Versatile, varied junipers come in all shapes and sizes
From tall, pencil-shaped trees to ground-hugging shrubs, junipers come in many shapes, sizes and colours.
Life & Style
Your garden: July 20
Your garden: July 20
What's happening in your garden this week?
Plan well and get plenty of pots
Plan well and get plenty of pots
Gillian Vine has some tips for downsizing a garden.
Silver grass offers interest year-round
Silver grass offers interest year-round
Miscanthus sinensis, commonly known as Japanese silver grass, is an ornamental clump-forming grass with upright arching stems that provides seasonal interest year-round. There are many cultivars to...
Cascades of colour and style
Cascades of colour and style
Gillian Vine finds plenty to admire among weeping trees and shrubs.
Your garden: July 13
Your garden: July 13
What's in your garden this week?
Grape expectations
Grape expectations
Gillian Vine enthuses about grapes.
Rose pruning can be easy
Rose pruning can be easy
Roses need to be pruned each year to encourage new growth.
Your garden: July 6
Your garden: July 6
Gardening at this time of the year is limited, as the winter's worst weather usually comes in July and August.
Succulents surprise
Succulents surprise
Forget hours of feeding and watering all summer long with traditional bedding and switch to cool, modern outdoor succulents, writes James Wong.
Much life to be found in winter garden
Much life to be found in winter garden
Gardens can seem more alive in winter than at any other time of year.
Your garden: June 28
Your garden: June 28
What's going on in your garden this week?
Courtship displays for all to enjoy
Courtship displays for all to enjoy
The crested pigeon (Ocyphaps lophotes) is an Australian native and quite a handsome one at that. Widespread throughout Australia, they are a common sight there.
Right spot, right time
Right spot, right time
Creating this unconventional holiday home was a team effort involving family and friends. Kim Dungey reports.
Your garden: June 22
Your garden: June 22
Crop rotation may sound overly scientific for the ordinary gardener, but it is an important way of getting the most from the vegetable garden.
New trail takes in trees that tell a story
New trail takes in trees that tell a story
Dunedin Botanic Garden has just released a new tree trail.
Autumn leaves gold for the garden
Autumn leaves gold for the garden
Winter is here and the past couple of months have been very busy with tidying-up tasks, including raking that seemingly never-ending supply of deciduous leaves falling from the trees.
Your garden: June 8
Your garden: June 8
What needs doing in your garden this week.
Versatile and beautiful
Versatile and beautiful
Gillian Vine considers the baddies and some good guys in the willow clan.