Hosta Empress Wu is one of the world’s largest growing hostas. This amazing plant when mature (5 years) reaches a height of approx 1.2m high by 1.5m wide and the leaves are 45cm long. With dark green leaves and lavender flower spikes, it is rapid growing and loves moist soil conditions. This is a great […]
The story of our Indian Sandstone range begins in Rajasthan province, the home of the beautiful colours and textures echoed in our finished products. Highly acclaimed for its natural beauty, it has long been an indispensable material in many of India’s temples, monuments and palaces, including the Taj Mahal where 10,000 people walk over it […]
The Thames Coromandel District is one of the very few districts in the country mixing biosolids with green waste and turning it into Grade Aa compost with its own Biosolid Composting Facility. “This is an innovative and sustainable outcome of creating a beneficial product from human waste,” says Thames Coromandel District Council Project Manager Rob […]
New bromeliad from breeder McGregor Smith at Russell Fransham Subtropicals: Neoregelia ‘Alyssa’. Unusual form with strongly recurved, layered foliage from an unusually tall stem. Vivid cerise centre for 12 months during flowering. Needs bright shade. A terrific garden specimen, thriving outdoors under trees in frost-free conditions. Named after McGregor’s 3 yr old grand-daughter.
It has been a mild winter for many areas of New Zealand and it looks like an early spring is taking place. Don’t be fooled into thinking all is well as a cold snap can change things very quickly. Last year around this time a number of gardeners got caught planting out tomatoes and other […]
There was widespread concern at the proposed changes to the Resource Management Act at the Environment and Conservation Organisations’ (ECO) Annual Conference which concluded today in Wellington. ECO Spokesperson Barry Weeber said the changes proposed to the Act’s principles by the Technical Advisory Committee are a major assault on the protections for the environment under […]
5 July 2012 The proposed changes to the purpose and principles of the Resource Management Act (RMA) are a major assault on the Act and on sustainable management, said Green Party environment spokesperson Eugenie Sage today. The report released today by the Technical Advisory Group (TAG) outlines substantive changes to the principles […]
5 July, 2012 Environment Minister Amy Adams today released an independent report which considered changes to sections 6 and 7 of the Resource Management Act to address, among other things, management of natural hazards. “After the Canterbury earthquakes, it became clear that consents for subdivisions had been granted without any consideration of the risk of […]
