Filling gaps in your ornamental garden border with annuals | Spring gardening
A guide to using annuals to fill gaps in your ornamental garden borders. Plus, tips for buying annuals from a garden centre.
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Here, you’ll find stories that explore and celebrate the beauty of places and people found within green spaces. Plus, loads of practical gardening advice and how-tos.
Sold | Tauranga property with English-inspired gardens and river valley views is on the market
Overlooking Tauranga’s Wairoa River Valley, this restored 1930s home combines historic charm and modern comfort, featuring English-inspired gardens, a travertine-paved pool area, 17 potager beds and expansive river valley views.
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The transformation of a coastal garden | Auckland Garden Designfest spotlight
Situated right above Castor Bay Beach, this garden offers stunning views of the bay and will be open to the public during the upcoming Auckland Garden Designfest event in November 2024.
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A landscape of luxury and legacy | Clifton Glamping
At Clifton Glamping, Tom and Lucia Gordon balance luxury accommodation with their dedication to sustainability and reforestation, creating a unique retreat immersed in nature.
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A permaculture way of gardening | The ethics & principles of permaculture
Connie Cao discusses the ethics and principles of permaculture. In recognition of her own garden and new book, Your Asian Veggie Patch.
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Recipe | Green goodness soup
Tracey Bennett’s Green Goodness Soup is packed with wholesome ingredients that you can switch up, depending on the season.
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Recipe | Banana berry ice cream
A healthy and delicious alternative to ice cream - perfect for when you have excess bananas that need to be used. Recipe by Tracey Bennett.
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Recipe | Home-made loaded hashbrowns
A healthy version for a classic comfort food - Tracey Bennett shares her recipe for home-made loaded hashbrowns + her plant-based feta recipe that pairs perfectly as a topping to these hashbrowns.
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October harvest | Almond satay noodle salad + caramalised chilli cashews recipe
12 Oct | What to harvest, eat and plant this month. Plus, to celebrate October's harvest, we're sharing a seasonal salad recipe from Steph Peirce.
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Mid-spring gardening guide | Step-by-step tips for essential spring garden tasks
Mid-spring gardening tips — How-to guides for climbing plants, pricking out and potting on seedlings, and replanting self-seeded seedlings. Written in partnership with Boring® Oat Milk.
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Natural enemies of slugs & snails | The Good Slug Guide
Nature might be helping more than we think when it comes to controlling slugs and snails — if you know where to look.
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A large-scale vegetable garden and permaculture project that brings a community together
This project, led by permaculturist Ben Shaw, transformed part of a rural property into a thriving market garden. It now provides sustainable food for eight families, supporting a small community’s way of living and eating.
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