Gillian Vine

Lynette Robinson's memoir, Where the Rainbow Fell Down, records her view of her dysfunctional family, poverty and her relationship with the Catholic Church.

A South Australian garden, Al-Ru, is a surprising oasis of green, as Gillian Vine finds.

Working bees are the model for Permablitz, which is converting backyards to vegetables beds. Gillian Vine reports.

Many international flower shows feature new plants. Gillian Vine looks at this year's Ellerslie line-up.

It's not to late to sow winter vegetables, writes Gillian Vine.

There's a fashion at the moment for books recording a year in the writer's garden. New Zealand Gardener editor-at-large Lynda Hallinan is the latest to tap into the trend with a record that progressed from scrawled notes in [her] garden diary to the publication of Back to the Land.

She misses out on tasting the cherries but Gillian Vine still gets excited by an English fruit collection.

More vegetables, fewer flowers, impressive floral art, the first school entry, excellent sculpture and a massive photographic section were some of the impressions of this year's Ellerslie International Flower Show in Christchurch this week.

Formerly unused land at a Dunedin school has been turned into a productive community garden. Gillian Vine reports.