This will hurt me...

Sub-alpine vegetation enjoying the snow #1. Mount Wellington, August 2010. Even in the rugged climes of Mount Wellington, shrubbery and flowers abound! Sub-alpine vegetation enjoying the snow #2. Mount Wellington, August 2010. Sub-alpine vegetation enjoying the snow #3. Mount Wellington, August 2010.

Alpine vegetation is dominated by heath and shrubberies. See. Mount Wellington, May 2010. A sprinkling of snow on the mountain yesterday morning, it was gone by lunchtime though. If I were a flower, I wouldn't be able to decide whether I'd be a pansy or a hardy little Gaultheria hispeda . I'd steer clear of thorns. Thorns are for pricks.