THIS week it’s a month to Christmas – time to think about gifts! Our DIY expert Mark Rayner has some inexpensive garden gift ideas that you can make for gardeners and non-gardeners alike (see page 16).
Plants are a gift option that suit all sorts of occasions. I know of a gardener who given some plants during a charity fund-raising event has decided to propagate more from them which she will, in turn, gift back next year. Plants really are unique gifts for the way they can grow.
In this issue we also feature an Otago couple’s garden on a near-impossible site (page 12) and introduce a German gardener and gardening author who fell in love with New Zealand and bought a garden business in Kerikeri. See page 19 and Palmco’s centrefold palm guide.
We also have features on growing gingers, my favourite spice (page 16) and dwarf beans (page 27). And because timing can be as important as time itself when growing food, Gillian Vine writes about vegetable oysters, something different to grow now for winter (page 26).
Meanwhile, we have all summer ahead of us to enjoy our gardens and gardening.
Susie Longdell,
Editor.
