Your garden: September 18
What's happening in your garden this week?
Life & Style
Early blossom banishing winter blues
Early blossom banishing winter blues
Early blossom lifts the jaded winter heart. Two classic main stars at this time are Prunus and Magnolia.
Dream kitchens
Dream kitchens
In today’s open-plan homes, life inevitably revolves around the kitchen. Sculleries, multi-purpose islands and a connection to the outdoors are often on the wish list and many feature a mix of...
Colour, shape and texture appeal
Colour, shape and texture appeal
In 1999, opportunity knocked on an undeveloped space in the Dunedin Botanic Garden between the rock garden and the arboretum.
Legends of the dell
Legends of the dell
Gillian Vine is overwhelmed by the number of New Zealand-bred rhododendrons.
New lease on life for nomadic cottage
New lease on life for nomadic cottage
A dilapidated cottage was the starting point for an unconventional build in Central Otago. Kim Dungey reports.
Your garden: September 11
Your garden: September 11
What's happening in your garden this week?
Taste of the tropics under glass
Taste of the tropics under glass
Heliconia have one of those iconic flowers that come to mind when we think of the tropics.
Your garden: September 4
Your garden: September 4
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A snow of several hues
A snow of several hues
Gillian Vine meets a snowdrop specialist.
Big-leaved perennial provides impressive presence
Big-leaved perennial provides impressive presence
Whatever sort of garden idea or theme you have in mind, a choice from New Zealand’s flora always adds something special.
Your garden: August 28
Your garden: August 28
What's happening in your garden this week?
Excellence recognised
Excellence recognised
An aquatic centre, a wine-tasting room and university lecture theatres built in the 1970s are among 23 projects to be recognised in the 2020 Southern Architecture Awards.
Triple colour drop from single bloom
Triple colour drop from single bloom
If you’ve become addicted to gardening and want to learn about plant nomenclature, that is, the botanical naming of plants in Latin, it’s hard to know where to start.
Home on the hill
Home on the hill
The interior of this Dunedin home has a Scandinavian feel but the bush-clad setting is quintessential New Zealand. Kim Dungey takes a look.
Your garden: August 21
Your garden: August 21
What's happening in your garden this week?
African birds in garden’s aviary
African birds in garden’s aviary
Dunedin Botanic Garden has recently welcomed a new flock of African fire finches to the aviary.
Decisions, decisions
Decisions, decisions
Gillian Vine looks forward to spring in the vegetable garden.
Your garden: August 14
Your garden: August 14
What's happening in your garden this week?
Cost-conscious, simple vision
Cost-conscious, simple vision
Strong geometric shapes feature in this Central Otago home. Kim Dungey reports.
