Little boy ‘blue’ this trumpet!At Garden-NZ we don’t like to blow our own trumpet, but when the challenge was offered by reader, Ann Chin, for us to identify this plant, we called in the cavalry.

Weeding becomes a ‘walk in the park’The natives were restless; Andy Spence, was seriously considering resorting to ‘tractor’ methods to control an epidemic weed infestation on ‘WeedHeke’. That was until he...

Pots of fun for Mother’s DayOnce upon a time our mothers gave us the greatest gift of all, the gift of life! So, this Mother’s Day, what better gift could there be than a living gift? Tod Palenski from Awapuni...

The ‘viner’ things in lifeWith winter closing in, bedsides nationwide await the ‘grape’ taste that often accompanies flowers and ‘get well soon’ cards. But, according to Dr Glen Creasy, senior...

Herb is the wordThe weather this time of year is enough to make us all go a little postal; but going ‘herbal’ could be the answer to keeping away those winter chills.

Poppies When our First World War diggers returned home many took to growing flowers and cultivated vegetables, leaving the digging of trenches behind them to excavate places for new crops. From their...