Get those greens going this winter. Janice Marriott shares some tips.

The Christchurch Botanic Gardens' Life and Death garden exhibit takes the top award at this year's Ellerslie International Flower Show.

The gold and supreme award-winners from this year's show.

Picking your own produce is all about timing and technique.

The weather has been kind in the run-up to this year's Ellerslie Flower Show, and the organisers are confident they can build on the success of last year's show.

If you've depleted your salad crops and tomatoes and gobbled all the beans, it's time to plant again. This time in the shade.

Rhubarb is a wonderful addition to any garden.

Avocados are easy to grow - but the stone's only good for foliage.

When Jackie Michelmore and her husband bought a derelict mussel works on the banks of an estuary, their friends thought they might have been drinking the seawater and gone a bit mad.

Perseverance paid off when Samantha Hayes jumped on the garden bandwagon.

Cucumbers are the perfect plant for the summer party season.

Get in touch with the artistry of nature at the Stoneleigh Sculpture in the Gardens exhibition.

Vegetables grow better behind shelter but a windbreak doesn't have to be conventional.

New Zealand's first ever green wall, consisting of more than 1000 plants, has been created inside a new salon.

Ngati Whatua has given up part of its land at Bastion Point for homeless people to grow vegetables for the City Mission's foodbank.

A New Zealand couple have produced the first vanilla crop outside the tropics.