About

Weekend Gardener magazine is New Zealand’s national, fortnightly, do-it-yourself gardening magazine aimed at people with a love of gardening. The outsize magazine (260mm wide x 300mm deep), published every other Thursday, is a true celebration of gardening, a unique all-year-round experience in which one in three New Zealanders participate.

Weekend Gardener was launched in 1998: it includes comprehensive columns and features that follow the seasons and encourages strong reader involvement, with step-by-step, easy to follow, practical advice. The magazine provides inspirational garden hints and tips. The depth and regular frequency of Weekend Gardener makes the publication a valuable companion for gardeners of all ages and levels of expertise. The magazine has high retention as reference guide for useful ideas and advice.

QUICK FACTS

Publisher: WG Publications Ltd, 22 Karaka St, Newton, Auckland, New Zealand. Ph 09 377 2340, Fax 09 377 2369 e-mail wgpubs@xtra.co.nz

Weekend Gardener: 24 issues a year. Cover price: $4.95

Gardener’s Quarterly: 4 issues a year. Cover price: $6.95

Circulation:

New Zealand Circulation (print run), including special supplements run ons, average 25,000 fortnightly.

Circulated via garden centres, mega stores, Mitre 10, Bunnings, bookshops and retail (3500 outlets nationally). Plus garden shows and festivals, clubs and Weekend Gardener-sponsored events.

20,000 fortnightly in Australia

Readership: Weekend Gardener has 132,000 readers.

Readership jumped 6.5% for the year ended March 31, 2010, up from 124,000 for the same period last year, according to Neilsen Media National Readership Survey. Weekend Gardener’s readership for the Q2 09 - Q1 2010 period represents 3.5% of population 10+

Cover Price: $4.95

Subscriptions:

$75.00 (1 year - 24 issues)

$140.00 (2 years - 48 issues)

Proud Sponsors of:

  • Trinity Garden Festival
  • Creative Gardens, Napier
  • Dunedin Rhododendron Festival
  • Heroic Gardens Festival
  • Gardenz
  • Taranaki Rhododendron & Garden Festival
  • Rotorua District Garden Festival
  • Rose Rhapsody
  • Manfeild Park Garden Festival
  • Eden Garden
  • NZ Palm & Cycad Society
  • Timaru Festival of Roses
  • Pacific Rose Bowl Festival
  • Just Gardening at Kumeu
  • Culverden Christmas Country Fete
  • Eastland Garden Festival
  • Jassy Dean Garden Safari
  • Taranaki’s Fringe Garden Festival

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