Rapaura paradiseThursday, 19 April 2012Every year, thousands of motorists travel down the Thames Coast Road on the Coromandel peninsula, all heading somewhere, few taking the time to stop and smell the flowers.

Coromandel’s golden greenTuesday, 17 April 2012When Mary Pat Hogan visited New Zealand from the United States seven years ago, she embarked on a whirlwind romance with a stunning Coromandel garden.

Look what’s cooking in the Coromandel!Monday, 16 January 2012While many people choose to live in the big smoke, there’s simply no place like the country when it comes to glorious gardens, as one Garden-NZ reader explains.

Val Stevens - Kamo (Whangarei)Monday, 14 November 2011 While she may be from the home of the 'Kamo Kid', Val Stevens says good gardening is certainly not child's play!

Previn BatuwantudaweWednesday, 27 October 2010This week Previn shares his Ellerslie Garden with Garden-NZ readers. "I bought the house about 3 years ago. The very next day I started to attend to my garden. The special event this year is that the Wisteria that I planted started...

Trevor and Elspeth - TaurangaTuesday, 12 October 2010Trevor and Elspeth's garden from Greerton - Tauranga Elspeth just took these photos last week, on a sunny afternoon. Thank you for sharing your garden with...

Daphne FinlaysonThursday, 30 September 2010Daphne Finlayson, from Hamilton shares with us a bit about her garden. The formal garden's internal hedges are upright rosemary, with Cystis (pink and white), lavender, apple blossom carpet roses, bedding dahlias,...

Jill Comerford's wisteriaThursday, 23 September 2010Jill Comerford shares with us her purple wisteria which brings the beauty of spring right into her backyard. Little birds build their nests in it each year during spring. The most beautiful thing about it is when the "baby birds leave the nest...

Barrie Wills - AlexandraThursday, 23 September 2010 We have in excess of 130 rhodos on our leg-in 1100m² section and are planting more on an adjacent 600m² one we own.  Our house was built in the 1960's and we are about the 5th owners, so are building...

Coral Brown - Great Barrier IslandThursday, 16 September 2010 I cut down all the ti'tree and under scrub and started making gardens,bringing in rocks and digging them up out of the ground,as its very rocky here.My husband is a keen fisherman and i buried all the fish scraps in the gardens i was...