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Garage packed with nostalgia

Jonathan Usher has filled his garage with retro magic as well as a nostalgic collection of pinball machines. Ella Jenkins reports.

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Traditional art has many uses
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Enabling children to thrive

FASHION

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Vintage shop keeps the doc away
Collections Graduate Fashion Show 2025
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Natural decision to follow fashion runway back to Teviot

Food and wine

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Revived hotel and cafe busy

Slow and steady may have been the plan but fast and furious has taken over as the once-shuttered Hyde Hotel is revived and restored as The Hydeaway.

Food inspired by summer

If you are craving the sun, sea and salt air that comes with a holiday by the sea but cannot quite get there, Donna Hay’s latest book will certainly put you in the mood without going anywhere.
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No-churn cherry and pistachio ice cream

This no-fuss, no-churn ice cream brings together the sweetness of cherries, the crunch of toasted pistachios and a hint of rose for something a little exotic.
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The wine to take into that (fleeting) sun on the deck

Welcome to the final column before the short Christmas-New Year break for Fresh.

Home & Garden

Dylan Norfield’s Doctors Point property has recently been appointed a five-star garden by the NZ...

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Wilderness tamed to become five-star garden

A Doctors Point garden has been turned from broom, gorse and pine trees into a five-star property, planted with 1400 species from all over the world.

Restoring a piece of history

Restoring a piece of history

A historic Dunedin harbourside cottage that belonged to the same family for nearly 120 years will be restored to its original state, its new owners say.
African daisies much like a well-loved resurfacing outfit

African daisies much like a well-loved resurfacing outfit

Cascading plants that flower on the Dunedin Botanic rock garden are like an outfit you buy on the spur of the moment, wear to one event, and then put back in your overflowing wardrobe.
‘ODT’ writer recognised

‘ODT’ writer recognised

Long-time Otago Daily Times garden writer Gillian Vine will next year be awarded a Royal New Zealand Institute of Horticulture’s New Zealand National Award.

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Huriawa Peninsula’s sheer cliffs helped protect Te Pā-a-Te-Wera from the long siege laid by Taoka...

Toitū te whenua: Keeping your enemies close

Fighting talk and words of defiance are forever etched into the history of Huriawa Peninsula, Matapura Ellison tells Tom McKinlay and Luke Chapman.

Turning to stars for inspiration

Turning to stars for inspiration

People have always looked up at the night sky and wondered. And we should keep on doing it, Jennifer Boland tells Rebecca Fox.
Preparing for anything

Preparing for anything

The big global climate crisis we’re doing our best to ignore, has plans for each of our communities, Paul Gorman writes.
Up to their new tricks

Up to their new tricks

Over the past week, the media have been reporting on a new discovery — that 450,000 years ago, Neanderthals were generating fire, far earlier than previously known.

Life & Style

Garage packed with nostalgia

Traditional art has many uses

Enabling children to thrive

FASHION

Vintage shop keeps the doc away

Collections Graduate Fashion Show 2025

Natural decision to follow fashion runway back to Teviot

Food and wine

Revived hotel and cafe busy

Food inspired by summer

No-churn cherry and pistachio ice cream

The wine to take into that (fleeting) sun on the deck

Home & Garden

Wilderness tamed to become five-star garden

Restoring a piece of history

Restoring a piece of history

African daisies much like a well-loved resurfacing outfit

African daisies much like a well-loved resurfacing outfit

‘ODT’ writer recognised

‘ODT’ writer recognised

Magazine

Toitū te whenua: Keeping your enemies close

Turning to stars for inspiration

Turning to stars for inspiration

Preparing for anything

Preparing for anything

Up to their new tricks

Up to their new tricks

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You Can Almost Smell the Hay

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A Tale of Two Buildings

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