50 shades of grey
Grey is in fashion outside, as well as indoors. Gillian Vine reports.
Life & Style
Brightening up a winter garden
Brightening up a winter garden
Making a bright winter statement are the red, berry-like pomes of an often-mispronounced shrub.
Your garden: June 18
Your garden: June 18
What's happening in your garden this week?
All about the views
All about the views
The owner of this Dunedin property wanted a warm, low-maintenance home that maximised the views. Kim Dungey reports.
Making the most of climbing roses
Making the most of climbing roses
Climbing roses are ideal for highlighting vertical and horizontal dimensions in your garden.
Bright ideas for houseplants
Bright ideas for houseplants
There are a few things about light levels that every plant lover needs to know, writes James Wong.
Your garden: June 11
Your garden: June 11
What's happening in your garden this week?
Black Quail House Home of the Year
Black Quail House Home of the Year
A Central Otago home has been named New Zealand Home of the Year 2021.
All their leaves are down
All their leaves are down
To survive the chill of winter, deciduous trees drop their leaves, some flaunting splendid colour before they fall.
Three-season wonder
Three-season wonder
Under the protection of the Winter Garden glasshouse, Pentas lanceolata provides wonderful colour over many months: flowering in early summer, through autumn and well into winter.
Your garden: June 4
Your garden: June 4
What's happening in your garden this week?
Fine architecture, design on screen
Fine architecture, design on screen
After an enforced hiatus last year due to Covid-19, the Resene Architecture and Design Film Festival is back for its 10th year, with films about architecture, art, photography and gardening.
Produce picked at peak
Produce picked at peak
When Riverstone Kitchen was being built, owner-chef Bevan Smith was determined to establish a kitchen garden to enhance the menu.
Your garden: May 28
Your garden: May 28
What's happening in your garden this week?
Signature plants cultivate meaning
Signature plants cultivate meaning
Complementing the camellias and specimen trees in the lower botanic garden camellia collection, which covers an acre of cultivated land, are the underplantings of herbaceous ground covers.
Community keen to buy Mahy's former home
Community keen to buy Mahy's former home
Margaret Mahy's old book collection may go back to the community if a bid to purchase her former home and turn it into a space for locals and aspiring writers is successful.
Plan gardens to blend with existing views
Plan gardens to blend with existing views
Borrowing a view is a well utilised concept in garden planning and design. Linking to the wider landscape extends your garden views and when done well can seem almost seamless.
Planning, planting, sharing
Planning, planting, sharing
In their new book, The Abundant Garden, Niva and Yotam Kay, provide a practical guide to developing a regenerative home garden. Here, they share the secrets of seed saving.
Home away from home
Home away from home
It was on a Japanese ski trip that the owners of this Wanaka house came to appreciate the efficiency of small spaces. Kim Dungey reports.
Take advantage of autumn’s beauty
Take advantage of autumn’s beauty
With shorter days and cooler temperatures, lush summer foliage and bright blooms give way to autumnal colours as nature slows down and prepares for the cold winter days that lie ahead.
