Garden’s winter bloomers brighten gloom
Winter flowers are everywhere at the botanic garden, representing a full colour spectrum.
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From concrete to comfy
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From concrete to comfy
A clever conversion fits beautifully into its rural setting, Kim Dungey reports.
Your garden: Rotate those crops
Your garden: Rotate those crops
Crop rotation is an important way of getting the most from the vegetable and flower garden to minimise the risk of diseases.
Flower-powered healer
Flower-powered healer
Lushly illustrated new book Aotearoa in Bloom looks at the history and uses of many of NZ's native flowering plants and trees, including their significance in te ao Māori.
Trend for bridges from pretty to practical
Trend for bridges from pretty to practical
The Botanic Garden is bisected by the Lindsay Creek, dividing the garden into two distinct areas; the more formal, level Lower Garden and the steeper Upper Garden.
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Your garden
What to do in your garden this week.
Dame Jacinda's house for sale after Australia move
Dame Jacinda's house for sale after Australia move
The Sandringham home owned by Dame Jacinda Ardern and her husband Clarke Gayford is up for sale.
A refined take on the shed
A refined take on the shed
Andrea Stevens and Simon Devitt explore 30 new houses that respond to the land. This book extract focuses on a home in the Wakatipu Basin.
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Your garden
What to do in your garden this week.
Mystery pine joins the known
Mystery pine joins the known
Have you ever wondered where new cultivars come from and how they get a name?
City’s ‘best-in-class’ townhouses win industry honours
City’s ‘best-in-class’ townhouses win industry honours
A million-dollar complex of six fully-electric Dunedin townhouses has been recognised on the national stage.
Your garden: potatoes, root cuttings and caring for canes
Your garden: potatoes, root cuttings and caring for canes
What to do in your garden this week.
A helping frond
A helping frond
Pyrrosia eleagnifolia, commonly known as leather-leaf fern, is a distinctive climbing fern native to New Zealand.
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Fungus under us
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Fungus under us
You don’t need to use a garden fork or fork out money to benefit the mycorrhizal fungi in your garden, writes Maureen Howard.
Heat beneath the glass
Heat beneath the glass
How do you keep warm in a more sustainable and environmentally friendly way when your house is made of glass with no insulation?
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Your garden
What to do in your garden this week.
Embracing textures of nature
Embracing textures of nature
Bigger doesn’t necessarily mean better, as this award-winning home demonstrates.
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Shining light on autumn colours
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Shining light on autumn colours
A Mosgiel garden has plenty of colour in late autumn, and not just during the day, Louise Frampton discovers.
New life for felled tree
New life for felled tree
A long-anticipated sculpture, created by artist Tavita Faafoi, was unveiled in the grounds of Olveston Historic Home earlier this month.
Abundance of white bloomers
Abundance of white bloomers
Aotearoa New Zealand is renowned for having an exceptionally high proportion of white-flowering plant species.
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