Welcome back to another year of gardening articles and information by yours truly. It is not a new year in the garden, the new gardening year starts in June each year, which means we are half way through the current gardening year.
The Heroic Gardens Festival is Auckland’s biggest, most popular and only region-wide exhibition of privately owned gardens. Next year’s festival will be held on the weekend of 5th-6th March 2011 and will mark the 15th anniversary of this premier garden event. There will be 23 gardens on show ranging from Kumeu and Red Beach in […]
A dated 1980s’ garden received a comprehensive makeover to create a subtropical Bali-inspired outlook.
Words Soraya Nicholas Photography Thomas Law.
When the owners of this Auckland property approached landscape designer Mark Read from Natural Habitats about transforming their garden, they were busy planning renovations to their home. The house was being altered to include large sliding glass doors facing out to the courtyard, and they wanted to create a connection between the indoor and outdoor spaces.
A pizza oven is easy to operate and maintain, creating a glowing centre piece that friends and family can gather around for an evening. So what makes a pizza oven different from any other outdoor cooking?
Swish Automation and Watersafe Auckland have co-produced a new PoolSafe Supervision brochure. It provides a new look at pool, spa and water safety promotion in an effort to reduce death by drowning especially for children in the 0 – 6 age grouping. The brochure has been designed to improve the awareness of parents and caregivers […]
There are quite a few subtropical fruits being grown up here in the north now- it is now quite normal to have a fruiting banana palm in your backyard! Cherimoyas, cousin of the custard apple, also do well. The cherimoya is a ‘back to front’ tree, having its leaves in winter, and none in summer. […]
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An Aussie road worker needs a little sit down as he has “cramps”
