Friends in focus

A fascination with birds, and photographing them, is an extra layer of delight in Jenny Oakley's Taranaki garden.
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Promoting green life and gardening

Our gardeners survey last month shone a spotlight on the priorities when it comes to promoting greenlife and gardening to would-be new gardeners. The response was overwhelming with 1241 participants, a staggering 13% of readers completed the survey. Our gratitude to all of you who took the time to reply and give your thoughts on this important topic. Thank you! For more detail on what our readers felt were the most important priorities,
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Spectacular Showpiece™ Roses!

These fragrant, disease tolerant, easy care, large and floriferous Showpiece™ shrub roses are from the renowned breeder of the famous Flower Carpet® ground cover roses, and are available in 6 stunning colours: Blush, Berry, Lipstick, Champagne, Orange and new Tangerine.
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National Gardening Week 21 to 28 October

DREAM BIG IN SMALL GARDENS Forget the quarter acre section. With just a patio or small balcony, you can still have a thriving food and flower garden. This National Gardening Week, think about embracing your small space.
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Grow potatoes

As rising food prices and the desire to eat healthier food have many of us turning back to the vege patch, the humble but highly nutritious potato is one of the easiest crops we can grow.
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Growing a fresh spring crunch

After a winter of hearty comfort food, the desire for something with crunch becomes more like a craving. Here's how to grow a non-stop supply of fresh salad greens.
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Grow peas

Peas are favourite winter grown crops and especially fun for kids who are usually delighted to discover that peas actually come from little green packages call pods, not just frozen in plastic bags.
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Grow beautiful tomatoes

To grow beautiful tomatoes you will need - warm sunny weather, good clean soil (or planting mix), seeds or seedlings, stakes, tomato food and water
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Spring inspiration coming this week

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And the magazine has a $500 prize pool of Give a Garden gift cards - five x $100..

Plant a money tree

While we all know money doesn't 'grow on trees', the next best thing may well be to plant a fruit tree. Kate Marshall from Waimea Nurseries looks at the investment opportunity our gardens present us.
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Beauty and abundance

Spring blossom, dappled shade, summer fruit, autumn colour and elegant form - the trees we know as Prunus have lots to offer.
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Blueberries

Grow your own super food. Blueberries are very high in antioxidants and vitamins.
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Make a summer berry barrel

Summer berries can be grown even if you are short on space. This project turns a half barrel or large pot into a portable 'berry patch' featuring three of your favourite climbing berries.
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Inspiration for Kids

A quarterly mini magazine for children containing colour projects and puzzles to encourage the next generation of gardeners.

An audience with The Queen

This 'royal' lavender in a distinguished series of exceptional performers will be courting attention in garden centres this spring.
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The joy of roses

To pick a bunch of fragrant roses from your own garden is one of summer's greatest pleasures, the reward for any effort put in over winter.
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Kids Go Gardening - sow seeds in pots

In spring the soil is damp after winter rain, the weather is getting warmer and we have months of long warm days to come. That makes spring the perfect time for seeds to burst into life!
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Plant swan plant seeds early

This time of year is a great time to sow swan plant or milkweed seeds. There is still enough heat to encourage germination and your plants will have a chance to reach a reasonable size before the cold weather slows them down.
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