Flax on the Foreshore
This bush that New Zealanders typically call "flax" (or "Harakeke" in Māori) is not related to the european flax at all, but can serve a similar purpose as it is an exceptionally fibrous plant, and so can be found woven into all sorts of containers and makes excellent rope and paper.
While I was growing up our house was occasionally filled with the smell of dried flax from hundreds of new "piu piu" (a māori kilt, or skirt) that my father would sell to shops throughout New Zealand. Much more recently, when Heather was doing her art degree, she experimented with different fibres for papermaking, and the flax made some beautiful papers - very coarse, since they were handmade without a mechanical beater, but exceptionally strong.
Interestingly I see a lot of these in Ireland, as well, where it is called Phormium (from it's latin name) and few seem to be aware of it's origins on the other side of the planet.
This example is living on the foreshore of Wellington Harbour at Petone, and despite the glorious autumn weather on this particular day, the location gets a lot of weather pounding into it from the south, but flax can be found the length and breadth of New Zealand in even more challenging locations, weather-wise, and really anywhere that there is a good supply of water.