As a designer it is important design gardens that reflect the client’s personality & needs with added “style and flair”. You need to be able to quickly visualise what’s right for the site and see the end result in relation to the needs and desires (or “brief”) the client conveys. You should then confidently translate […]
Latest updated Trailer < httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BflQ39tgomE A moving and inspiring documentary about one extraordinary family and their life beyond the Ruahine ranges. The head of the family, Peter Karena, is a horse-whisperer, philosopher, hunter and builder, husband and father. Despite seemingly overwhelming challenges, Peter refuses to compromise, and the family turns hardship into a meaningful and […]
Pesticides could decimate New Zealand’s bee population unless the Government takes action, Green MP Sue Kedgley said today. “Bees are vital to our economy, our horticulture, our agriculture and our ecology,” Ms Kedgley said. “We depend on them for about one third of our food, through their role as pollinators.”
Honey company welcomes discovery of manuka tree link to active ingredient The only company to certify the active ingredient in its manuka honey products has welcomed the Waikato University discovery of a compound in New Zealand manuka tree nectar which converts to the honey’s antibacterial constituent. Manuka Health New Zealand chief executive Kerry Paul said […]
Auckland’s coastal environment is set to be further enhanced thanks to a proposed $10 million coastal upgrade programme included in Auckland City Council’s draft 10 year plan. Six coastal areas have been identified for upgrade work, including Judges Bay, the Blockhouse Bay to Onehunga Harbour Walkway, Herne Bay Reserve, Orakei Basin Walkway, Achilles Point and […]
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 […]
The monarch butterfly is a great fascination for gardeners, we just love seeing them flitting around our gardens during the summer months. Some become very worried when they don’t have these butterflies arrive in their gardens, at the expected time each year with no caterpillars on any of the many swan plants, they have specially […]
