I was in the supermarket the other day and saw that tomatoes are currently up around the $10.00 a kilo price. Well I suppose it is winter and tomatoes are a lot more expensive to buy,even if they are fairly tasteless when compared to your own home grown ones. A lot of the tomatoes sold […]
Birds love fruit as much as we do and if you are not careful birds can get all the fruit off a tree or bush before you do. There are several ways you can ensure that you have ample fruit from your garden leaving surplus for the birds to finish off. Many types of fruit […]
Citrus trees are still the very popular fruiting tree today, as they were in our grandparents time. It is great to be able to pop outside and pick a few ripe oranges or lemons for the table. There is little reason that all New Zealanders cannot do so, […]
Winter can be a tough time for plants that grow in containers either outside or indoors, unless you take some special care of them. Before we look at the problems these plants face, let us consider the difference between plants growing in the garden and the ones in containers. Garden plants have nature to look […]
Sitting pretty in a busy world As our lives get busier and busier, we look for places to retreat, relax and unwind. Your outdoor space has the potential to become a peaceful comfortable place, furnished with comforts once only relegated for interior spaces. Everyone can live comfortably outdoors these days, provided you have thought through […]
AESTHETICS – by Sandra Batley Most landscape designers would agree plants play a significant role in the overall aesthetic of the garden. The palette of plants chosen and displayed help create a sense of place They evoke feelings, capture a mood, as well as beautifying and enhancing the outdoors In the residential landscape design process […]
New Venue Confirmed! Auckland Flower Show Ltd is pleased to announce that the venue for this years Auckland Flower and Garden Show is now confirmed as the comprehensively developed venue at Alexandra Park in Epsom, just 2.1km from the Ellerslie Racecourse where flower shows in Auckland began in 1994. The new venue has so many […]
Some very cool easily downloadable free programmes we’ve found drop.io This site offers a simple way of sharing files. Create a name for your “drop”, upload files to it and then let your colleagues access it. Each “drop” contains thumbnails of your files so people can see them before choosing to download or not. printgreener.com […]
