Where has the name of this dance come from?

The Tui is a NZ native bird.  They are very beautiful in colour, with a white bib under their chin and come to our garden at different times during the year when the flaxes are fruiting, or the Kowhai is in flower. 

They have many different songs too depending on the area they live in, and we love having them in our garden.  As they are tree dwellers, our cat, Rua, has never, to our knowledge, caught one. They also like eating apple if you put some out on the bird table.

Many years ago, I ended up devising a dance for Damon as he was trying to find a dance with a Poussette in it for our new dancers that didn’t have a foot change.  I looked and looked for him and after not being able to find one I devised “The Flowering Heather”.	 https://youtu.be/JcPoaO981nc 
The Tuis were in the garden that day as I was devising. I watched them drinking the nectar from the Kowhai flowers and I thought they were getting rather tiddly on it.  

We had just returned from a trip to the UK where had walked in the stunning Lammermuir Hills. The heather was beautiful, so the dance I devised for Damon was either going to be called “The Flowering Heather” or “Tuis in the Garden”.  

So, at last, the Tuis have a dance named after them, as they were again in the garden when this dance started to form in my dancing brain.