We have a STIHL Cordless Hedgetrimmer to give away to a lucky Weekend Gardener reader. For details on how to enter, purchase your copy of Weekend Gardener Issue 330.
Time for more gardening
January 5, 2012 By
January has to be one of my favourite months for gardens. Spring’s sometimes tempestuous exuberance settles into the more relaxed, grown-up style of our mid-summer, in perfect tandem with prime holiday time. Lawns are usually still a pleasant green, trees cast cool shade by day and the evenings are balmy. To top it off in [...]
Issue #329 Plant Noticeboard
December 14, 2011 By
• Can anyone help me find a Calliandra portoricensis, the large fragrant shrub sometimes called the white powder puff tree. Wendy, South Auckland, ph 021 872 276, email gardening@xnet.co.nz • Everyone admires my Leucospermum ‘High Gold’ and a neighbour would like one. Does anyone know we can get one? Suzanne, 1 Diana Place, Wanganui, 4500, [...]
Issue 329 Garden Events
December 14, 2011 By
JANUARY 7 – 8 Auckland Lily Society Show Auckland Horticultural Centre, 990 Great North Rd, Western Springs, Auckland. Sat, 11am-4pm, Sun 10am-3.30pm. Bring your questions and meet the experts. Trading table, bulbs for sale, raffles, good parking, gold coin admission. Ph 09 627 9455. 7 – 15 Festival of Pots and Garden Art Trinity Farm, [...]
Issue #329 Garden Notebook
December 14, 2011 By
It’s time… • Seedlings of heat-loving annuals – and that is most of our summer bedding plants, including petunias, impatiens, marigolds, helichrysums, bedding pelargoniums, verbenas, bedding begonias and zinnias – will establish very quickly now, unless drought stressed, and flower on into autumn. • Young plants will need watering now during dry periods. To conserve [...]
Destination Matakana
December 14, 2011 By
Lesley Ingham and Andrew Steens pick top spots for gardeners to visit in Matakana.
Microgreens to the rescue
December 14, 2011 By
If you mark the festive season by sitting down to a meal of new potatoes and fresh peas from your garden, you are doing far better than I’ve managed this year. With moving house, the new garden is not ready – but I’ve promised myself I will do better next year. But I can, at [...]
‘Lemon n Lime’ awards excitement
November 28, 2011 By
Roses are our most loved flower. So each November, when blooms should be at their best, the country’s big rose fraternity and rose fans by the thousand focus on Hamilton Gardens where over a weekend of great ceremony, fun and excitement the prestigious New Zealand Rose of the Year awards are decided. Children, the public, [...]
Issue #328 Plant Noticeboard
November 28, 2011 By
Issue 328 Garden Events
November 28, 2011 By
DECEMBER 2011 2 – 3 Heritage Roses and McGredy Rose Garden Garden open 10am-4pm to view the mass plantings of roses old and new, with perennials, shrubs, natives, trees, bulbs and annuals. View the progress in the McGredy Rose Garden. Entry $6 to raise funds for fututre developments in the garden. Contact Georgina Campbell, 43 [...]
