Tag: "Garden"

Create shelter and enjoy your outdoor spaces

Create shelter and enjoy your outdoor spaces

Premium Outdoor Screens at attractive prices Typically winter is a time when we put away our BBQ’s, outdoor furniture, umbrellas and shade sails and with them take away the use and enjoyment of our outdoor spaces. This doesn’t have to be the case this winter.  You could be entertaining and the kids playing in your [...]

When to plant

When to plant

A gardener with a good micro-climate; as a result of the terrain, or by established trees, making a sheltered hot spot which can be planting out a month or more before it is safe for another gardener to do so, just up the road. When you buy packets of seeds you will find on the packet [...]

Tropical delight on the shore – Peter Fry

Tropical delight on the shore – Peter Fry

Tropical delight on the shore The brief on this Mairangi Bay property in simple terms was “I want to be in Fiji without leaving my backyard”. With this in mind and an openess for creativity we went about our task with a passion.  The interest and challenge was the movement and placement of 40 tonne [...]

Digger Dan’s gardening tips

Digger Dan’s gardening tips

Harvest your garlic and keep up the watering advises Digger.

Subalpine beauty in the Mackenzie Basin – a Findaplant.co.nz article

Subalpine beauty in the Mackenzie Basin – a Findaplant.co.nz article

Subalpine scrub and dry grasslands serve as the basis for the planting at this Tekapo garden. By Philip Smith from o2 Landscapes.

Wally Richards: January gardening

Wally Richards: January gardening

There’s plenty to do in the garden during January including managing pests and planting winter veges.

Wally Richards: Christmas garden pest control

Wally Richards: Christmas garden pest control

Improving weather can bring a range of pests into our gardens.

Grass Grub Beetle

Wally Richards – seasonal pests

Two seasonal pests are going to emerge over the next few weeks: the Codlin Moth and the Grass Grub Beetle.