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Autumn Seed Sowing Guide | Vegetables & Flowers to Sow in Autumn

Seed sowing is one of the most important jobs in the autumn garden. It’s time to sow winter vegetables and hardy annual flowers. This autumn seed sowing guide outlines what to sow in your autumn garden and the methods you can use to guarantee successful germination.

How-to, Plants

How to grow & dry flowers for dried flower arrangements

The complete guide to dried flowers: How to grow, dry & arrange with dried flowers. Including three unique dried flower projects you can work on using the dried florals from your garden.

Books, Plants

How to find and indentify fungi forms

The macro fungi we have here in Aotearoa — the big fungi you can see with your own eyes — come in many different forms. Here's a list of 12 of the big groups to get you started.

Wellington Garden | Secret Gardens of NZ

Books, Gardens

Wellington Garden | Secret Gardens of Aotearoa

Since buying their Lower Hutt property in 2021, Jacob and Lucy have wasted no time rethinking and designing their site and putting their self-sufficiency plans into action. Two years on, the 3000 square-metre-section is almost unrecognisable.

Jared Lockhart Design - New North Road, Auckland

Gardens

The Chambers commercial courtyard | Jared Lockhart Design

In this sleek garden courtyard, simplicity reigns supreme. Jared Lockhart has carefully curated elements for this landscape design that add a touch of modernity to the heritage-listed building.

Gardens

Mountains & mānuka | Olivia Bird Design

For this Wānaka home, maintaining the surrounding views of the mountains as well as having a private living space was the priority.

Gardens

The creation of a country cottage garden | Ashley James Gardens

This enchanting garden transports you to a world of romance and tranquillity. Nestled in the heart of the countryside, the picturesque cottage garden is surrounded by lush perennial plantings, creating a haven of natural beauty.

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FEBRUARY — Gardening Guide

February is still an exciting and rewarding time for harvesting your summer edibles. Now's the time to start clearing out some of the overgrown jungle that was your summer crop, giving your veggie garden some space to get growing its autumn and winter crops. You can even start thinking about planting your spring bulbs!

Gardens

Cloudy & contemporary — A timeless, lawnless Melbourne garden

An entrance way garden that gives visitors a reason to stop, and take a moment to breathe, before stepping through the front door.

Designed by BWLA.

Gardens

Te Whare Māra: The Garden House — Pōneke Wellington

Te Whare Māra - The Garden House - blurs the lines between landscape and architecture. This Wellington garden exemplifies landscape design that boasts beauty, sustainability and meaningful spaces to inhabit and enjoy.

Designed by local.

Books, Recipe

Recipe | Fruity Sangria

One of Kelsi Boocock's favourite cocktails — She loves this recipe from her cookbook because it's packed with so much fruit and leaves you feeling so refreshed!

Books, Recipe

Recipe | Gado Gado-style Salad

Kelsi Boocock's (Healthy Kelsi), adaptation of this Indonesian classic. Super crunchy, sweet and nutty - the combination of potatoes, tofu and peanut sauce is delicious.

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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.

Autumn Seed Sowing Guide | Vegetables & Flowers to Sow in Autumn

How to grow & dry flowers for dried flower arrangements

How to find and indentify fungi forms

Wellington Garden | Secret Gardens of Aotearoa

The Chambers commercial courtyard | Jared Lockhart Design

Mountains & mānuka | Olivia Bird Design

The creation of a country cottage garden | Ashley James Gardens

FEBRUARY — Gardening Guide

Cloudy & contemporary — A timeless, lawnless Melbourne garden

Te Whare Māra: The Garden House — Pōneke Wellington

Recipe | Fruity Sangria

Recipe | Gado Gado-style Salad

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