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Housing built for healing
This large home is not only a relaxing haven for its residents, it is designed to be resilient in the face of climate change. Kim Dungey reports.
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Home & Garden
Queenstown house wins supreme building award
Queenstown house wins supreme building award
A Queenstown home constructed by Velvin Building has been awarded the supreme house of the year over $1 million at the 2025 Southern Master Builders House of the Year awards.
‘Plants of utility’ still making presence felt
‘Plants of utility’ still making presence felt
In the late 1860s - when still under the management of the Otago provincial government, it was decided to move the Dunedin Botanic Garden because of severe flooding of its old site.
Your garden
Your garden
What to do in your garden this week.
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Looking sharp
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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 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
Flowering on track
Louise Frampton asks Delta gardener Nicola Kerr how she keeps the Anzac Square at the Dunedin Railway Station looking its best.
Your garden
Your garden
What to do in your garden this week.
Apprentices lighten rose pruning load
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.
Your garden
Your garden
What to do in your garden this week.
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Estate an artistic escape
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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
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
Your garden
What to do in your garden this week.
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Returning garden to nature
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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
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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
‘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
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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
Your garden
What to do in your garden this week.
Living symbols of peace
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
‘Father of gardening’ puts away his trowel
Dunedin's "father of gardening" is hanging up his gloves after almost 50 years.
