I know how this garden blog would evolve as I struggled to find words for the first post on that sunny February morning back in 2009. At the time I really didn’t know where to start. The intention was to keep a record of my garden and to make it available for anyone [...]
Each working week my days are mostly taken up with the making of tui feeders whilst tuning in to Leighton Smith mornings on Newstalk ZB. Much of what I do is repetitious so radio talk back breaks the monotony and helps to keep me informed with whats happening in the world. If I’m going to [...]
Tui ( prosthemadera novaeseelandiae) are endemic “native and unique” to New Zealand. They are found on the three main islands and belong to the honey eater family. Tui are a fully protected in New Zealand. The name Tui is derived from the Maori language with the plural being simply tui. Europeans who first colonised New [...]
