Many beautiful gardens and public landscape plantings owe their success primarily to restricting the colours of flowers, fruits, stems and foliage within a limited, related range. This is sometimes known as colour themes. Some of the first examples of colour theme borders, especially of white flowers and grey and silvery foliage, were created in the […]
I have been surprised this week about the number of gardeners who have called me in regards to problems they are having with potatoes, tomatoes, beans and roses. Generally the problems have all been along the lines of distorted or unusual new growths on otherwise very healthy looking plants. The cause, in all cases, has […]
Garden Showcase – Award Winning Garden at The Auckland Flower Show GOLD medal for lighting, SILVER medal for construction, BRONZE medal for Design and Planting Design: Caroline Wesseling Landscapes Construction: Landscape Creations
The Wildflower Sculpture Exhibition in Hawke’s Bay was a symposium of work from over 32 sculptors. The gallery below is a selection of some of the work. For more information click here or contact us. View the gallery Here
Waikato Home & Garden Show NZ Landscape Design & Sculpture Awards 2008 2008 NZ Landscape Design Awards Gold: Project Landscape Silver: Matt Perry for Wintec Bronze: Tall Poppies Landscape Centre Highly Commended: Imagine Landscape Design, Tailored Environments Peoples Choice: Wintec by Matt Perry Night Light Award Gold: Project Landscape Silver: Tailored Environments Bronze: Tall Poppies […]
New season tomato plants are now becoming available from your garden centre and now is a good time to start off an early tomato plant or two. The best advise is to plant out, or pot up, a couple of tomato plants every month for the next six or seven months. By doing this you […]
Fragrance Have you noticed how a lot of blokes who are gardeners tend to keep the emphasis on utilitarian function, producing food in the form of fruit, vegetables and nuts and are not so much interested in the purely aesthetic side of gardening? And women tend, more often, to have aesthetics at the top of […]
It’s time to plant new and maintain existing roses in your garden. Featured Rose Gallery [slideshow=3] Selected Roses available exclusively from Roache’s Nursery – Roach’s Rose List & Order Form Sunset Glow – Floribunda One of the brightest orange roses ever. Brilliant vermillion orange blooms with strong healthy disease resistant growth. Sunset Glow is quick […]
