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    Your garden

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    Your garden

    What to do in your garden this week.

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    Looking sharp: That cool house on the corner

    A Dunedin couple tell Kim Dungey how they overcame the odds to create one of the city’s most unique homes.

    Volunteers make light work of spruce-up

    Volunteers work in the Dunedin Botanic Garden Rhododendron Dell during the Oritain Volunteer Day...

    Volunteers make light work of spruce-up

    The rhododendron dell may seem like a self-sustaining woodland, but it requires ongoing work to maintain its balance.

    Flowering on track

    Delta gardener Nicola Kerr weeds around cyclamens in the Anzac Square garden in front of the...

    Flowering on track

    Louise Frampton asks Delta gardener Nicola Kerr how she keeps the Anzac Square at the Dunedin Railway Station looking its best.

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    Your garden

    What to do in your garden this week.

    Apprentices lighten rose pruning load

    Apprentices participate in a pruning masterclass. PHOTO: SUPPLIED

    Apprentices lighten rose pruning load

    It’s rose pruning time again and with over 700 modern roses to prune it can be quite a daunting job.

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    Estate an artistic escape

    A painting by Jamie White ties the sitting room together. PHOTOS: ELSA YOUNG

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    Estate an artistic escape

    A historic home in Sweden has been repurposed as a creative hub, Kerryn Fischer, of The Observer, writes.

    Nature is rarely orderly, best when messy

    Coarse woody debris is left to decay naturally in Lovelock Bush. PHOTO: GREGOR RICHARDSON

    Nature is rarely orderly, best when messy

    On a recent Monday morning, I took a routine "patrol" through Lovelock Bush, checking for any fallen trees or broken branches.

    Your garden

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    Returning garden to nature

    The results of an afternoon spent weeding aluminium plant in Dalmore Reserve. PHOTOS: MAUREEN HOWARD

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    Returning garden to nature

    You can restore a corner of your garden to native bush without resorting to herbicides or planting, writes Maureen Howard.

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    At home in its surroundings

    A twisted butterfly roof mirrors the peaks and troughs of the surrounding mountains. PHOTOS:...

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    At home in its surroundings

    Every room in this house has a mountain view and opens on to water. Kim Dungey reports.

    ‘Daphne bholua’ will brighten your day

    PHOTO: GREGOR RICHARDSON

    ‘Daphne bholua’ will brighten your day

    It is enough to bring a smile to your face on a dull winter day. Indeed, a wander past a blooming Daphne bholua will activate your olfactory sensors, trigger serotonin and lift your mood.

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    Continuing a legacy

    John Dodd and Marianne Groothuis stand beside the European beech (Fagus sylvatica). PHOTOS:...

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    Continuing a legacy

    Providing a green space in suburbia where birds and insects can flourish is the aim of an Opoho couple, Louise Frampton writes.

    Your garden

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    Your garden

    What to do in your garden this week.

    Living symbols of peace

    A gingko bilboa tree grown from a seed from a "hibaku tree" - a tree that survived the atomic...

    Living symbols of peace

    In 2017, the Rotary Club of Dunedin Central approached the Dunedin Botanic Garden to be a partner in a Green Legacy Hiroshima, Ceremonial Peace Trees project. The garden was asked to grow 25 ginkgo...

    ‘Father of gardening’ puts away his trowel

    Nichol’s Garden Centre Dunedin senior shop assistant Davie Dijker holds a garden mum plant at the...

    ‘Father of gardening’ puts away his trowel

    Dunedin's "father of gardening" is hanging up his gloves after almost 50 years.

    Your garden

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    Your garden

    Although the weather may be cold, every opportunity should be taken over the next few weeks to dig and manure the vegetable garden, leaving the ground exposed to the ongoing winter weather, a...

    Teamwork key when tidying up, mulching borders for winter

    Dunedin Botanic Garden staff shift mulch at a teamwork day in the garden. PHOTO: SUPPLIED

    Teamwork key when tidying up, mulching borders for winter

    As we head into the winter months at Dunedin Botanic Garden our focus has been on tidying up the borders ready for mulching.

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