NZ Gardener - 1 Jun 2025
FRESH IS BEST
+18 NEW FABULOUS ROSES
• The restoration of a Blueskin Bay native plant paradise
• A Pirongia food forest boasting more than 200 different fruiting plants
A delightful Inglewood garden with its own yoga pad, outdoor meditation room & hobbit hole!
WINTER RECIPES
• Has a remarkable new avocado variety been found in Nelson?
HOW TO
HOUSE PLANTS
BELOVED BRASSICAS – New cultivars and new ways of living are changing the brassicas that we grow in the winter garden.
TOP & FLOP CROPS - What did well and what didn’t in Lynda Hallinan’s Hunua garden this month.
HEALING HAVEN - From trauma to salvation: an amazing Inglewood garden full of unique details.
SENSE OF RENEWAL - A garden of native plants link the past and the present near Dunedin.
ROSE CARE - The ultimate guide, from soil and watering to sprays and maintenance regime.
VEGE PATCH TO-DO LIST - Moon calendar, maramataka, and jobs in the edible garden.
MAN’S WORLD - Joe Bennett improves trans-Tasman relations.
EDITORIAL - Jo McCarroll loses her lawn in her big garden makeover.
NEW ROSES OF 2025 - Jo McCarroll’s pick of the new-releases.
SOIL FOR HOUSEPLANTS - The right mix for your indoor beauty’s needs.
EVENTS - Gardening events on near you.
DIY - Hardwood chopping board.
SEASONAL RECIPES - Kiwifruit.
MAILBOX - Letters from our readers.
YOUR RECIPES - Limes.
YATES FRUIT TREE
365 DAYS OF FLOWERS
SUBSCRIPTION OFFER
PRUNING MADE EASY
AUCKLAND - Learn the uses of forest resources with this park ranger.
TE PUKE - Garden festival stalwarts encourage a new generation to start showing.
WAIKATO - The food forest celebrating heritage - and heritage varieties.
NORTHLAND - A couple create their dream garden after a life at sea.
WHANGANUI - When you don’t really have to rotate your crops.
WELLINGTON - A fabric artist’s view of the botanic garden.
WEST COAST - Growing fruit in this challenging region takes planning.
SOUTHLAND - Even in the forest garden, there are inflection points.
NELSON – An avocado tree and the man who kept talking about it.
DUNEDIN - Just like people, when plants persevere, they thrive.
Losing the lawn
No hungry caterpillars
Hang in there, Lynda
Happy birthday to me!
Win Palmers reusable bags
Our ‘Monty’s Surprise’ tree is in its second year, and we’ve had an amazing crop with huge crisp apples. On keeping, the fruit does become rather soft but it is fine for cooking.
grow your own
grow your own
JUNE
What to sow and plant in the edible garden in June
There’s less light around in winter
SOW & GROW
What will I grow under my fruit trees?
WIN A YATES FRUIT TREE CLEANUP PACK
Gardening by the maramataka
Grow better brassicas
Grow better brassicas
How to grow better brassicas
BRASSICA VARIETY GUIDE
June TOP & FLOP CROPS
all about kiwifruit
all about kiwifruit
Chocolate-dipped dried kiwifruit
Chocolate-dipped dried kiwifruit
More recipe ideas for kiwifruit
lovely LIMES
Lime & Coconut Delights
Lime & Coconut Delights
Hardwood CHOPPING BOARD
Hardwood CHOPPING BOARD
people & plants
people & plants
Healing haven
Healing haven
Garden plan
Expert tips
Sense of renewal
Sense of renewal
Expert tips
Garden plan
Best new ROSES
Best new ROSES
Coming up ROSES
Coming up ROSES
Tips for minimising spraying
ROSE DISEASES SPRAY CHART
ROSE PEST SPRAY CHART
OLDER CULTIVAR PREVENTATIVE
The dirt on indoor GROWING MIX
ANNA GERVAI
Garden ahoy!
Garden ahoy!
Taonga from the forest
Grow these in your garden
MEI LENG WONG
LEGACY Fruitful
JANE WRIGGLESWORTH
What a show
What a show
Showing your garden?
SANDRA SIMPSON
WORKS What really
PHIL THOMSEN
Sew pretty
DR CLARE GLEESON
Garden discovery
BRITT COKER
bearing fruit
bearing fruit
ABY CHALMERS
point of difference
point of difference
MARGARET BARKER
nearly THERE
ROBERT GUYTON
what’s on
JOE BENNETT
Man down under
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