A winter garden gathering | Celebrating 5 years of Sage Journal with Kath Irvine
A look back at our winter garden gathering with Kath Irvine — celebrating five years of Sage Journal.
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People
Meet the personalities behind the most amazing gardens, businesses and ideas in the world of botany.
A new crop | How a Marlborough farming family blends cut flower & traditional farming
Jo Ensor is blending family life, heritage and a love of horticulture as she transforms part of her Marlborough farm into a thriving cut flower garden — and builds her business, Tyntesfield Blooms.
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Restoring Kaikōmako | The garden that sparked the Secret Gardens garden-share platform
Jane Mahoney shares the story behind Kaikōmako — her ten-year garden project in Corsair Bay, Canterbury, and the beginnings of Secret Gardens.
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Autumn in a subtropical, suburban garden | Insights from a Secret Gardener in Hawke’s Bay
An interview with Secret Gardener, Sue of Texture Garden — a subtropical, suburban garden in Taradale, Hawke's Bay.
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A productive urban garden called Ngā Kaupeka | Autumn insights from a Secret Gardener in Auckland’s North Shore
An interview with Secret Gardener, Phoebe of Ngā Kaupeka — a small-scale, productive garden in Forrest Hill, North Shore, Auckland.
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Bringing order to chaos | A professional garden designer’s own garden
Garden designer Carolyn Campbell transformed a once-overgrown Tawa hillside into a layered, living artwork. A story told in partnership with Resene.
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Autumn colour, feijoas & formal roses in Rangiora | Autumn insights from Secret Gardeners in Canterbury
An interview with Secret Gardeners, Raewyn and Dave of Willoughbridge — an established garden complete with an orchard, large specimen trees and bonsai collection in Rangiora, Canterbury.
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Autumn reflections from a historic homestead garden | Insights from a Secret Gardener in Martinborough
An interview with Secret Gardener, Phillipa of Waihora — a thriving garden for a historic homestead in Martinborough, Wairarapa.
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From backyard to book | Kimberly Andrews on her children’s book, ‘Giraffe the Gardener’
Kimberly Andrews shares how her own garden and other green spaces influenced her latest children’s book, Giraffe the Gardener
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Pottering about the potager | A Waimate cottage garden
Nicola Blunt tends to both her 'zen' and potager gardens in Waimate, South Canterbury. A story told in partnership with Resene.
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The people behind the gardens: Our most-loved stories of 2024
Meet the artists, chefs, winemakers and homesteaders whose love for plants and the land shaped our favourite people-stories of 2024.
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