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THE pink ‘greenhouse’ featured in Weekend Gardener (issue #301) has raised $2040 for breast cancer research. Winter Gardenz auctioned the greenhouse on TradeMe in a national promotion to raise awareness of the disease for the Breast Cancer Foundation. The four-week auction, which had 14,000 views, was won by Canterbury gardener Vickie Ward whose brother-in-law died [...]
THE second annual Nelson Growables at Founders Heritage Park in November takes the prize for best one-day garden show in New Zealand in 2010. More than 4000 enthusiasts attended the Nelson District Health Board and NELMAC-funded event in an outstanding setting. Healthy plants for sale galore; with dozens of garden organisations represented, seminars and demonstrations. [...]
AFTER the cherry tomato, a virus-resistant tomato and the long-life tomato, Israel is adding a new star to the lineup – a tomato that doesn’t drip. No more tomato juice dribbling down your chin or making your salads soggy: Israel’s new dripless tomato, the Admoniya is on the market. Exports of the tomato, branded ‘Intense’ [...]
NOVEMBER 2010 19 – 5 Dec Pohutukawa Festival Twenty events on the peninsular, www.pohutukawafestival.co.nz DECEMBER 2010 4 Hawera Arts in the Park King Edward Park, Hawera. 10am. 4 – 5 North Harbour Rose Society Rose Show Sat 11.30am-4pm; Sun 9.30am-3.30pm, Northcote Citizens Centre; adults $3, under 15 free. Information table, rose plants, and blooms, garden [...]
• I have tried without success to buy sweet-smelling bouvardia. I have one but believe they come in many colours. Can someone tell me where to get them or can someone supply cuttings? Hilary Rains, ph 06 304 8025 or email hilaryrains@xtra.co.nz • Does anyone know where I can buy hoya plants or can someone [...]
Early summer is a wonderful time to work in the garden and there’s still plenty of growth to reward our efforts if we make sure the soil stays moist. Use summer flowering bedding plants to fill gaps in pots and the garden. They will grow quickly this month if watered when necessary and will crowd [...]
MOST of an editor’s time is spent in front of a computer, which makes my visit to the Rose of the Year event in Rogers Rose Gardens at Hamilton Gardens special. Judging the various varieties is delightful, as is rubbing shoulders with our own world-class rose breeders. Their lovely roses demonstrate what deep study of [...]
• I am looking for white dwarf agapanthus plants, hopefully three the same. I will pay costs. Barbara Roff, 22 Gretna St, Invercargill 9812, ph 03 216 6801, email g.b.roff@xtra.co.nz • Does anyone have seeds of a highly scented, dark purple stock? Happy to pay costs. Barbara Quickenden, 44 Tanera Cres, Brooklyn, Wellington 6021, ph [...]
19 Otorohanga Beattie Home Rose & Flower Show Otorohanga Club, light lunch and raffles, opens noon. Ph 07 873 0975. 19 - 5 Dec Brian Tufficliffe Nissan Pohutukawa Festival 20 events, including Pohutukawa Wearable Arts, www.pohutukawafestival.co.nz 19 - 21 Wellington Botanic Garden Rose Festival 2010 Three days with the focus firmly on roses – see [...]
Keep an eye on new seedlings in the vegetable and flower garden and water well in dry weather. Plant up bare ground in shady places with coleus, impatiens, hostas, native begonias and ferns. Fill small, bare, sunny areas for summer with punnets of flower plants – there’s plenty choose from in garden shops right now. [...]
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Issue #331. January 26 - February 8, 2012
Tasman Bay feature garden
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Flower garden
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