Awesome orchid We thought we would send this image of our dendrobium orchid (pictured left), one of four we have. It grows outside in our courtyard and never fails to delight us. We bring it into the porch when it flowers. Joan Enderby, Papatoetoe. Shell be right I wanted to get a ready-built raised garden [...]
Reader Letters – Issue #292
June 1, 2010 By
Nameless delight I have had this rose (pictured left) in my garden for many years. It is completely free of thorns, and each branch is covered with blooms lasting for weeks. The blooms don’t lose their petals – when they turn brown I just remove them from the stems. This beautiful rose delights visitors and [...]
Luscious lilies
January 26, 2010 By
I couldn’t resist sending this photo I took of lilies grown by my father Graham of Ararimu (just south of Auckland). The colour is outstanding and taken on a regular old digital camera. Treena Mullins, Ararimu.
Rose true to its name
December 15, 2009 By
It’s as rare as proverbial hens’ teeth to buy something these days that actually lives up to it’s name and its description. Some years passed I bought the rose ‘Everlasting Love’ as a present for my wife on our wedding anniversary (November 21). It was grown as a standard rose and just on the cusp [...]
Wentforth remembered
December 1, 2009 By
I was browsing through a 2007 Weekend Gardener when I came across an article about Doreen Follas and lovely photos of her garden Wentworth in Whitford. She and her late husband Colin had spent 13 years building this beautiful country garden. It was sad to read that all those years of hard work were to [...]
Trap those moths
November 4, 2009 By
Further to the warning by Sheryn Clothier, New Zealand Tree Crops Association’s publicity officer (in Issue 276) about the spread of the pest, guava moth, I have good news. I work part-time at Palmers and we now stock the pheromone trap to capture the male guava moth. We also have an excellent ‘green’product, Yates Success, [...]
Muffin tray on the move
October 20, 2009 By
Fruit pest on move
October 6, 2009 By
Fruit growers are warned to be on the alert for a new pest spreading through New Zealand. The fruit driller caterpillar (FDC), Coscinoptycha improbana, also known as the guava moth caterpillar, burrows into and spoils a wide range of fruits. In New Zealand, it has so far been identified in citrus, macadamias, feijoas, nashi pears, [...]
Tip for Pieris
September 22, 2009 By
Regarding the letter to the Plant Doctor from Dawn Schofield in Issue 273. I have two very happy healthy pieris growing in my garden that are about 10 years old. They are in an area that gets full sun, are mulched with bark and the only attention they get is deadheading. After they have finished flowering, I remove all the [...]
Netting the Answer
September 8, 2009 By
