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• Autumn delight
• Reflections and plans (with unrelated photos)
• The Chelsea Chop
• “You’ve got mail”
• Seamless transitions – doing away with garden edgings
• Seedling variation
• Summer gardening
• Spot the difference
• Botanical inaccuracy
• “It is a good plant but we don’t need it everywhere”
• Changing plans
• A white Christmas
• Magical moments both here and abroad
• Where did that plant come from?
• Ninfa-ish or Ninfa-esque. Sort of.
• Needs must when drastic pruning is required
• Life amongst death
• Shirley in her garden
• Three gardens (not ours)
• Out and about but just across the bridge in Lepperton
• Of rhododendrons and the roof
• Faffin’ around
• The Yellow Magnolias
• Magnolia time
• Orchids a-plenty
• Of matters related to fertility and sterility
• Spring has sprung
• Found! Maybe the worst plants of the year.
• ‘Doing the broms’
• Then and now. A magnolia (michelia) story.
• Sydney inner city suburbia
• Marking Matariki
• What makes a garden? The wild garden debate.
• A pleasing project
• When your gardening life lacks a handy takahē or two
• Aspidistra! Who knew? I didn’t.
• Remedial action
• Oxalis – by no means all bad
• Dramatic dahlias
• A purple parcel day
• From flowers in the gloom to the Coronation quiche
• Feijoa mania in autumn. Every autumn.
• Notably nerines
• ‘Say it with flowers’
• Road cones on duty
• “His Majesty The King’s Coronation Collection”
• When good plants go feral
• The golden glow of the Veitch
• Summer gardens
• Drainage
• After the cyclone
• The Colour Orange
• Plum Summer
• Marigolds! And a community orchard.
• Summer time
• Golden orbs of summer
• Gardening – more about moments in time than achieving goals
• Meri kirihimete from Aotearoa
• The tussock walkway, one year on.
• Open season
• Nothing at all to do with either foxes or gloves but here we are
• Mix and match
• “You’ve got to know when to go”
• Despatches from our last garden festival
• Counting down to Friday
• Our swan song. Our final festival.
• Lawless lawns
• Hues of lilac
• Drastic pruning
• Scattered observations
• Let there be cake
• Looking at finer detail
• New directions with camellias
• More rain!
• Rays of golden sunshine
• Elevating herbs
• Signs of spring
• Disentangling citrus
• The summer gardens in midwinter
• Counting down to Festival 2022.
• The delight is in the detail
• A little bit of Tikorangi on Corrie
• Nga Puawai o Matariki or The Flowers of Matariki
• New Year New Zealand style – Matariki
• Groomin’ grasses
• Falling trees
• Bye bye bangalow
• When survival of a species rests on a single plant
• Romantic gardening
• The Barricades
• Part two of our very recent trip to Australia with festoons of curtains, bushfire regeneration, she-oaks and a side of snake wisdom
• After more than two years – a trip away
• The Court Garden in early autumn
• Autumn nerines
• Autumn flowering self-seeders
• Three books (one of which has absolutely nothing to do with gardening)
• In partnership with Nature
• A small kingfisher, autumn bulbs and cyclone recovery
• Hit by Cyclone Dovi
• In a world gone mad, there are flowers
• Welcome rain!
• A moderately controversial opinion, in New Zealand at least
• Alstromerias
• Focusing on the detail – Glenys is back
• Toasting the end of 2021 with wild hibiscus flowers
• Seasons Greetings
• Crazy paving
• More a tussock walkway than tussock lands, with a postscript on nativity scenes
• A Wayne in a Manger
• When good plants go rogue
• The exotica of water lilies
• A lucky escape
• Rhododendron season
• 2021 Taranaki Garden Festival in Covid Times
• Gates
• Clip clip clipetty clip. The hedges have been done
• Out and about, in a very limited, local way
• In times of trouble, you will find me in the garden
• Missing tools and found umbrellas
• Prickly matters
• When the detail brings delight, not the devil
• Staying local in my neighbourhood
• Pickled magnolias
• Time for it to go
• A mildly controversial opinion
• From our bubble to yours
• Starting the countdown to festival 2021
• Gardening magazines from nearly 80 years ago
• Giving thanks for when midwinter turns to the cusp of spring
• Nau mai, haere mai. Welcome to Festival 2021
• Building bridges
• Of weather, early magnolias, possums and rats
• Winter has arrived on cue
• The cabinet minister who fell from grace, my late mother-in-law and phallic symbols
• Behind the scenes – winter works
• Gratitude. In shades of yellow on an early winter morn.
• The colours of late autumn
• A latter day Don Quixote
• Mrs Wang’s garden
• Redoing the auratum lily border
• A road trip: from Tikorangi to Tauranga and back. Twice.
• Daphne in white
• From vintage menu cards to prole drift
• The three stages of feijoa season: from anticipation to desperation.
• Casper’s cactus
• Remembering Lara Bingle
• The Pink Pampas
• The tall and the short of it
• When life requires ladders
• The grass report
• The Court Garden after its second summer
• From a tsunami threat and Covid to calliandra and Mark’s low meadow
• The Lost Gardens of Tikorangi
• Garden styles
• A week of paper wasps, fasciated lilies and crocosmia
• The karaka tree
• Lowest, lower, lowish and high maintenance gardening
• The ongoing quest for perfection
• A very ordinary little dog
• Meanwhile, in a New Zealand summer
• Gardeners’ thoughts
• Summer gardens update
• This goes with that. Or sometimes not.
• Meri Kirihimete me te Hape Nū Ia! Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
• Down amongst the graves
• Finding hope
• Anchoring a garden to its location
• The colours of a New Zealand Christmas
• Elegia capenis
• Apparently, almost everybody loves a meadow
• Time for tea
• Stipa gigantea
• That was the week that was.
• Aaand… we are open again
• A freestyle garden
• A short story in four photos
• The 2020 election in flowers. Mostly.
• Generally unenthused by green flowers and other garden observations
• Counting down to Festival – 25 days to go
• Golden orbs
• Spring pinks
• Counting down to festival in the new world of Covid
• Notes from the Garden of Jury – September 13
• When 1+1 equal more that 2. Magnolia parents and offspring.
• The difference between clipping, hacking and blind pruning
• Simple things – appreciating primula species
• All I have to offer are flowers
• Of magnolias, mood lighting and more on Cold Water Surf
• It is August – time for magnolias, laying paths and killing moss
• Spring is in the air ♫ ♫ ♫
• Festival a-go-go
• A story of the magnolia, the mountain and air freshener
• After the arborist
• The summer gardens in midwinter, Boris Johnson and pineapple lumps.
• The marshmallow hues of midwinter flowers
• The winter solstice, Matariki and the start of a new gardening year
• A midwinter rainbow of flowers (and a couple of colourful fruits)
• Seven days from the winter solstice – Tikorangi this week
• Escaped root stock
• Things that go bump in the night
• Paint it black – the wisteria bridge
• Invasive plants
• Autumn, the first magnolia bloom of late winter, a bridge and the lovely tree dahlias
• RIP little Albert
• Week six of lockdown already but gardening continues
• One year on – the Court Garden
• To dead head or not to dead head, that is the question
• Farewell poor Felix. We knew thee well.
• Meet Albert
• When is a wild garden too wild to be comfortable?
• Green breathing space
• Pictorial or immersive gardens (part 2) – mostly immersive style because that is what interests us more
• Pictorial vs immersive gardens. Part one (subtitled: the trip we can no longer make)
• Lockdown day 9: ennui, rats and the Old Masters
• Lock down day 7 – about personal space
• Lock down day 5 and the first camellia blooms of the season
• Day 3 of lock down and a minor mystery is solved
• Day one of lock down
• The weeks that come may very well be worse than the week that was but there are always flowers
• Theatre set design in the garden
• The first autumn blooms and the journey to gardening nirvana
• Dispensing with the big pond
• Another week in the garden of Jury
• Reopening the garden after seven years
• A last resort – getting in a digger
• Summer thoughts
• Some flowers of summer
• Managing weeds in herbaceous plantings. Vigilance is the key.
• Win some, lose some
• Aurelians, Asiatics, Auratums, Orientals and other flowers of the graveyard
• Raspberry nostalgia
• Watching Australia Burn
• Spot the difference
• Seasons greetings 2019
• From the nurseryman’s pen – the yellow pohutukawa
• Way up high, where the birds fly
• Down in the water meadows, the Higo iris bloom
• Seven long years to bloom and then it dies – Cardiocrinum giganteum
• Tikorangi Notes: underplanting, gardening with perennials and the magnificent nuttalliis
• Farewell Noble Fir
• Trees – some for removal, some that should never have been removed and one that is not going to be removed
• Six years on: meadow update
• Knitted smallgoods!
• Tikorangi Notes: a folk art garden, bearded irises, macadamia nuts and a bit of advice
• Plants that disappoint
• Tikorangi notes: this, that and the next thing too.
• Planting a perennial meadow
• The bamboo harvest
• Tikorangi notes: Iceland poppies are not from Iceland, naturalising trilliums, bluebells and escaping root stock
• The tale of Sir Francis Drake’s small balls
• Planning a trip
• Drowning the planet in plastic
• Sad thoughts on camellias
• A touch of Africa in Waitara
• The magnoliafication of our local town
• The trouble with daffodils
• Learning botanical art in practice
• The plant breeder’s garden
• Tikorangi notes: narcissi, garden edgings and a happy plant breeder
• On the right track, at least
• From cob to cracker
• Started at last – a perennial meadow
• A tribute to the mountain – despite its lack of bears
• Matrix planting – a skill worth pursuing
• A forgotten resource
• Botanical art for beginners in the garden here
• When your lawnmower is worth more – a lot more – than your car
• Tikorangi Notes: a top-knot hedge, magnolia time, soy milk and tofu (because we are multi-faceted gardeners here)
• Rabbit onslaught
• Waiting for hippeastrum flowers
• A celebration of bright light and the start of a new year of gardening
• Epiphytes and ponga logs
• Of gnomes and statues
• Thugs in the garden
• The early camellias
• Treemageddon. Again.
• Suddenly it is winter
• Glitter gardening (may not be quite what you think)
• About climate change
• A week of determined gardening
• The ornamental oxalis
• Planting the new court garden
• Autumn is icumen in
• The Foetus Tree
• Postcards of Melbourne
• A visit to Cloudehill Gardens
• Haute couture on a cold and wet Saturday in Melbourne
• A day at the Melbourne Flower Show
• From scratch – the caterpillar garden
• New Zealand in shock
• Back from a near death experience – an obscure fig
• Covering the ground – our free mulching options
• Saving my best for last – Auckland Heroic gardens part 2.
• Auckland Heroic gardens. Part one (of two)
• A cautionary tale (with advice for active gardeners)
• Room for improvement at a major tourist site
• Lagerfeld Rules – should he ever turn his attention to gardening
• A somewhat disappointing afternoon. Summer gardens in Auckland – part one.
• It’s all in the detail
• “The ulmus must go!” Vegetative time bombs
• Plant collector – Tecoma stans (with an aside on a hot week)
• Along the verges – midsummer on North Taranaki roadsides
• Summer flowers – tigridias and crocosmias
• Lily time in the Garden of Jury
• Not 5+ a day any longer, 25 different per week
• Found! Our summer garden.
• I cannae do cannas, myself
• I have measured out my year in flowers, not my life in coffee spoons (as did J Alfred Prufrock)
• Seasons Greetings
• The New Zealand Christmas Tree (but not all are equal)
• The meadow, as we enter its sixth year
• Fashion vs style
• What a difference a year makes (flowering through 12 months)
• Novice gardening
• Not just from Siberia – the sibirican irises
• The somewhat extraordinary Queensland spear lily
• Blurred lines
• Gardening with our native flora
• Foxgloves – the fine line between weed, wildflower and garden plant
• About gardening at the edges – edging options
• Hello and goodbye, Ammi majus
• Just another week in the Garden of Jury – late spring, umbrellas and bird’s nest or two
• Hello vibrant colours
• Out and about
• Does ‘Hit the Deck’ work?
• To deadhead or not to deadhead, that is the question
• Rhododendron season – two generations of breeding
• A graveyard and memories of miniature gardens and sand saucers
• The later flowering lachenalias
• Notes from the Garden of Jury, September 30, 2018
• Starting with a paper plan
• Hellebore update
• Tikorangi notes: a week of pests and petals
• Felix’s magnolias on a glorious spring morn
• In praise of petal carpets
• Learning from experience: gardening with bigger grasses in NZ conditions
• An unexpected consequence
• Conference garden tours, then and now
• The glyphosate debate
• Garden lore: seasonal garden advice
• Change of plan
• Garden lore: protecting arms
• Suddenly it’s spring
• Different light. Different colours. Canberra in mid winter.
• A visit to Sydney Botanic Gardens
• A day in the life of the magnolia and te maunga
• Not just a fossil after all – the wollemi pine.
• In search of more unusual plants
• Tikorangi Notes: Flowers great and small. With added lemons.
• The weight of epiphytes
• A quilted flower
• When a handle is a thing of beauty
• Our winner in the white camellia stakes – C. yuhsienensis
• Garden thoughts
• Blooms to sweeten a winter’s day – luculia
• Found! Low maintenance gardening (of a sort)
• A garden for all seasons
• Today is brought to you… by the colour orange
• Lessons learned
• A Week in the Garden of Jury
• The times, they are a-demandin’ change
• The death of a living legend – RIP Beth Chatto
• Despatches from the frontline in Tikorangi Gaslands
• What a difference a year makes
• Pensive thoughts on a rainy Saturday
• The autumn camellias
• Another one bites the dust
• Originality – a rare quality
• ‘A sense of arrival’
• “But it’s not native so it is expendable”
• The making of gardens, old and new
• From the crowds of WOMAD to the peace at home
• Daisy, daisy
• More on belladonnas
• The end of the long, hot summer is nigh
• Requiem for a tree
• The latest casualty in the ongoing saga of treemageddon
• Give me colour, please.
• Late summer inspirations from the graveyard
• Plant Collector: Backhousia citriodora or the lemon myrtle
• Classic style statuary in New Zealand gardens – yes or no?
• The peculiar affliction of gardeners’ godwottery
• Semi vegetarianism. Or low meat consumers, at least.
• The garden of many colours
• Gone by lunchtime.
• The two colour garden (plus green)
• Colour themes for gardens – the single colour choice
• More than fifty shades of grey
• Summer gardens – the starting point
• We be diggers here.
• Looking forward to 2018
• A gardening year in retrospect. 2017
• An antipodean Christmas greeting
• White frou frou, shades of green and jute twine
• The bakelite Holy Family for an antipodean Christmas
• Reflections on dyed water and dead water.
• Mark’s story
• Biennials, are they worth the effort, he asked.
• The ongoing saga of Stachys Bella Grigio
• Tikorangi Notes: Things that go crash in the night, recommended hostas and our pretty meadow
• A love-hate affair with rose bushes continues
• For the love of umbellifers
• Plant Collector: Jade Cascade
• My new weeding friend
• The modest tea harvest
• Dudley and the new season’s avocado crop
• Clipping the michelias
• Plant Collector: Malus ioensis ‘Plena’ – (Betchel Crabapple)
• Plant Collector: the good and the bad of nandina
• Togs, togs, togs. Undies! A post that is not about gardening.
• Canberra’s candyfloss cornus
• City trees. An asset, not a liability
• I just don’t get it.
• Tulips from Floriade (as opposed to Amsterdam)
• Meadow, meadow. Three meadow styles.
• The unexpected romance of an olive grove
• But where are the panda bears?
• New Wave Hedging
• White gardens for the new age
• Shades of white in the world of flower gardens
• Why so very grey, New Zealand?
• Vegeconomy
• FAQs, as they are called. Magnolia questions answered.
• Rubbish in the magnolias
• A cardboard tower and memories of cartons
• The changing face of Kings Cross – the London one.
• Bluebells in a New Zealand springtime
• Greening the Grey
• A day at Wisley
• More naturalistic than wild at Wildside
• The sweet beet conundrum
• Impressions of Parham – horticultural excellence
• The garden at Bury Court
• Postcards of Devon
• The colour purple. Magnolia Lanarth
• IMO* Green waste
• The Jury magnolia legacy – first published in the RHS Rhododendrons, Camellias and Magnolias 2017 yearbook
• A perfect garden?
• Advice on the matter of gardening gloves
• A garden destination for all tastes and expectations? Trentham in Stoke-on-Trent
• Dear New Zealand, fences do not have to look like this
• The Missouri Meadow in 2009, 2014 and 2017 (Part 3 of observations on the Sheffield School genre)
• Naturalism or prairie-style at Olympic Park (part 2 on the Sheffield School of planting)
• Around the Barbican (part one of observations on the Sheffield School of planting)
• A modern French garden – Le Jardin Plume
• Postcards of Normandy
• I found the hollyhocks!
• Mostly Villas d’Este and Adriana – Postcards of Italy 2.
• Quaker Mason, the magnolia and our maunga
• Postcards of Italy
• A gardener’s pilgrimage to Ninfa
• Despatches from Camembert
• The old and the new. Roof tiles in Italy.
• A rental car in Italy
• Shady broms
• Up, up and away. In search of modern romantic gardens.
• Just a recipe – delicious cheese puffs reputed to be of Brazilian origin
• Thoughtful garden media and the (belated) fall from grace of a garden celeb
• Panic in the myrtles
• Reinterpreting inspiration. The new garden progresses.
• Pink and white detail – species cyclamen.
• “A garden is really the gardener”
• You Should Have Been Here Last Week by Tim Richardson
• Treading more lightly on the land
• Tikorangi notes: the calm before the storm
• The Ballad of Roading Steve
• “Fell the trees” is the cry.
• The slow autumn fade
• Ah. The nostalgia of the knitted dishcloth
• A colchicum is not an autumn crocus
• A sense of place
• A touch of Tikorangi around the world
• Up the ladder
• On dry land – Christmas in Canberra
• “It’s very personal”
• From the air – then and now
• A boy and his tent
• A garden of grasses. Mostly.
• For the sake of the birds
• Weeding the stream. Again. An ongoing task.
• Garden diary February 5, 2017 – all about flowers this week
• Garden diary, January 31, 2017. Radio, geckos, summer flowers and a tour in the rain.
• A melon mystery solved at the Otara markets
• Garden lore: don’t do this at home
• Garden diary, January 22, 2017: weather bombs and little green apples
• The story of Theo’s ‘nake
• Garden Diary: January 15, 2017 – trees that are no more, pond weed, Maxim Brussels sprouts and the like
• Plant collector: Schizophragma hydrangeoides pink and white
• Our garden diary this week – from new year resolutions to lilies … to fracking (and bits in between). 09 January, 2017
• Summer iris
• We’d rather drink the gin than spray it on weeds, thanks.
• Christmas greetings
• Things that fall from above
• When joy is not too strong word
• The flowering bulbs of mid December
• A water meadow
• About a meadow. An update.
• Tikorangi Notes – of earthquakes, tree ferns and a meadow experiment
• Hosta Time
• Garden Lore – when renga renga lilies go bad.
• Witches’ broom in the graveyard
• Plant Collector: Calycanthus floridus
• Garden Lore – slugs, snails and baits
• Feathered friends
• The season of the clivia
• Tikorangi Notes: Sunday October 9, 2016
• A morning in the graveyard
• A book worth buying – The Sceptical Gardener
• The chainsaw mentality
• But where is the vision today? In Canberra. Apparently.
• Flagging away the flag iris
• The perfect dish of Brussels sprouts
• Plants that do not know their place – high maintenance culprits
• The Evolution of a Garden
• Urban living – Magnolia grandiflora ‘Little Gem’ and wheelie bins
• After a wait of 17 years – flowers!
• Why do so many New Zealanders hate trees?
• Reticulata camellias – from China with passion
• Garden urns, pots and fonts
• “Not exactly the Trevi Fountain” – statuary in the New Zealand garden
• The start of a new gardening year – Magnolia campbellii
• Evergreen azaleas – unsung garden heroes
• A Mid-Winter’s Day in Tikorangi
• Tikorangi notes – winter, reversions and grubby knees
• The saga of Yucca whipplei
• The Golden Camellias of China and Vietnam
• Camellia stars
• Conversation on Radio Live
• The Final Postcards of China – a land of contrast
• A Red Letter Day
• Postcards of China 4 – rocks, *improving vehicles* and plants, both ubiquitous and not
• Glimpses of magnolia in China
• Stumperies – an ecological option
• Plant Collector: Camellia amplexicaulis
• Postcards of China 3: Food!
• Postcards of China 2: Xishuangbanna area
• Rekindling childhood memories of chestnuts
• Rock on – our rockery in autumn
• Postcards of China 1.
• Plant Collector: bauhinia
• An award!
• From China – the wheelbarrow
• Our worst weeds
• A trip to Baotai Mount
• Tikorangi notes: Off to China!
• Simple pleasures – hydrangeas in summer
• Plants for dry shade – for Radio Live listeners and others
• ‘Editing’ the plants for a lower maintenance garden
• Garden lore: chainsaw pruning
• Plant UNcollector – the tale of our disappointing white nepeta
• On the verges
• Tikorangi Notes: January 10, 2016. Gardening this week.
• Welcoming in the new year:2016
• Seasons greetings
• Bridge crossings – sometimes over water
• A water meadow! Tikorangi Notes: December 17, 2015
• Out and about today
• The curious arisaemas
• Banishing large container plants
• A call for help
• The colours of November
• Sydney notes: Friday 13 November, 2015
• Clivias, with a sidetrack onto green flowers.
• TV gardening
• An abundance of spring bloom
• A glut. Yes, a glut of avocados.
• Exotica in the shade
• Tikorangi notes: THAT yucca, wretched geissorhiza and the close of magnolia season.
• The industrial chic garden
• Plant collector: the curious native Muehlenbeckia astonii
• When saying it with flowers becomes a political statement
• Tikorangi notes: hellebores (again), fallen tree (another one), the daffodil show and Heart of Darkness
• Petal Pushers – the Jury Michelias
• Pink and yellow. Together.
• Garden lore – three hedging ideas for 2015
• Do we take the award for the prettiest roadsides this week?
• Pretty hellebores
• Full o’ beans
• Lachenalias part one: the early bloomers
• The silver fern
• The Magnolia and the Maunga (or Mountain)
• All the reds
• Tui, kereru and korimako
• Tikorangi Notes: August 4, 2015. Spring flowers, Franchi seeds, a new spade and the Magnolia and the Cross
• The cordylines on Devon St and Devon Rd
• “Garden flowers preferred”
• The magnolia and the mountain
• Garden lore: July 20, 2015 Petal blight, white camellia hedges and winter pruning
• Magic carpet
• Winter whites
• The Avocado Thief
• “The Holy Grail of horticulture”
• Farewell to a friend
• Plant Collector: Chamaedorea woodsoniana
• Garden Lore: “Touch the earth lightly”
• Not quite lawn-free but leaning more to meadows
• Flood!
• Tikorangi Notes: Friday 19 June, 2015
• Gone in a morning – the loss of the Waitara riverbank pohutukawa
• Lavender and cricket
• Tikorangi Notes: June 11, 2015 From Nerine bowdenii to homeopathic gins
• Tikorangi notes: the surprise success of dried persimmons
• Tikorangi Notes: the virtues of little green apples
• When near enough is not far enough
• Her last butterfly (of the season)
• Late Bloomers – the tree dahlias in autumn
• Tramps in the garden. Trampolines, for the avoidance of doubt.
• Introducing (drum roll please) Daphne Perfume Princess
• Garden lore: another use for gingko leaves
• A specious and fallacious argument
• Human design vs nature’s ways
• A brief diversionary activity for moments of extreme boredom
• Garden adornment
• Garden lore – the autumn trim of the hellebores
• The April garden – vireya rhododendrons
• An understated beauty – autumn seed heads
• Sole survivor – Tecomanthe speciosa
• Taonga. The Yellow Pōhutukawa on the Waitara River Bank
• More harvest than festival
• Flowers from an early autumn Easter weekend
• From foxgloves* to foxtail lilies – eremurus
• Schooling the foxgloves
• Keeping our monarchs at home
• Garden Lore: Another tree falls
• Tikorangi Notes: Sunday March 15, 2015 Mostly about saving native trees
• Bamboo but where are the panda bears?
• Garden lore: The Agapanthus Conundrum
• Heroic despatches 4: A Restful Green Heart
• Despatches from Heroic Garden Festival 3: Gaudi-esque meets Hollywood glam
• February in the garden
• Not Exactly Italy. Despatches from Heroic Garden Festival 2.
• Mid summer gardens. Despatches from the Heroic Gardens Festival 1
• Something to see here – garden mirrors
• Tikorangi Notes: Thursday 12 February, 2015 Wildflowers or weeds?
• Lessons from the Tikorangi Gaslands
• Tikorangi Notes, Feb 8, 2015: In search of a missing tennis ball
• Plant Collector: Z is for habranthus
• The utilitarian washing line in the garden
• My farewell message to Waikato Times readers
• The Return of the Red Hot Poker
• Plant Collector: the cream poinsettia
• Garden Lore Friday 23 January, 2015
• The January Garden
• Garden lore: Friday 16 January, 2015
• Outdoor Classroom: twin scaling
• A forest of cycads
• Plant Collector – Brachychiton
• Garden Lore: Friday 9 January, 2015
• Garden decoration 2: contemporary colour and bold statements
• Garden lore January 2, 2015
• Stumperies for shaded areas
• Plant Collector – campanula
• Garden lore: Friday 26 December, 2014
• December in the garden
• Oh Christmas tree, oh Christmas tree
• Garden lore: a Flower Fairy Christmas
• Solastalgia – the story of our corner and changing times
• From New Plymouth, New Zealand to Plymouth, England
• Plant Collector – Higo Iris and Primula helodoxa
• Saturday morning at the Christmas tree farm
• Garden Lore: Friday 12 December, 2014
• Garden decoration 1: leaning to the understated look
• Garden Lore: Friday 5 December, 2014
• Treemageddon
• When less may be more – restraint with focal points
• Garden Lore: Friday 28 November, 2014
• Plant Collector: Strelitzia reginae
• Wildside – the new naturalism in gardening
• Garden Lore: Friday 21 Nov, 2014
• The November Garden – rose time
• Don Quixote Gardens
• Plant Collector: Davidia involucrata
• Garden Lore: Friday November 14, 2014
• A Place to Sit and Contemplate
• Garden Lore: Friday November 7, 2014
• Romantic Gardens (part 2) – the grand, historic and famous
• Garden Lore Friday 31 October
• All About Roses by Diana Sargeant
• The Giverny Experience – Monet’s Garden
• For those in need of a little support
• Garden Lore: Friday 24 October, 2014
• Plant Collector: Doronicum orientale
• The October Garden
• The Romantic Garden (part 1)
• Garden Lore: Friday 17 October, 2014
• The Splendour of the Tree by Noel Kingsbury
• Stepping up and stepping down
• Plant Collector: Kerria japonica “Pleniflora”
• Japanese simplicity
• Peak bluebell!
• Garden Lore – witches’ broom
• Pink bluebells
• Garden lore: Friday 26 September
• Established espalier
• Petal carpets, the garden in September
• Points of interest
• Plant Collector: Magnolia Iolanthe
• Garden Lore: Friday 19 September, 2014
• At the stake
• Garden Lore: Friday 12 September
• The Cottage Garden
• Plant Collector: Romneya coulteri
• The 1-Minute Gardener by Fabian Capomolla and Mat Pember
• Sit down, why don’t you?
• Garden Lore: Friday 29 August, 2014
• Dig Deeper by Meredith Kirton
• Backyard Bees, A guide for the beginner beekeeper
• Tikorangi roads, traffic and about that speed limit
• A host of golden narcissi
• Garden Lore: Friday 22 August, 2014
• 100 best native plants for New Zealand gardens by Fiona Eadie
• Floral Skypaper – the garden in August
• The Meadow
• Garden Lore: Friday 15 August
• Grasses, anyone?
• Plant Collector: Hellebore Anna’s Red
• Garden Lore: Friday 8 August, 2014
• Modern directions in perennial planting patterns
• Garden lore: Friday August 1, 2014
• Plant Collector: Carpenteria californica
• All for show? Not necessarily
• Garden lore: Friday 25 July, 2014
• Pink & white parade
• Edging garden borders
• Garden Lore: Friday July 18, 2014
• Westward ho!
• Plant Collector: Fuchsia boliviana
• A retirement garden from scratch
• Garden lore: Friday 11 July, 2014
• Digging and dividing clivias
• Garden Lore, Friday 4 July, 2014
• Plant Collector: Rhododendron augustinii
• “My tree will stop growing when it reaches 3 metres, won’t it?”
• Garden lore: Friday 27 June, 2013
• Retaining walls
• Garden lore: June 20, 2014
• A fossil, but very much alive – Ginkgo biloba
• Garden Lore: Friday 13 June, 2014
• Plant Collector: Narcissus bulbocodium var. citrinus ‘Pandora’
• Fencing options for urban gardens (probably part 1 of several)
• Garden Lore: Friday 6 June, 2014
• Autumn bulbs
• Farewell to the trees
• Garden Lore: Friday 30 May, 2014
• Plant Collector – sasanqua camellias
• Outdoor Classroom: multiplying succulents
• Garden Lore: Friday May 23, 2014
• Singing the praises of blue flowers
• Garden Lore: Friday 16 May, 2014
• Plant Collector: Medlar (Mespilus germanica)
• The good and the bad of gardening suburbia
• Autumn hues
• Garden Lore: Friday 9 May, 2014
• The fascination of fungi
• Plant Collector: Nerine pudica
• Garden Lore: Friday May 2, 2014
• The Jury Camellia Legacy
• Garden Lore Friday 25 April, 2014
• Outdoor Classroom: Sowing seed in trays
• An Easter legend – the Glastonbury thorn
• Future New Zealand – the Simon Bridges and National Government vision
• Windflower romance
• Plant Collector: Hibiscus probably trionum
• Garden Lore: Friday 11 April, 2014
• Autumn seed
• Garden lore: Friday April 4, 2014
• What price public accountability and garden reviews?
• Plant Collector: Amaranthus caudatus
• Garden lore: Friday 28 March, 2014
• Garden Lore: Friday 21 March, 2014
• Outdoor Classroom: Layering plants
• Continuing the quest to get to grips with perennials
• Garden Lore: Friday 14 March, 2014
• Plant Collector: Chaenomeles
• Perennials for late summer colour
• Garden Lore: Friday 7 March, 2014
• Plant Collector: Dietes grandiflora
• Garden lore: Friday 28 February, 2014
• The folly of the quest for garden perfection
• Gardening 101: Dividing perennials
• Rather too much winter firewood has arrived
• Plant Collector: Corymbia ficifolia
• Garden Lore: February 14, 2014
• A very public garden
• Plant Collector: Agave attenuata
• Garden Lore: Friday 7 February 2014
• Plant Collector: Streptocarpus
• Garden style
• Garden Lore Friday Jan 31 ,2013
• January bulbs for mid summer
• Plant Collector: Tigridia pavonia
• Garden Lore: Friday 24 January, 2014
• Climbing and clambering clematis
• Plant Collector: Crocosmia “Lucifer”
• Garden lore Friday 17 January, 2014
• Welcome to 2014, Tikorangi!
• Plant collector: Aurelian lilies
• Garden Lore: Friday 10 January, 2014
• The answer truly lies in the soil
• Plant Collector: Justicia carnea alba
• Garden Lore: Friday January 3, 2014
• New Year’s Gardening Resolutions for 2014
• Plant Collector: Pachystegia insignis
• Toxic plants and natural remedies
• Garden Lore: Friday 27 December, 2013
• Ideas for very small gardens
• Plant Collector: Nerium oleander
• Garden Lore: Friday 20 December
• Rich Fruit Wreath – Alison Holst’s super Christmas wreath recipe
• The call of gardening in less hospitable situations
• Plant Collector: Swainsona formosa
• Garden Lore: Friday 13 December
• Plant Collector: Rosa Mme Plantier
• Bulb meadows
• Garden lore: December 6, 2013
• Plant Collector: Rhododendron sino nuttallii
• Maples in the garden
• Garden lore: Friday November 29, 2013
• Plant Collector: Tall Bearded Iris “Black Suited”
• Stripes, splashes and edges – variegated plants
• Garden lore: Friday 22 November 2013
• Plant Collector: Ornithogalum arabicum
• Irises – named for the Greek goddess of rainbows
• Garden Lore: Friday 15 November
• Where to start? Childhood success in gardening
• Garden lore: Friday November 8, 2013
• Plant Collector: Staghorn fern or Platycerium
• Why viburnums send a shiver down Mark’s spine
• The Essential Plant Guide
• Garden Lore: Friday 1 November, 2013
• Plant Collector: Ranunculus cortusifolius
• About tanalised timber in the veg garden…
• Garden Lore: Friday 25 October, 2013
• Plant Collector: Telopea (probably speciosissima) or Australian waratah
• The merits of mulch
• Garden lore: Friday 18 October, 2013
• Cumulative Effects (of Petrochemical Development)
• Plant Collector: Dendrobium Bardo Rose
• Better in theory than practice – planting street berms in edibles
• Garden Lore: Friday 11 October
• Low(ish) maintenance shade gardening
• Plant Collector: Trillium sessile
• Garden Lore: Friday 4 October, 2013
• Big Ideas for Small Gardens – Clever ways to enhance New Zealand outdoor spaces
• The Yellow Magnolias and Honey Tulip
• Plant Collector: Camellia minutiflora
• Garden Lore: September 27, 2013
• Plant Collector: Onixotis triqueta
• Pruning and shaping
• Garden lore: Friday 20 September, 2013
• Tulips, but not from Amsterdam
• Plant Collector: Daphne genkwa
• Garden lore: Friday September 13 , 2013
• Descending into farce: Tikorangi Newsletter no.4
• Tikorangi News 3: September 8, 2013
• The story of the red magnolias
• Tikorangi Newsletter 2. August 30, 2013
• The tyranny of monocultural gardening
• Plant Collector: Magnolia Manchu Fan
• Garden lore: Friday 30 August, 2013
• The pros and cons of the campanulata cherries
• Plant Collector: Aloe ferox
• Garden lore: Friday 23 August, 2013
• Tropical gardens re-created in Asian hotel-style
• Plant Collector: Rhododendron ‘Pukeiti’
• Garden lore: Friday 16 August, 2013
• The Winter Garden
• Garden lore: August 2, 2013
• Plant Collector: vriesea
• Flower Carpet Roses
• Plant Collector: Cycas revoluta
• Garden lore: Friday 26 July, 2013
• Food forests – fashion trend or sound option?
• Plant Collector: Daphne bholua
• Garden lore: Friday 19 July, 2013
• Fruit hedges
• Plant Collector: Galanthus S Arnott
• Garden lore: Friday 12 July
• Reviewing roses
• Plant collector: Nandina domestica ‘Richmond’
• The ha-ha reinterpreted
• What about *land farms* then?
• My favourite white camellias
• Plant Collector: Lachenalia aloides quadricolor
• Garden lore: Friday June 28, 2013
• Know thine species
• Garden lore: Friday 21 June, 2013
• Plant Collector: zygocactus or Schlumbergera (probably truncata hybrid)
• A flurry of feathers*
• Managing garden maintenance
• Plant Collector: Guichenotia ledifolia
• Garden lore: June 14, 2013
• Garden lore: Friday 7 June, 2013
• Stripes, hedges and gardening on the flat
• Plant Collector: Pyrostegia venusta
• Plant Collector: Monstera deliciosa
• Begone edging plants!
• Garden lore, Friday 31 May, 2013
• Plant Collector : Persimmons (Diospyros kaki, probably “Hachiya”)
• Our world of azaleas here
• Garden lore May 24, 2013
• Gardening crimes against nature
• Plant Collector: Astelia solandri
• Garden lore: Friday 17 May, 2013
• Plant Collector: tree dahlias
• Garden lore: May 10, 2013
• Magnolia – Michelia: the evergreens
• Out of the box
• Fruity facts (pragmatism over romance)
• Plant Collector: Dichroa versicolour
• Garden lore: Friday 3 May, 2013
• A prickly tale – plants doubling as burglar deterrents
• Plant Collector: Koelreuteria paniculata
• Garden lore Friday April 19, 2013
• A Case of the Emperor’s New Clothes?
• Our towering pines
• Plant Collector – Acer griseum
• Garden Lore: Friday 12 April, 2013
• At the end of a golden summer come the autumn bulbs
• Plant Collector: Syagrus romanzoffiana
• Garden Lore: Friday 5 April, 2013
• A gem of a garden
• Plant Collector: Cyclamen hederifolium
• Banned plants in New Zealand
• Garden lore, Friday March 22, 2013
• The Jury Magnolias from New Zealand
• Plant Collector: Lilium formasanum
• Reviewing summer garden choices, as the drought worsens
• Garden Lore March 15, 2013
• Plant Collector: Calliandra, probably eriophylla
• About the butterflies and the bees
• Garden lore March 8, 2013
• Tikorangi News
• Garden lore: Friday 1 March, 2013
• Plant Collector: Nerine filifolia
• Allotments and community gardens
• The Lost Gardens of Christchurch
• Plant Collector: Nolina syn. Beaucarnia recurvata
• Garden lore: Friday 22 February, 2013
• Plant Collector: Hydrangea quercifolia “Snowflake”
• Gardening on a steep slope
• Garden lore: Friday 15 February, 2013
• Garden lore, Friday February 8, 2013
• Plant Collector: blandfordia (February bells here)
• The Chelsea chop comes to New Zealand
• Saving Tikorangi – what could Councils do?
• Tikorangi Lost – how a little community is being sacrificed to the petrochemical dollar
• Blue sky gardening rather than feeling blue
• Plant collector: Jacaranda mimosifolia
• Garden lore: Friday 1 February, 2013
• Not one but three new Jury magnolias this year
• Plant collector: Eryngium planum
• The answer, as they say, lies in the soil
• Garden lore Friday 25 January, 2013
• Plant Collector: Solandra longiflora
• Cover the ground
• Garden lore: January 18, 2013
• A Tale of Two Plants
• Cicely’s gardens
• Plant Collector: Cordyline stricta
• Garden lore January 11, 2013
• Plant Collector: Hydrangea serrata “Preziosa”
• Lower maintenance gardening
• Garden lore January 4, 2013
• Meadows, prairies and wildflower gardens
• Plant Collector: Dicentra eximia alba
• Garden lore, December 28, 2012
• Letter to the Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment
• A pedestrian matter
• Garden Lore: December 21 2012
• The Terminator of the World of Weeds?
• Plant Collector: Hydrangea indochinensis
• Garden lore Rev Samuel Hole
• The outdoor dining and entertaining conundrum
• Plant Collector: Cardiocrinum giganteum
• Garden lore December 7, 2012
• The vexing issue of underplanting
• Plant Collector: Kalmia latifolia “Nipmuck”
• Garden lore Gertrude Jekyll
• Modernist gardening, modern gardens and contemporary design
• Contemporary Gardens of New Zealand by Carol Bucknell, photography by Sally Tagg
• Plant Collector: Ananas sagenaria
• Garden lore
• But where are the hollyhocks?
• Plant Collector: Gesneria cardinalis
• Garden lore
• Ayrlies, by Beverley McConnell
• The generosity of some gardeners and the vandalism by non gardeners
• Plant Collector: Deutzia x rosea
• Garden lore, November 9, 2012
• The last day of Festival 2012
• The late spring bulbs
• Plant Collector – celmisia
• Garden lore November 2, 2012
• Powerco Taranaki Garden Spectacular update
• Powerco Taranaki Garden Spectacular – day 4
• Powerco Taranaki Garden Spectacular- day 2
• Powerco Taranaki Garden Spectacular
• Meet the maddenii rhododendrons
• Plant Collector: Rhododendron Rubicon
• Garden Lore
• For the love of wisteria
• Plant Collector: Rhodohypoxis
• Garden lore Julian Barnes
• Outdoor Classroom – pruning wisteria
• The high cost of “regional gardens”
• Plant Collector: Satyrium corrifolium
• The potential folly of the phalanx planting
• Garden lore Charles Barr
• Plant Collector: Prunus x yedoensis ‘Ivensii’ with collospermum
• Of slugs and snails but no puppy dogs’ tails
• Garden lore Celia Thaxter
• Plant Collector: Narcissus jonquilla and Narcissus bulbocodium
• Weeding – just like outdoor vaccum cleaning, really
• Garden lore Henry Beard
• Yates Garden Problem Solver
• No problems with petrochem development in Taranaki????
• Orchids as garden plants
• Plant Collector: Magnolia laevifolia “Velvet and Cream”
• Garden lore
• The Illustrated Guide to Ducks and Geese and other Domestic Fowl
• Living in petrochemical heartland
• Reviewing accepted garden practice
• Garden Tours. A Visitor’s Guide to 50 Top New Zealand Gardens
• Plant Collector: Erythronium revolutum
• Garden lore – on weather and pruning
• Repetition – unifying a garden or downright dull?
• Tikorangi Notes: Friday 7 September, 2012
• Plant Collector: Magnolia Burgundy Star
• Garden Lore – wisdom from the past and hints from the present
• Tikorangi Diary Friday August 31, 2012
• Plant Collector: Corylopsis pauciflora
• Lynda Hallinan’s year in her country garden
• Garden lore – a collection of garden hints and quotes
• More Tikorangi tui – in Prunus Te Mara this week
• Dealing with maturity (in garden terms)
• New post on Magnolia Diary.
• Magnolia Diary 15 (but the first for 2012) August 26, 2012
• Tikorangi Notes: Friday 24 August, 2012
• Biodynamics – the homeopathy of the gardening world
• Plant Collector: Narcissus x Odorus
• Garden lore: a collection of quotes and hints
• Tikorangi Notes: Thursday 23 August, 2012
• Tikorangi Tui tui tui
• Be bold with colour. White is not always right.
• Garden lore: a collection of quotes and hints
• Plant Collector: Camellia Sweet Jane
• Tikorangi Notes: Friday 10 August, 2012
• Plant Collector: Acer Senkaki or A. 'Sango-kaku'
• A blight upon your camellias
• Grow it Yourself: courgettes (the final in this series)
• Tikorangi Notes: Friday 3 August, 2012
• Tikorangi Notes: Friday 27 July, 2012
• The curse of the narcissus fly
• Plant collector : Helleborus x sternii
• Grow it Yourself: runner beans
• Tikorangi notes: Friday July 20, 2012
• Modern perennial plantings – more in the style of Braque than Mondrian
• Plant Collector – Pennantia baylisiana (they don't come any more endangered than this ONE was)
• Grow it Yourself – cauliflower
• Tikorangi Notes: Friday 13 July, 2012
• Renovating the rose garden
• Plant Collector: Narcissus bulbocodium citrinus “Pandora”
• Grow it Yourself: tamarillos
• Fragrant rhododendrons
• Tikorangi Notes: Friday July 6, 2012
• Plant Collector – Helleborus orientalis
• Reviewing the role of container plants here
• Grow it youself: celery
• THE FINAL In the garden this fortnight: Thursday 5 July, 2012
• Outdoor Classroom – how to sharpen garden tools
• A little bit of Tikorangi at Clarence House
• More mid winter delight than harbinger of spring – galanthus (snowdrops)
• Plant Collector: bilbergia
• Grow it yourself: Oriental radishes
• Stop Press: Magnolia Black Tulip in another Royal garden
• Tikorangi Notes: Friday 22 June, 2012
• Early flowering camellias
• In the garden this fortnight: June 21, 2012
• Outdoor Classroom (for absolute beginners): how to plant a tree
• The garden identity crisis
• Plant Collector : Luculia gratissima “Early Dawn”
• Grow it yourself: strawberries
• Tikorangi Notes: Friday 15 June, 2012
• The sweet smell of daphne in winter
• Plant Collector: Chamaecyparis obtusa ‘Caespitosa’
• Grow it yourself: European radishes
• Tikorangi Notes: Friday June 8, 2012
• In praise of ornamental oxalis (or wood sorrel, if you prefer)
• In the garden this fortnight: June 7, 2012
• Outdoor Classroom – pruning roses
• The Bad Tempered Gardener from the Welsh borderlands
• Grow it Yourself: Cavolo nero (Tuscan black kale)
• Plant Collector: Picea albertiana 'Conica'
• Organic Gardening Bible by Bob Flowerdew
• Tikorangi Notes: Friday June 1, 2012
• A blue as blue verbascum. Apparently.
• Plant Collector: Nerine bowdenii
• Grow it yourself: bay tree
• Tikorangi notes: Friday 25 May, 2012
• Reviewing our mixed borders
• Plant Collector: Iochroma grandiflorum
• Grow it yourself: rosemary
• In the Garden – May 24, 2012
• Outdoor Classroom: guide to garden mulches
• Tikorangi Diary, Friday 18 May, 2012
• Plant Collector: Cyclamen purpurascens
• Differing shades of organic gardening (akin to the sliding scale of vegetarianism)
• Grow it yourself: aubergines
• Tikorangi Notes: Friday 11 May, 2012
• In the Garden – May 10, 2012
• Outdoor Classroom: pruning raspberries, step by step
• Passing the sniff measurement test – fragrance in the garden
• Plant Collector: Metasequoia glyptostroboides
• Grow it yourself: cape gooseberries (Physalis peruviana)
• Tikorangi Notes: Friday May 4, 2012
• Plant Collector: Vireya Rhododendron Satan’s Gift
• Being thankful for gardening in a benign climate
• Grow it yourself: pumpkins
• The Jury vireya legacy – first published in the RHS Rhododendrons, Camellias and Magnolias 2012 yearbook
• Of naked ladies, autumn crocus and so-called autumn crocus.
• In the garden this fortnight: April 26, 2012
• Tikorangi Notes: Friday 27 April, 2011
• Garden assessment and the NZGT
• Plant Collector: Schefflera septulosa
• Grow it yourself: feijoas
• Outdoor Classroom: digging out large, clumping plants.
• Tikorangi Notes: Friday 20 April, 2012
• Plant Collector: Sasanqua camellia Crimson King
• Grow it yourself: kumara
• Tikorangi Notes: Friday April 13, 2012.
• Plant Collector – Oxalis massoniana
• Raised beds and to dig or not to dig, that is the question.
• Grow it Yourself: Broad Beans
• In the garden this fortnight: April 12, 2012
• Tikorangi Notes: Thursday 5 April, 2012
• Tarting up the veggie patch
• The Ornamental Edible Garden
• Brugmansia Noel’s Blush
• Grow it yourself: asparagus
• Tikorangi Diary: March 30, 2012
• Plant Collector- Lycoris aurea
• Please, value trees
• Grow it Yourself: Rocket
• In the garden this fortnight: Thursday 29 March, 2012
• Tikorangi Notes: Friday March 23, 2012
• Grow it Yourself: Ugni molinae
• Plant Collector: Clematis tangutica
• Lower maintenance gardening
• The Easy Fruit Garden by Clare Matthews
• The music of Mongolia
• Tikorangi Diary: Friday March 16, 2012
• Plant Collector: Norfolk Island Pine (Araucaria heterophylla)
• Grow it Yourself Fruit and Nuts by Andrew Steen
• "It is natural and plant-based so it must be safer and healthier, mustn't it?"
• Grow it yourself: onions
• Tikorangi Notes: Friday 9 March, 2012
• Plant Collector: Crinum moorei variegated
• Learning about lobelia
• Grow it yourself: cabbage
• An award, not a rum deal.
• An award, no less – as opposed to a rum deal.
• Tikorangi Notes: Friday March 2, 2012
• Gardening with grasses
• Deja vu
• More bad Penguin
• Tikorangi notes, Friday 24 February, 2012
• Summer is for lilies
• Plant Collector: Lepidozamia peroffskyana
• Grow it yourself: garlic
• In the garden this fortnight: Thursday 23 February, 2012
• Tikorangi Notes: Friday 17 February, 2011
• Lunar planting – your very own personal organiser
• "Easy Organic Gardening and Moon Planting" by Lyn Bagnall
• Plant Collector: Tecomanthe venusta
• Grow it Yourself – oregano and marjoram
• Tikorangi Diary: Friday 10 February, 2012
• From big picture gardening to small picture detail
• Plant Collector: Ulmus elegantissima “Jacqueline Hillier”
• Grow it yourself: spinach
• In the garden this fortnight: Thursday February 9, 2012
• Tikorangi Notes: Friday 3 February, 2012
• The battle with the water weeds
• Plant Collector – Pinus montezumae
• Grow it yourself: silver beet
• Welcome back to our resident gecko, Glenys
• Tikorangi Notes; Friday 27 January, 2012
• No. We do not have a Mediterranean climate here
• Plant Collector: Rhododendron diaprepes
• Grow it Yourself – Broccoli
• In the Garden this Fortnight: January 26, 2012
• Tikorangi Notes: Friday 20 January 2012
• Plant Collector: The golden-rayed lily of Japan (Lilium auratum)
• Of matters related to social class and social conscience
• Grow It Yourself: Cardoon
• Tikorangi – the new Texas?
• Tikorangi Notes: Friday 13 January, 2012
• Plant Collector: Cyanella capensis
• The Weird and Wonderful World of Show Vegetables
• Grow it Yourself – parsnips
• Tikorangi Notes: Friday January 6, 2012
• A Cautionary Tale about Excessive Rain (subtitled: The Bride Wore Orange)
• Plant Collector: Hydrangea Libelle
• Grow It Yourself: yams
• In the Garden: January 5, 2012
• Tikorangi Notes: Friday 30 December, 2011
• Plant Collector – Sprekelia formosissima
• Rata and pohutukawa – the metrosideros family
• Grow it Yourself (or not, in the case of American school lunch pizza)
• Tikorangi Notes: Friday 23 December, 2011
• Oh Christmas tree, oh Christmas tree…
• Plant Collector – Philadelphus
• Grow it yourself: basil
• Tikorangi Notes: Friday 16 December, 2011
• Gardening books that stand the test of time
• In the Garden: Friday December 16
• Plant Collector: Tetracentron sinense
• Grow It Yourself – leeks
• The DIY Christmas Tree – mark 2 (for 2011)
• Tikorangi Notes: Friday 9 December, 2011
• Plant Collector – Higo Iris
• The Tui NZ Flower Garden by Rachel Vogan
• A mast year for strawberries in the quest for semi self sufficiency here
• Grow it Yourself: Rhubarb
• Tikorangi Notes: Friday 2 December, 2011
• A love-hate relationship with roses
• In the Garden: December 2, 2011
• Plant Collector – Rosa Roseraie de l’Hay
• Grow It Yourself – capsicums
• Fruit by Mark Diacon
• Gardening is not exempt from fashion trends
• Tikorangi Notes: Friday November 25, 2011
• A New Zealand Guide to Growing Year Round by Dennis Greville
• Plant Collector: Dracophyllum latifolium (or neinei)
• 100 Gardens by Jamie Durie.
• Grow it Yourself – melons
• Tikorangi Notes: Friday 18 November, 2011
• Plant Collector: Geranium maderense
• What is in a name? Quite a bit, sometimes.
• Salads Year-Round. A Planting Guide by Dennis Greville
• Grow It Yourself – carrots
• In The Garden: November 18, 2011
• Fairy Magnolia Blush picked for success in Australia
• On the case with Grandma’s violets (subtitled: it is hard to find the perfect groundcover).
• Tikorangi Notes: November 11, 2011
• Plant Collector: Hippeastrum papilio
• So you want to open your garden to the public?
• Grow It Yourself – Parsley
• Cordyline Red Fountain receives high praise in Australia.
• In the Garden: November 4, 2011
• Tikorangi Notes: Saturday 5 November, 2011
• Plant Collector – Azalea mollis
• Garden fashion – from designer trend to cliche
• GIY – Lettuces
• Tikorangi Notes: Friday October 28, 2011
• Garden design – a starting point
• Plant Collector: Scadoxus puniceus
• Grow it Yourself: dwarf beans
• Simple Ideas to Import (from Spain and Portugal)
• Tikorangi Notes: Friday 21 October, 2011
• Bring back plants! Please.
• Plant Collector: Arisaema sikokianum
• Grow it Yourself: gherkins and cucumbers
• Tikorangi Notes: Friday October 14, 2011
• Rhododendon johnstoneaum “Ken Burns”
• The latest take on living sustainably
• Grow it Yourself – beetroot
• Tikorangi Diary Thursday 13 October, 2011
• Tikorangi Notes: Tuesday 11 October, 2011
• Cyrtanthus falcatus
• Garden maintenance, sustainability or just garden grooming?
• Grow It Yourself: Potatoes
• Tikorangi Notes, Friday 30 September, 2010
• Plant Collector: Magnolia Athene
• New Zealand’s Native Trees by John Dawson and Rob Lucas
• The differing agendas of gardeners, novices and designers
• GIY Sweetcorn
• In Praise of Plunging
• Plant Collector: Tropaeolum tricolorum
• Yates Vegetable Garden by Rachel Vogan.
• Managing meadows or drifts of bulbs
• Grow it Yourself: Peas
• Tikorangi Notes: Friday 23 September, 2011
• Tikorangi Notes: Friday 16 September, 2011
• Plant Collector – Camellia chrysantha
• Trees for Small Gardens
• Grow it yourself: Bok Choy or Pak Choi
• Tikorangi Diary: Thursday 16 September 2011
• Tikorangi Diary, September 9, 2011
• Plant Collector – Prunus campanulata
• Blighted!
• Grow it Yourself – Florence fennel or finocchio
• The constructions at Paloma
• A Sign of the Times
• Tikorangi Notes: August 27, 2011
• Buxus alternatives for garden hedges
• Ideas to Import
• Tikorangi Diary: Thursday August 25, 2011
• Dividing calanthe orchids
• Tikorangi Diary: Thursday August 18
• A short lesson in hooping, no less
• Snow!
• Tikorangi Notes: Thursday August 12, 2011
• HRH Queen Elizabeth is presented with Magnolia Black Tulip
• Winter? Who says it is still winter? Tikorangi Notes: August 4, 2011
• Late winter equals magnolias here
• Tikorangi Notes: Thursday July 29, 2011
• Tikorangi Notes: July 18, 2010
• So much for clean and green….
• Tikorangi Notes: Sunday 10 July, 2011
• Prole drift in New Zealand gardening
• Tikorangi Diary: Friday 8 July, 2011
• Growing garlic
• Ornithological bickering and squabbling
• Tikorangi Notes: Sunday 26 June, 2011
• Tikorangi Diary: Sunday June 25, 2011
• Meet Hedwhig the Morepork
• Growing Citrus in the Home Orchard – our Taranaki Experience
• Tikorangi Notes: June 19, 2011
• Tikorangi Garden Diary: Sunday 19 June, 2011
• Tikorangi Notes: Sunday 12 June, 2011
• Introducing Roma Red – our latest camellia
• Tikorangi Garden Diary: Sunday 12 June, 2011
• Tikorangi Notes: Monday 6 June, 2011
• What does your lawn say about you?
• Plants that Delight
• Tikorangi Garden Diary number 2, June 3, 2011
• Garden Diary – the first entry May 28, 2010
• Tikorangi Notes: Friday 27 May, 2011
• The end of an era – but another door will open
• You can design your own
• Tikorangi Notes: Friday 20 May, 2011
• The Sequel – a second coming for the Tui NZ Fruit Garden
• Plant Collector: Podocarpus henkelii
• In the Garden this Week: May 20, 2011
• Coming Friday: the verdict on the Sequel
• Tikorangi Notes: Sunday 15 May, 2011
• Plant Collector: Camellia sasanqua Early Pearly
• In the Garden this week: Friday 13 May, 2011
• Outdoor classroom – rejuvenating tired perennial patches
• Tikorangi Notes: Friday 6 May, 201
• Breaking the Mould of the Modern New Zealand Garden – the Dreams at Paloma
• Plant Collector – Taxodium ascendans "Nutans"
• In the garden this week: May 6, 2011
• Tikorangi Notes: Friday 29 April, 2011
• Plant Collector: Vireya Rhododendron Rio Rita
• In the garden this week: Friday April 29, 2011
• Renovating old camellia plants: step-by-step
• Tikorangi Notes: Monday April 25, 2011
• Tikorangi Notes: Saturday 23 April, 2011
• Paradise Found in New South Wales
• Plant Collector: Ilex cornuta “Burfordii” and Raphiolepsis indica “Enchantress”
• In the Garden this week: Saturday 23 April, 2011
• Tikorangi Notes: Friday 15 April, 2010
• Plant Collector: Rhopalostylis sapida
• In the garden this week: Friday 15 April, 2011
• Tikorangi Notes:
• Relearning the old ways while getting to grips with new technology
• Plant Collector: Oxalis purpurea alba
• In the garden this week: April 8, 2011
• Plant Collector – Camellia sinensis
• Tikorangi Notes: Friday, April 1, 2011
• In the Garden: Friday 1 April, 2011
• Fifty Plants that Changed the Course of History, by Bill Laws.
• The Jury rhododendron legacy – first published in the RHS Rhododendrons, Camellias and Magnolias 2011 yearbook
• Tikorangi notes: Friday 25 March, 2010
• Plant Collector – brugmansia
• In the garden this week: March 25, 2011
• Family bonding in Canberra gardens and landscape
• Bromeliads for the Contemporary Garden by Andrew Steens
• Tikorangi Notes: Friday, March 18, 2011
• Plant Collector: Frangipani
• In the Garden this week: March 18, 2011
• Redoing the strawberry patch step-by-step with Abbie and Mark Jury.
• Plant Collector: Castanospermum australe
• Learning to garden with shade – the woodland
• In the Garden: March 11, 2011
• Tikorangi Notes: Friday March 4, 2011
• Does credibility and reputation count for nothing these days, or does Penguin just think we have short memories?
• Plant Collector: Alcantarea regina
• In the Garden: March 4, 2011
• Tikorangi Notes: Friday 25 February, 2011
• Summer meadow gardens (and why they don't work here)
• Plant Collector: Haemanthus coccineus
• In the Garden: February 25, 2011
• Making cold compost step by step (part 3 of 3)
• Tikorangi notes: Friday 18 February, 2011
• Plant Collector: Worsleya procera
• Gecko update
• In the Garden: February 18, 2010
• Destroying wasp nests – step-by-step
• In memory of Christmas 2010
• Tikorangi Notes: Friday 11 February, 2011
• Wildlife in the garden – New Zealand style
• Plant Collector: Amaryllis belladonna
• In the Garden: February 11, 2011
• Plant Collector – Helichrysum Silver Cushion
• In the garden this week: February 4, 2010
• Agapanthus -the blue (and white) stars of our summer roadsides
• Tikorangi Notes: Friday 28 January, 2010
• Plant Collector: disa orchids
• In the Garden this week: January 28, 2011
• Plant Collector – auratum lilies
• Tikorangi Notes: Friday 21 January, 2011
• In the Garden: January 21, 2011
• Make your own compost hot mix, step-by-step (part two of three)
• Make your own compost step-by-step guide: part one (of three parts)
• Tikorangi notes: Friday 14 January, 2011
• The New Zealand Garden – is there such a thing?
• In the Garden this week: January 14, 2011
• Tikorangi Notes: Friday January 7, 2011
• Plant Collector: Schima wallichii subsp. noronhae (probably)
• In the Garden: January 7, 2011
• A laissez-faire approach to summer care for apple trees
• Tried and True – Helleborus orientalis
• Tikorangi notes: December 31, 2010
• Plant Collector: Cordyline petiolaris
• Decoding the jargon
• In the Garden: Friday December 31, 2010
• Plant Collector: Lilium regale
• Tikorangi notes: Friday December 24, 2010
• Construct your own Christmas tree (version one)
• In the Garden this week: Friday December 24, 2010
• Plant Collector: Cornus kousa var. chinensis
• Tikorangi Notes: Friday 17 December, 2010
• The pitfalls and perils of garden water features
• In the Garden this Week: December 17, 2010
• Tikorangi Notes: Friday 10 December
• Plant Collector: Dactylorhiza maculata
• In the garden this week: December 10, 2010
• Dreamers of the Day: A History of Auckland’s Regional Parks, by Graeme Murdoch.
• Making a bamboo support or obelisk for climbing plants, step-by-step with Abbie and Mark Jury
• Tikorangi Notes: Friday 3 December
• Ficus antiarus, rare plants and why only one plant in our garden is clearly named
• Plant Collector: Sarracenia
• In the Garden: December 3, 2010
• Book review: A Green Granny’s Garden, by Fionna Hill.
• Tikorangi Notes: Friday 26 November 2010
• Plant Collector: Tecomanthe montana
• In the Garden this week: November 26, 2010
• A step-by-step guide to staking and tying plants
• Tikorangi Notes: Friday, 19 November 2010
• The Moorish Gardens of Andalucian Spain
• Plant Collector: Manfreda maculosa
• In the Garden this week: November 19, 2010
• Plant Collector: Jovellana punctata
• Tikorangi Notes: Friday 12 November, 2010
• In the Garden: November 12, 2010
• Hosta combinations that work: step-by-step
• Tikorangi Notes, Friday November 5, 2010
• My unlikely global study of outdoor furniture made from polyester resin ends in the face of corporate takeover
• Plant Collector: Rhododendron Loderi Venus
• In the Garden this Week: November 5, 2010
• The Final Countdown to Festival for 2010, Friday November 5
• Tried and True: Lachenalia aloides
• Tikorangi Notes: Friday October 29, 2010
• Plant Collector: Rhododendron Floral Legacy
• Countdown to Festival: October 29, 2010
• In the Garden this week: October 29, 2010
• Outdoor Classroom – Rhododendrons: common problems and solutions
• Tikorangi Notes: Saturday 23 October, 2010
• Rococo Gardening in Portugal
• Plant Collector – Syringia palibiniana
• In the Garden: October 22, 2010
• Countdown to Festival, October 22, 2010
• Tikorangi Notes: Friday October 15, 2010
• Plant Collector – Hippeastrum aulicum
• In the Garden this Week – October 15, 2010
• Countdown to Festival: October 15, 2010
• Not all wheelbarrows are equal
• Tried and True: Ligularia reniformis
• A hot, dry autumn in Spain and Portugal
• In the garden this week: October 8, 2010
• Plant Collector: Anopterus glandulosa
• Plant Collector: Calanthe orchids
• In the garden this week: October 1, 2010
• Propagating cordylines: step-by step guide
• Plant Collector: Magnolia Serene
• Just as well we don't need yew wood for longbows here
• In the garden this week: September 24, 2010
• Plant Collector: Edgeworthia gardneri
• In the garden this week: September 17, 2010
• Countdown to Festival: September 17, 2010
• Abbie Jury and Chris Sorensen make a simple worm farm
• Tikorangi Notes: Tuesday 14 September 2010
• Plant Collector: Tulipa saxatilis
• Tikorangi Notes: Friday September 10, 2010
• Taking a second look at camellias as garden plants
• In the Garden this week: September 10, 2010
• Countdown to Festival, September 10, 2010
• Tikorangi Notes: September 3, 2010
• Plant Collector – reticulata camellias
• In the garden this week: September 3, 2010
• Countdown to Festival, September 3
• Outdoor Classroom: Moving large plants, a step-by-step guide
• Camellia Diary 5, August 29, 2010
• Latest posts, Friday August 27, 2010:
• Plant Collector: Rhododendron veitchianum
• Learning from the Old Country – the appeal of traditional English crafts
• In the Garden: August 27, 2010
• Countdown to Festival August 27, 2010
• Tried and True: vireya rhododendrons Jiminy Cricket, Saxon Glow and Saxon Blush
• Tried and True: Crassula ovata or the Jade Plant
• Tikorangi Notes – a blue sky day in Taranaki
• Tikorangi Notes: August 21, 2010
• Tikorangi notes: Friday August 20, 2010
• Plant Collector – double hellebores
• In the Garden: August 20, 2010
• Grow it Yourself Vegetables, by Andrew Steens.
• Planting an easy-care hanging basket of succulents: step-by-step with Abbie Jury and Chris Sorensen
• Plant Collector: Magnolia Lanarth
• Tikorangi notes: August 13, 2010
• In the Garden: August 13, 2010
• Beware the bangalow (Arcontophoenix cunninghamiana)
• Tried and True: Tree Dahlias
• Countdown to Festival: August 13, 2010
• Tikorangi notes: August 6, 2010
• Plant Collector: Illicum simonsii
• In the Garden: Friday August 6, 2010
• Renovating a lawn: step-by-step guide
• Our annual plant sale
• Tikorangi notes: July 30, 2010
• Plant collector: Agapetes serpens
• All Gardeners Dream
• In the Garden: July 30, 2010
• Countdown to Festival, July 30, 2010
• Camellia Diary 4, July 27, 2010
• Tikorangi Notes
• The Plant Collector: Lachenalia reflexa
• In the Garden: July 23, 2010
• Tried and True – heucheras
• Winter pruning apple trees: step-by-step guide Abbie Jury and Colin Spicer
• Tikorangi Notes: July 20, 2010
• Tikorangi notes: Friday 16 July
• Flowering this week: Rhododendron cubittii
• It doesn't have to be all or nothing – using native plants in our gardens
• Cranberry Update
• In the Garden: Friday July 16
• Flowering this week: Vireya rhododendron saxifragoides
• Tikorangi Notes: Friday July 9, 2010
• In the Garden: Friday 9 July, 2010
• Countdown to Festival, July 9, 2010
• Camellia Diary number 3: July 3, 2010
• Tikorangi Notes: July 2, 2010
• Flowering this week: Cyclamen coum ssp. caucasicum
• A letter from a ratepayer
• In the Garden: July 2, 2010
• Taranaki Regional Gardens: Part 1. First published December 2004
• Taranaki Regional Gardens: Part 2. First published 19/1/05
• And part 3 of Taranaki Regional Gardens. Date of original publication uncertain but around 2005
• Tried and True – Camellia Mimosa Jury
• Tikorangi notes: June 25, 2010
• In the Garden: June 25, 2010
• Flowering this week: Aloe thraskii
• Outdoor Classroom – Winter pruning Hydrangea macrophylla
• Tikorangi Notes: June 18, 2010
• Correspondence from Rewi Alley and holding back the encroaching deserts in China's northwest in the early 1950s
• Flowering this week: Dombeya burgessiae
• In the Garden: June 18, 2010
• Countdown to Festival – June update
• Tikorangi Notes: June 11, 2010
• In the garden this week: June 11, 2010
• Flowering this week: Camellia lutchuensis
• Flowering this week: Luculia pinceana Fragrant Pearl
• Tikorangi Notes – June 4, 2010
• There are no shortcuts when it comes to notable trees in the landscape
• In the Garden: June 4, 2010
• Tikorangi Notes: 28 May, 2010
• In the Garden: May 28, 2010
• Flowering this week: Backhousia citriodora
• Tried and True – loropetalums
• Getting the best from bananas in marginal conditions – step-by-step with Abbie and Mark Jury
• The Jury Plants – Cordyline Red Fountain
• A Worm's Tale
• Tikorangi Notes: May 21, 2010
• The perils of the monochromatic colour scheme in gardening
• Flowering this week: Dichroa versicolor
• Countdown to Festival: May 21 ,2010
• In the garden: May 21, 2010
• Tried and True – sasanqua camellias
• Tikorangi Notes: May 14, 2010
• Flowering this week: Moraea polystachya
• In the Garden this week: May 14, 2010
• Threatened Plants of New Zealand
• Tried and True – vireya rhododendrons
• Pruning a rampant climber: step-by-step with Abbie and Mark Jury
• Camellia Diary – the second entry. May 13, 2010
• Tikorangi notes: May 6, 2010
• The Tui NZ Fruit Garden – dear oh dear.
• Front page of the morning paper, no less.
• Plant of the week – Farfugium japonicum argenteum
• In the Garden – May 7, 2010
• Tikorangi notes: April 30, 2010
• Flowering this week: Gordonia yunnanensis
• In the Garden: April 30, 2010
• Tikorangi notes: April 23, 2010
• Flowering this week: Nerine sarniensis hybrids
• There is life beyond buxus hedging
• In the garden this week: April 23, 2010
• Countdown to Festival, April 2010
• Tikorangi notes: April 16, 2010
• Flowering this week – our rather rampant bougainvillea
• In the Garden – April 16, 2010
• Alternatives to buxus hedging
• Tikorangi notes: Thursday 15 April, 2010
• Tikorangi notes: April 9, 2010
• No bletting the chaenomeles in our climate
• In the garden this week: April 9, 2010
• Camellia diary – the first entry April 7, 2010
• Flowering this week: Camellia brevistyla
• Tikorangi notes: April 6, 2010
• In the garden: April 1, 2010
• Clipping formal hedges – step-by-step with Abbie Jury & Lloyd Sorensen
• Flowering this week: Colchicum autumnale
• Tikorangi notes: March 26, 2010
• The myth of the mixed border
• In the Garden: March 19, 2010
• Tikorangi Notes: March 19, 2010
• Flowering this week: Lapageria alba
• In the garden: March 19, 2010
• Lifting & limbing – the before and after of careful pruning
• Tikorangi Notes: March 12, 2010
• Flowering this week – Rhodophiala bifida
• In the garden: March 12, 2010
• A tale of the future of Pukeiti Rhododendron Trust and ratepayer money.
• In the Garden, March 5, 2010
• Tikorangi notes 5/3/2010
• Flowering this week: Angelica gigas
• Autumn chip budding: step-by-step with Abbie and Mark Jury
• Tikorangi notes 26/2/2010
• Monarch caterpillars and butterflies – a mid-life obsession that is safer than a Harley Davidson
• Flowering this week: Justicia carnea
• In the garden – 26 February, 2010
• Tikorangi notes 24/2/2010
• Magnolia Diary 14, February 19, 2010
• Flowering this week: Michelia alba
• In the garden, February 19, 2010
• T-budding an apple tree: step-by-step with Abbie and Mark Jury
• The green breathing space
• Flowering this week: Scadoxus multiflorus ssp. katherinae
• In the garden, February 12, 2010
• In the garden, February 5, 2010
• Dividing bearded irises: step-by-step with Abbie and Mark Jury
• The Magical Carpet Garden
• Flowering this week: Eucomis or pineapple lily
• In the Garden January 29, 2010
• Flowering this week: anigozanthos, probably a flavidus hybrid.
• In the garden this week January 22, 2010
• Gathering seed: a step-by-step guide with Abbie and Mark Jury
• A Major Mission in the Rockery
• Flowering this week: Gloriosa superba
• In the garden this week January 15, 2010
• Flowering this week: Hydrangea Immaculata
• In the garden 08/01/2010
• Flowering this week: The San Pedro cactus or echinopsis pachanoi (syn. Trichocereus pachanoi)
• Crystal ball predictions for the 2010 gardening year
• In the garden 01/01/2010
• In the garden 18/12/2009
• Perennial cuttings: a step-by-step guide with Abbie and Mark Jury
• Tales of the Christmas Tree
• Flowering this week – Rodgersia aesculifolia
• In the garden 11/12/2009
• The case of the missing hedge clippers
• Flowering this week – meconopsis or Himalayan blue poppy
• In the garden 04/12/2009
• Pruning grapevines Pt:2: step-by-step with Abbie and Mark Jury
• Flowering this week – we still call it Urceolina peruviana
• Dining al fresco – furniture options
• In the Garden November 27, 2009
• Flowering this week – Kalmia latifolia “Ostbo Red”
• November 20, 2009 In the Garden
• Colourful Gardens by Dennis Greville
• Flowering this week – Arisaema dahaiense
• Taming the Wilderness – workshop notes
• The growing popularity of garden workshops
• Flowering this week: Eupatorium sordidum
• November 13, 2009 In the Garden
• Flowering this week – Olin and Caroline (rhododendrons of course)
• In the Garden 6 November 2009
• Growing vireya rhododendrons from cuttings: step-by-step with Abbie and Mark Jury
• 30 October, 2009 In the Garden – including the recipe for preserved lemons as promised in the Taranaki Daily News
• Rhododendron Yvonne Scott
• Maintaining social status if not economic value – the rhododendron in Taranaki
• The annual rhododendron advice (in brief)
• Flowering this week: Rhododendron Bernice
• 23 October, 2009 In the Garden This Week
• Pruning vireya rhododendrons: step-by-step guide with Abbie and Mark Jury
• Sculpture in the garden
• Flowering this week – Veltheimia
• October 16, 2009 In the Garden
• Flowering this week – Prunus Pearly Shadows
• October 9, 2008 In the Garden
• The New Zealand Plant Doctor, Andrew Maloy
• All About New Zealand Plants by Dave Gunson
• Flowering this week – bluebells and blue lachenalias
• Separating the genuine enthusiasts from candyfloss fashion gardening
• October 2, 2009 In the Garden
• Magnolia Diary 13, September 29, 2009
• Kurume azaleas
• September 25, 2009 In the Garden
• Plants to impress in English early summer gardens.
• Rhododendron Floral Sun
• September 18, 2009 In the Garden
• Magnolia Diary 12, 15 September 2009
• Flowering this week: Gladiolus tristis
• Prunus Awanui
• September 11, 2009 In the Garden
• Repotting container plants with Mark and Abbie Jury
• Magnolia Diary 11, 9 September 2009
• Magnolia diary 10, 7 September 2009
• More a murky khaki than clean and green
• Flowering this week – Magnolia Iolanthe
• September 4, 2009 In the Garden
• Magnolia Diary 9, 1 September 2009
• Magnolia Diary number 8, 29 August 2009
• Daphne genkwa – flowering this week
• August 28, 2009 In the Garden
• Yates Young Gardener Growing Things to Eat, by Janice Marriott
• And lovely is the rose, by Barbara Horn, illustrated by Sheila Galbraith
• Magnolia Diary number 7, 26 August 2009
• Magnolia Diary number 6, 23 August 2009
• Edgeworthia papyrifera and the monarch butterfly
• Rhododendron spinuliferum
• The appropriately named buxus blight
• August 21, 2009 In the Garden
• Magnolia Diary number 5, 19 August 2009
• Magnolia Diary number 4, 16 August, 2009
• Prunus campanulata
• August 14, 2009 In the Garden
• A step-by-step guide in creative camellias with Abbie Jury
• Magnolia Diary number 3, 13 August 2009
• Magnolia Diary number 2, 11 August 2009
• Magnolia diary the first, 9 August 2009
• Narcissus cyclamineus
• From meadows to motorway sidings with the classic border inbetween (part 4 English summer gardens)
• August 7, 2009 In the Garden
• July 31, 2009 In the Garden
• English Summer Gardens – Part 3
• In the garden this week July 24, 2009
• Lachenalia bulbifera
• July 17, 2009 In the Garden
• Pruning a grapevine
• English summer gardens – part 2
• Vireya rhododendron macgregoriae
• July 10, 2009 In the Garden
• In the Garden July 3, 2009
• How to dig and divide (hostas).
• Flowering this week: the early snowdrops
• In the Garden June 26, 2009
• Letter from England
• Flowering this week – tree hydrangea of uncertain classification
• In the Garden June 19, 2009
• Turning your $17.95 perennial into five plants
• Flowering this week: ornamental oxalis
• In search of summer gardens
• In the Garden June 12, 2009
• Flowering this week: Elfin Rose
• June 5, 2009 In the Garden
• Growing your citrus tree in a pot
• May 29, 2009 In the Garden
• May 22, 2009 In the Garden
• May 15, 2009 In the Garden
• Why we resigned from the New Zealand Gardens Trust
• Organics, baking soda and cooking oils
• May 8 2009 In the Garden
• May 1, 2009 In the Garden
• Avocados and figs in Taranaki
• April 24, 2009 In the Garden
• April 17, 2009 In the Garden
• Death to the Orangeberry Plant
• April 9 In the Garden this Week
• Cyclamen hederifolium
• April 3, 2009 In the garden this week
• Grow It Cook It
• The Oracle of Jury
• March 27, 2009 In the Garden
• March 20, 2009 In the Garden
• March 13, 2009 In the Garden
• When times get tough, the tough get gardening.
• March 6, 2009 In the Garden
• February 28 2009, In the Garden this Week
• In Praise of Kay Baxter's Work
• February 20, 2009 In the Garden
• The Missing Summer Savoury
• February 13, 2009 In the Garden
• February 6, 2009 In the Garden
• There were no zucchinis on "The Road to Ellerslie" but too many at home.
• January 31, 2009 In the Garden
• January 23, 2009 In the Garden
• January 16, 2009 In the Garden
• Survival Instincts
• In the Garden January 9, 2009
• Sustainability – the buzz word for 2009
• In the garden 02/01/2009
• In the garden 26/12/2008
• Battening down the garden for summer
• In the garden 18/12/2008
• In the garden 12/12/2008
• A Gardener's Christmas
• December 5, 2008 Weekly Garden Guide
• In the garden 28/11/2008
• The Elements of Organic Gardening
• I dream of hostas with a snail free leaf
• November 21, 2008 Weekly Garden Guide
• One Magic Square
• November 14, 2008 Weekly Garden Guide
• The view of the washing in the garden
• November 7, 2008 Weekly Garden Guide
• October 31, 2008 Weekly Garden Guide
• Italian Seeds Pronto
• October 24, 2008 Weekly Garden Guide
• In Praise of Pruning
• The Faber Book of Gardens
• The Artful Gardener
• October 17, 2008 Weekly Garden Guide
• From Noxious Weeds to Garden Games via Hollandaise Sauce and Seeds
• October 10, 2008 Weekly Garden Guide
• 400
• October 3, 2008 Weekly Garden Guide
• From Oranges in Sorrento to Lemons in Hawera with Moturoa School Inbetween
• September 26, 2008 Weekly Garden Guide
• September 19, 2008 Weekly Garden Guide
• Book reviews
• Sustainable gardening
• September 12, 2008 Weekly Garden Guide
• September 5, 2008 Weekly Garden Guide
• Growing Organics
• August 29, 2008 Weekly Garden Guide
• August 22, 2008 Weekly Garden Guide
• The Piazzas of Florence
• In Praise Of Plants
• August 15, 2008 Weekly Garden Guide
• August 8, 2008 Weekly Garden Guide
• Thinking Small in the Big Country
• August 1, 2008 Weekly Garden Guide
• July 25, 2008 Weekly Garden Guide
• Trouble with Buxus
• July 18, 2008 Weekly Garden Guide
• July 11, 2008 Weekly Garden Guide
• The Vireya Family
• July 4, 2008 Weekly Garden Guide
• In the garden 27/06/2008
• A Garden with a View (in Italy)
• June 20, 2008 Weekly Garden Guide
• June 13, 2008 Weekly Garden Guide
• Period Gardens
• Earl Grey or Assam?
• June 6, 2008 Weekly Garden Guide
• May 30, 2008 Weekly Garden Guide
• May 23, 2008 Weekly Garden Guide
• In Praise of Trees
• Spice Market
• May 16, 2008 Weekly Garden Guide
• May 9, 2008 Weekly Garden Guide
• Pick Preserve Serve
• Wildflowers and Meadow Gardens
• In the garden 02/05/2008
• In the garden 25/04/2008
• DEBBO
• April 18, 2008 Weekly Garden Guide
• April 11, 2008 Weekly Garden Guide
• Gardens and Vineyards in Marlborough
• Relish, Delicious Preserves for Modern Food
• April 4, 2008 Weekly Garden Guide
• Preparing for the next drought
• March 28, 2008 Weekly Garden Guide
• The Drift into Autumn
• March 14, 2008 Weekly Garden Guide
• March 7, 2008 Weekly Garden Guide
• February 29, 2008 Weekly Garden Guide
• The Hairdresser's Garden
• February 22, 2008 Weekly Garden Guide
• Doing the Bulbs
• February 15, 2008 Weekly Garden Guide
• February 8, 2008 Weekly Garden Guide
• In praise of monarchs
• February 1, 2008 Weekly Garden Guide
• January 25, 2008 Weekly Garden Guide
• January 19, 2008 Weekly Garden Guide
• Fame and Philadelphia
• January 11, 2008 Weekly Garden Guide
• Seasonal Fare
• January 4, 2008 Weekly Garden Guide
• Demystifying compost and muck
• December 28, 2007 Weekly Garden Guide
• The Lure of the Japanese Garden
• Letter to Elton
• December 21, 2007 Weekly Garden Guide
• December 14, 2007 Weekly Garden Guide
• Of owls, pigeons and glow in the dark piggies
• December 7, 2007 Weekly Garden Guide
• Get Fresh
• Yates Garden Guide 77th edition
• November 30, 2007 Weekly Garden Guide
• Real Gardening Real Easy. A practical guide for all New Zealand gardeners.
• Rainbow Festival?
• November 23, 2007 Weekly Garden Guide
• Garden in Style
• November 16, 2007 Weekly Garden Guide
• November 9, 2007 Weekly Garden Guide
• If you want it, you may have to produce it yourself
• November 2, 2007 Weekly Garden Guide
• Twenty years, no less.
• October 26, 2007 Weekly Garden Guide
• The Propagation of New Zealand Native Plants
• The Native Garden
• October 19, 2007 Weekly Garden Guide
• The Native Plant Garden
• The Jury Gospel on Garden Ornamentation
• Bromeliads The Connoisseur's Guide
• October 12, 2007 Weekly Garden Guide
• Mark releases vireya rhododendron Sweet Cherry
• October 5, 2007 Weekly Garden Guide
• The Magic of Monet’s Garden
• Where to Watch Birds in New Zealand
• September 28, 2007 Weekly Garden Guide
• Of Moss and Things
• 21 September, 2007 Weekly Garden Guide
• The Wild Green Yonder
• September 14, 2007 Weekly Garden Guide
• Magnolias – Number One in the Plant World
• September 7, 2007 Weekly Garden Guide
• Palms and Cycads
• Orchids, A Practical Guide to Care and Cultivation
• A tui in a cherry tree
• August 31, 2007 Weekly Garden Guide
• August 24, 2007 Weekly Garden Guide
• Maggie’s Garden Diary 2008
• Formality and informality – painting with plants versus formal design
• August 17, 2007 Weekly Garden Guide
• New Zealand Gardens of Significance
• August 10, 2007 Weekly Garden Guide
• The Self Sustaining Garden – the guide to matrix planting
• August 6, 2007 Weekly Garden Guide
• Listener Best Of NZ
• Living with an icon
• July 27, 2007 Weekly Garden Guide
• Hydrangeas
• In praise of finocchio
• July 20, 2007 Weekly Garden Guide
• July 13, 2007 Weekly Garden Guide
• Topiary in Moderation
• July 6, 2007 Weekly Garden Guide
• June 29, 2007 Weekly Garden Guide
• June 22, 2007 Weekly Garden Guide
• A Room With a View
• Royal New Zealand Institute of Horticulture (Inc.)
• June 15, 2007 In the Garden This Week
• Of Letters to Editors and Peter Rabbit
• June 8, 2007 In the Garden This Week
• June 1, 2007 In the Garden This Week
• May 25 2007 In the Garden This Week
• The Year of the Giant Tomato
• May 18 2007 In The Garden This Week
• A drift of bluebells, not a mass planting
• This week May 11 2007
• This week May 5 2007
• This week April 27 2007
• Times change
• There is no such thing as low maintenance gardening
• This week 6 April 2006
• This week 30 March 2007
• Womad and 48 000 people on grass
• This week 23 March 2007
• This week 16 March 2007
• Sustainability and all that
• This week 9 March 2007
• This week 2 March 2007
• The start of a new gardening year
• This week 23 February 2007
• This week 16 February 2007
• Of paris polyphylla and pedalling visitors
• This week 9 February 2007
• This week 2 February 2007
• Music to watch gardens by
• This week 26 January 2007
• This week 19 January 2007
• Of pohutukawa and pineapples
• This week 12 January 2007
• This week 5 January 2007
• The New Zealand gardening style
• This week 29 Dec 2006
• This week 22 Dec 2006
• The Good, The Bad and the Ugly
• This week 15 Dec 2006
• This week 8 Dec 2006
• This week 8 Dec 2006
• A love affair with poppies
• This week 24 Nov 2006
• Buying some controversy
• This week 17 Nov 2006
• This week 10 Nov 2006
• This week 3 Nov 2006
• This week 27 Oct 2006
• In praise of vulgar flower power
• This week 20 Oct 2006
• This week 13 Oct 2006
• Gardening in Greece
• This week 6 Oct 2006
• This week 29 Sept 2006
• From London
• This week 22 Sept 2006
• This week 15 Sept 2006
• This week 8 Sept 2006
• This week 1 Sept 2006
• Buyer Beware or Out of Control Lawnmowing Contractors
• This week 25 Aug 2006
• This week 18 Aug 2006
• Glam Gardening with a Nod to Things Italianate
• This week 11 Aug 2006
• This week 4 August 2006
• The ever popular daphnes
• This week July 28 2006
• This week July 21 2006
• Soil compaction
• Gardening as a treasure hunt
• The winter garden
• From guerilla gardening to perennials and spring
• The latest gardening challenge
• Birds in the garden
• Somewhat exotic fruits
• Beach bunnies are gone now autumn is here
• The Look
• The International World of Bulbs
• Gardening in the Pacifica style
• The Power Company School of Garden Design
• Fruits of the Earth
• The lawn as a political statement
• Rock speakers and summer gardens
• A tale of a fallen tree
• Collective Nouns and other Trivia
• Mothers' diaries, space and silver birches
• Mothers’ diaries, space and silver birches
• Large gardens, small gardens and silver beet
• Gnomes, spring planting and Old Money
• Deadheading, roses and gardening diaries
• Of Pee, Cloud Pruning & Landscaping versus Great Gardening
• Of Camellias and Drug Raids
• Roses and responsibilities
• A sense of spring in the air
• Going potty over camellias
• Comfortable in a cold climate
• Gardens of National Significance
• Designers need a reality check
• Container gardening: A survival course
• Gold at Chelsea Flower Show
• It doesn't have to be like this
• It doesn’t have to be like this