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Stretching Your Dollar in the Garden

Stretching Your Dollar in the Garden

Gardening, or more to the point, growing as many of your own fruit and vegetables as you can, is one way to off-set the times when your dollar has to stretch further. Most readers aged around their sixties will remember growing up at a time when our parents were very conscious of hard times. In […]

Texture Plants - the people’s  favourite at Ellerslie

Texture Plants – the people’s favourite at Ellerslie

Visitors to the Ellerslie International Flower Show have spoken and chosen Texture Plants’ Off the Wall garden as their favourite. The People’s Choice Award was last night given to a garden which is a secluded area in which to escape from the hustle and bustle of every-day life. It is a combination of seamless structures, […]

Patch from Scratch - March

Patch from Scratch – March

March 1st is officially the beginning of autumn and a signal to vege gardeners that we are moving onto the next season. No no no! I’m not ready to start thinking about soups and stews yet! Hopefully it will be a long summer like last year. Have you noticed little brown moths on your beans […]

Auckland photographer wins The Great Ellerslie Photo competition in Christchurch

Auckland photographer wins The Great Ellerslie Photo competition in Christchurch

Amateur Auckland photographer John Pirtle is on a winning streak having been named the winner of two national photographic competitions in just three months. Mr Pirtle is the winner of this year’s The Great Ellerslie Photo Competition, with his image Lest We Forget (right) which he created for a friend on the anniversary of her […]

Christchurch retains National Flower Bed title

Christchurch retains National Flower Bed title

Christchurch has retained the National Flower Bed title at this year’s Ellerslie International Flower Show. The city’s entry, a floral tribute to the controversial Peacock Fountain in the Botanic Gardens, has won both gold and been named Ellerslie’s National Flower Bed for 2009. Christchurch won the inaugural National Flower Bed Competition in 2007 at the […]

Four exhibition gardens win gold at Ellerslie

Four exhibition gardens win gold at Ellerslie

Four exhibition gardens have won gold at this year’s Ellerslie International Flower Show. In what the judges say was “a tough competition for the medals with a number of hotly contested criteria”, Wellington designer Ben Hoyle and Christchurch designers Carl Pickens, Rob Watson for the Canterbury Horticultural Society and Sir Miles Warren, Alan Trott, Pauline […]

Designing with native plants

Designing with native plants

Now is the time to re-invent native planting. The 1980s saw what I like to call the ‘early period’ of native planting design. It was based on the ‘DoC Visitor Centre’ idiom – a bushy thicket of mixed vigorous shrubs and trees with a scattering of sedges or grasses at the edges – oh, and […]

Find Landscape Desginers, Architects & Gardeners in the Bay of Plenty Region

Find Landscape Desginers, Architects & Gardeners in the Bay of Plenty Region

Are you looking for a Landscape Designer or Landscape Architect in Bay of Plenty? Including Rotorua, Tauranga, Mount Maunganui