Your garden: May 7
Your garden: May 7
What's happening in your garden this week?
Life & Style
A pop of colour makes a big difference
A pop of colour makes a big difference
Anyone can bring colour into their homes with paint, wallpaper, flowers, plants, pillows or throws, writes Geraldine James in this edited extract from A Pop of Colour.
Blooms take top two spots
Blooms take top two spots
Picking a pair of prize-winning chrysanthemums came as a blooming surprise to Julie Judd.
Historic packhouse on property for sale
Historic packhouse on property for sale
A historic packhouse from the beginnings of fruit cultivation in Central Otago is being sold as part of a lifestyle property in Coal Creek.
Chilean woodland climber rings a bell
Chilean woodland climber rings a bell
Autumn to early winter is the main flowering time for Lapageria rosea, the Chilean bellflower.
Your garden: April 30
Your garden: April 30
What's happening in your garden this week?
Garden rules made to be broken
Garden rules made to be broken
No need to listen to too much good advice, writes James Wong. Just get stuck in and have some fun.
Treehouse dream in Haka Valley
'Kind of paradise': Couple realise treehouse dream
If putting a treehouse on the side of a cliff, in a forest, with swing bridges, was easy, more people would be doing it.
Historic home gets new lease of life
Historic home gets new lease of life
This heritage home has been transformed with a sensitive addition that provides for modern, practical living. Kim Dungey reports.
Reputations aside, hawthorns have a place
Reputations aside, hawthorns have a place
The genus Crataegus contains hundreds of species, all from the northern hemisphere, but has developed a bad name due to the invasive European or better-known common hawthorn, Crataegus monogyna.
Gardens brighten hospital visit
Gardens brighten hospital visit
Gillian Vine gets a buzz from a hospital visit.
Your garden: April 23
Your garden: April 23
What's happening in your garden this week?
NZ natives suitable for indoor plantings
NZ natives suitable for indoor plantings
Not many indoor plants originate from temperate climates like ours, but how about giving some New Zealand natives a go in your indoor jungle?
Desert plant surprises owner
Desert plant surprises owner
After 20 years of watching and waiting, Raewyn Luscombe was close to digging out her rare Agave americana plant — then she spotted something yellow sprouting.
Your garden: April 16
Your garden: April 16
What's happening in your garden this week?
‘Pleasurables’ the way to grow
‘Pleasurables’ the way to grow
Gillian Vine visits a tiny garden and is amazed at what its owner squeezes in.
Extend autumn colour with careful planning
Extend autumn colour with careful planning
When we think of autumn from a gardener’s point of view we may admire the beautiful autumn foliage of the trees. A gardener’s grim focus, though, can be that it’s time to get out the rake and add leaves to compost.
Mayor to look at tiny home policy
Boult to look at tiny home policy
Queenstown Lakes Mayor Jim Boult has promised owners of a tiny home he'll take a look at what they think are unworkable rules for living in them.
Time for naked ladies to bare all
Time for naked ladies to bare all
Gillian Vine looks at a bulb family that signals the seasonal change.
More than a passing resemblance
More than a passing resemblance
Plants with common physical attributes are classified into families. Named after one of its members, a plant family generally ends in the Latin suffix "aceae" — meaning "resembling". For example,...
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